As the moon goes from crescent
To the glorious heralding of
FULL!
The first of the stone fruit has started to ripen
Cherries enough for the birds and us!
I’ve been picking strawberries for a spell now; adding in the cherries makes meals yummy
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I looooove cherries. I wish I could grow them, but I have to ‘make do’ with exotic tropical fruit 😉
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I like exotic tropical fruit also. Yum
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Your cherries look delicious! I’m glad that you are getting some nice weather for all the fruit harvesting you have to do now.
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A tad overwhelming, but between me and the birds…………..:)
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Those cherries are priced like gold in the supermarkets.
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So true. And they taste old.
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Beautiful moon shots and those cherries… Yum!
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I made sherbet to serve at lunch today. Yummm
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Strawberry season! Mmmmmm….
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Yummm…I made a great strawberry salad!
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Lovely, I ate a cherry yesterday.
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I made sherbet! Lucky us!
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Love the photos. Do you ever make jelly?
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Yes, mostly jam. And Marachio Cherries. Spelling is not my long suit!
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The birds strip Stella’s cherry so fast we seldom get any picked in time :-(.
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CHERRIES! I miss ours already! They won’t be back until next year. We have only sweet cherries that get eaten fresh or frozen for sweet things later. There are none for cooking with, although some of us get creative anyway. Sweet cherries used to be the main orchard crop in Sunnyvale. It is strange that no one remembers the tart cherries. Almost all cherry orchards grew mostly ‘Bing’, with a few trees of other cultivars of sweet cherry as pollinators. Some of the pollinators were normal tart cherries, but no one remembers them. We grew up with only sweet cherries. If I ever get a tart cherry, it will likely be either ‘Royal Ann’, which was supposedly a common pollinator here, or the ‘Almaden Duke’, which grew as a seedling from a ‘Duke’ cherry in Almaden.
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These are sour cherries and have grown from seedlings…I really need to thin out the thicket now.
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Old and not ripe!! How spoiled we are who have had tree ripe fruit.
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Tree ripe fruit is the best, but hard to get when there are BIRDS! 🙂
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We are a big early season cherry producing area here. I love making dried cherries for winter snacking.
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I love yummy dried cherries.
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I’m not a big cherry fan but, they remind me of my GM’s farm. She had a tree and the birds loved it. They always made my eyes tear up…sour! Dried ones are good, just like cranberries. They will make you pucker, too.😄
See! Your moon is SO much better than mine! 😋😖
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I grew up with semi-sweet (Yum) and all sorts of sweet cherries, but when I moved here there was ONE sour cherry tree and I fell in love.
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😝
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Wow that’s loads of cherries! Hope you get there first … 🙂
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We did. All picked but the very top and those are for the birds. 🙂
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