Near the top of the tree, way out of my reach... Beautiful!

The apricots are going fast! Of course the largest, prettiest ones are at the top of the tree! Delicious, tree ripened goodness. Their season is much too short. Our tree is about 35 yrs old now and produces every other year or so.

Yes, this really is an apricot! Yum!

It's Huckleberry Season!

Huckleberries in our area can ripen as early as July 4th, but typically they are ready Mid July and the season can last into September. In our search for the wild Huckleberry we took a drive up to one of my husband's favorite deer and elk hunting camps. It's an easy drive up the old highway then onto a dirt road that goes to a great spot filled with huckleberry plants. This year we picked our first batch July 13th and another on July 19th. Not sure if we will get another picking as the weather has turned quite hot! In addition to huckleberries you can find wild strawberries and Thimble berries. Never enough of the later two to do anything with so we eat them as we find them. While we stretch our legs during a break in picking there are lots of wild flowers and other interesting things to take pictures of and just enjoy the faint hint of pine scent in the air and the warm sun in a beautiful mountain setting. Talk about stress relief!

Wild huckleberries and strawberries.

You really must taste them! A few did make it into my picking bucket!

Thimble berries are getting ripe! 

Thunder rollin' Lightning flashin'!

We had one heck of a storm last night! Thunder rollin’ Lightning flashin’!! Hubby had gone to bed before the big show started... not sure how he slept through any of it! I went out with my camera and could not get one shot of the storm, so grabbed hubby’s little camera and got one pretty good shot.