The Payoff by auntietk
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I would have put this in the Genre Challenge for August (Food), but there's a tiny bit too much postwork here! It didn't really fit the spirit of the challenge. (The challenge is closed, by the way. Voting ends on Tuesday.)
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Blackberry brambles are the scourge of the Pacific Northwest. They grow and spread like wildfire. Birds eat the berries and deposit seeds everywhere. Blackberries are worse than bindweed! Eleven months out of the year we all hate blackberry bushes with a passion. We cut them back, dig them up, burn them, put weed killer on them. We sing and chant and pray. We wail and cry and complain. Whatever we think will work to get rid of them, we'll try. We can keep them pushed back, but we can't get rid of them.
But in August . . . ohhhhh . . . August is different, my friends. We gorge on wild berries. They're everywhere! Those annoying, invasive brambles produce the most amazing fruit. Nobody complains about blackberry brambles in August! In August we make pie and crisp. We put berries on our ice cream. We eat them straight off the bushes, warm and sweet. We put up jam and wonder how we could have ever thought blackberry vines were a bad thing.
Once the berries are gone, though, we'll be back to trying to kill them. If we didn't they would take over the world!
Comments (59)
Ionel
Wonderfully done! Very beautiful work!!!
Domi48
Beautiful and suggestive image, bravo!
Mondwin
Looks sooooooooooooooo goood....blackberry..gnam..gnam!!!!!!!!Bravissima!V:DDD.Hugsxx
gizmo563
An excellent work!
krakosky
fantastic shoot
JillianElf
This is a beautiful image Tara! I love it! You have captured the Pacific Northwest in a glass. A rain cloud or two and you could have a travel brochure... ;) Your write up reminds me of Tom Robbins, where the blackberries take over a house and lock the poor girl inside. I think he understands your feelings! Bravo on an exceptional image! Hugs, Jilly
SSoffia
COMPOSICION MARAVILLOSA !!!!!
cmolsen2002
What an incredible pic! Your presentation is stunning! (and you can't add bindweed to an apple pie...........or can you?)
hipps13
This is awesome I really like it I do :-)
drag
Great picture the lighting on the berries is wonderful . And the write up..so true and now I'm going to have to drive down the road, stop in the middle, get out and pick me some blackberries.
Damia
OMG I know what you mean! lol These bushes are awful, except in August. :) This is a fantastic image. A wonderful idea and very creative. Excellent! :)
Janiss
Oh no Tara, no, no....! A glass... and such very glass filled up blackberry! Colors and light are marvelous! Such happyness for me... thank you Tara!;-)
mark.spooner
Very nice capture.
Mousson
Fantastique! Incroyable! Parfait!!!
nongo
You are so funny!!! And speak the truth about this invasive vine, but oh the wine and pie and on & on...it's uses are endless. We must admire it's ability to survive however, if the world was completely destroyed tomorrow, all we'd have left would be bugs & blackberries!!!!!! excellent image!!!!!
fredster66
Brilliant work!
helanker
OHHH LOL! You are so right about these blackberries :))) And we have sooo many around here too and now we are almost fighitng to come first to the bushes to get the lovely berries. :))) But your image here is just wonderful. I like it very much. You did a splendid job on it :))) 5*
awjay
strange ... i just picked some this afternoon..... you werent on the other side of the hedge were you? nice image my friend
jeroni
Fantastique!
Luka_30
Beautiful work!
Bossie_Boots
Wow very beautiful its quite amazing hugs lou x
RIGAU
Muy buena.
mps
Great image and story.
bangonthedrums
oh, now this is cool, tara...
mansco
A very beautiful work. Lovely idea ;O)
Onslow
Oh but such a lovely fruit - sorry they are a nuisance there like so many things when not in their rightful place :)
OldHippieKeyboard
Magnificent piece of work, Tara. To me it's one of your best creations. Bravo!
CavalierLady
Lovely and creative shot, enjoy those berries, sound yummy!
goodoleboy
Ah yes, black grapes from one of the wine orchards in California...could tell that anywhere! Quite a project revealed in this fine shot of the layering of grapes, background forest and glass/snifter.
rainbows
Very beautiful work, Tara and a jolly good read. I enjoyed both :-) Diane.