threemeninaboat | For the birds

I was out watering the yard yesterday and heard the birds making noises I hadn't heard before. "What in the hell are they talking about?" I thought. I went to over to that corner of my yard and found that my Red Mulberry tree had fruited. It has been a few years since it has fruited so I was pretty excited. Mulberries are awesome. I ate a few fistfulls and went to find

randomdreams. We filled the bowl with enough to make pancakes the next morning. Today we went out and ate some more. Should be a few days left.
Mulberries are medium sized trees and we only get the low fruit, the birds get the rest.
The green fruits are reputedly hallucinogenic, but I haven't tried.

Urban foraging is one of my favorite hobbies. The Floral Shop at the end of the block has 2 cherry trees LOADED with sour cherries. Part of one of the trees hangs over the church property. We knocked on the florist's door to ask permission to pick the cherries but they weren't in so we just picked cherries from the church side. We pulled about 3lbs off and didn't even make a dent.
It took me about an episode of RadioLab (Guts) to pit all the cherries, they are cooking down now into jam which we will have with fresh goat cheese and warm bread for a midnight snack.