tart cherry time

neighbors have cherry trees and can't pick all the cherries. we have enthusiastic berry pickers and bakers in our family, but no cherry trees. when we put our heads together with our neighbors, good things happen.

good things like picking tart red cherries by the bucket full,




pitting cherries in the warm morning sun,


washing them and enjoying their beauty,



and then covering them in butter and sugar and baking them.


oh, and then eating eating eating. with each other, a friend's house, at the neighborhood party potluck. this week, wherever we go, cherry crisp goes with us.