Plantspotting

This past weekend we were riding around the local bike trails, and I brought my camera to take pictures of any edibles we came across. I haven't had a chance to prepare any of them, but I owed the blog an entry, so at the very least I figured I could add some pictures to the gallery.

The first thing I did was take a picture of a common daylily, which I have none of in my yard. It was not difficult to find some; they are ALL over the place, and I plan to obtain some from a nearby vacant lot under cover of darkness. Shhhhh...



So I also wound up getting a shot of some sweet clover, and that's a respectable edible. The flowers are sweet and delicious and I used to eat them as a child before I knew anything about edible wild plants.



When we got home, I figured I'd take some shots of our chokecherry tree. Though the fruits are STILL green, it looks like birds or squirrels have already eaten most of them. Which is weird, because there are lots of beautiful ripe wild raspberries mere feet away that they are ignoring. I'm also surprised they had any room left after taking all those strawberries off our hands... So if there are any chokecherries left by the time they ripen, I'll most certainly try making a jam this year.