Berry berry good

At last, all the blueberries have been harvested! What a contrast to last year's crop.

I can't complain about last year, though. Really, it was the bushes' first time putting out flowers and fruit, and it always takes blueberries a bit of time to rev up production.

But this year – wow. Just wow.

Now that the harvest is finished, I had a chance to weigh what we got (basically, four gallons).

On the left is the little quart bag with last year's harvest, dwarfed by this year's crop.

Last year: one pound.

After weighing and tallying each bag of this year's crop...

...the total came to sixteen pounds! Literally sixteen times what we got last year!

Of course, next I did what any passionate canner would do: I canned them up, combining both last year's and this year's berries.

I washed jars and made a thin syrup.

Mid-production.

Final tally: Fifteen quarts.

I anticipate lots of blueberry pies this winter. Berry berry good.