Up at sunrise...
Pick up little sister... (and she's ready to go!)
Breakfast burritos and coffee to begin...
A long drive filled with talk and laughter - boys, school, more boys, more laughter... my own troubles are left far behind, and I am able to be fully present in her life, in the moment...
We arrive and spend a few hours in this...
Yes, the UPickIt field of raspberries. Heaven. Literal heaven. The field worker flirting and warning us not to eat too much (but they don't watch, we try not to be lil piggies), the rows are slightly squishy from the rain during the week, but the weather today is divine - not a cloud in the sky, a light breeze, the grasshoppers and bees have come out to play. And in this bright green field of orderly rows under a perfect blue sky, haphazard dots and dots and dots of raspberry red, just waiting for us...
Then when we've tasted and picked 4 pounds and wandered the property and visited the store and picked 4 more pounds, we drive home. We stop for ice cream as lunch, and we play the banana game (slap your friend in the arm if you see the yellow car first, and shout "banana!") and we add an orange car variant and we listen to new music and decide which we like....
I take her home and leave her with 4 pounds of raspberries, her little brother trying already to get at them, and then I drive home with my 4 pounds (let's guess how long they last... tomorrow? maybe the next day? if they're lucky...) and I carve oars and feel the sunburn start to sting on the back of my neck and think about making a raspberry charm... silver raspberries, how lovely that might be...
I believe heaven will be dripping with raspberries.
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