August 1, 2014 – My summers used to revolve around cherries. I’ve pitted more cherries in my life than I care to think about. But cherries always bring memories of family summers, working in the orchard until the heat of the day drove us off the ladders and either down to the lake, or into a fabulous all out no hold barred water fight.
For many years I refused to buy cherries. The prices were ridiculous! I’d grown up with free cherries, well, free in the sense that I picked them on my grandparents orchard, and later, after my grandparents were gone, at my great aunt & uncle’s orchard.
Summer was the time of heat waves, hard work, and hard play. But it was the time of family and sweet sweet fruit straight from the trees and bushes.
I’ve finally overcome the pain of paying the prices in the stores, if I ever want to enjoy the fruits of my childhood, I have to. Kirk is happy that I finally gave in. 🙂
114 Pictures in 2014: #20 – Fruit
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Sigh, the first food I became allergic to.
I completely identify with you, Paige. I used to hate cherries after picking, pitting, showing people out to the orchard, etc. The taste of them was completely unappealing. In the last 10 years, I have grown to cherish their ravishing flavour. I crave them every summer and will pay the high dollar sometimes. However, when they do come on sale, I scoop them up and eat those juicy cherries to my heart’s content. We were so spoiled with all that fruit on our family’s orchards. So much work but so much bounty.
I don’t think I ever hated cherries. You truly did live and breathe them though, you lived on your orchard, I just got dragged there as child labour 😉
But yes, so spoiled and as you say, when I see them on sale, I definitely indulge 😀
We used to sit up in my grandpas tree every summer and gorge on cherries. I remember pitting so my grandma could can and make cherry pies. Cherries are still my all time favourite fruit and I will pay whatever to get some, but by far, the BC cherries are the best.