MaJoC I grew up in the Pacific NW where it was easy to find wild blueberries and huckleberries, but the commercial ones are huge in comparison. Not as flavorful, but ok. The organic ones are much better for you, as with most produce.

The first summer I worked for the Forest Service I was also getting credit toward a forestry degree and the afternoon my partner and I watched a VW beetle drive up a logging road was memorable. Not a usual sight in a world of pickups and logging and gravel trucks. When it parked nearby and a 6'5" guy unrolled himself from the front seat I recognized my friend and professor. We were surveying new tree growth in a clear cut area that was a few years out from harvest, and it was also full of successional blueberry bushes and other plants that come back after logging or a forest fire. He was most impressed that as we worked we kept picking berries for ourselves but were also keeping an eye on a black bear on the other side of the unit who had no intention of giving up the blueberries to the two people out there walking around. When bears eat they use their front feet like hands and rake the berries off of the branches running between the fingers and straight into their mouths. He told me later that was the most entertaining of all of the internship visits he did that summer (I think he also took home a bag full of blueberries.)

I'll do one more shopping trip this afternoon and called the neighbor getting over flu, asking if she needs anything. It's a rough week coming up and I've moved the potted shrubs and small trees into the garage again.