Is Labor Day the last hoorah?

Might be the last hoorah this Labor Day weekend. Those rows of small bushes that are loaded with berries still were not quite ripe on Thursday, but should ripen any time.

There are still berries to be picked on the bigger-bush varieties. Best strategy is to go to the middle (people start at the ends) and lift up the branches, you will eventually find a motherlode of berries that have gone unnoticed.

Caution: watchout for hornet/wasp nests! You would think with three weeks of picking that all of them would be found but, alas, there still can be a ground nest that goes unnoticed for awhile. Despite still discovering a nest every week or so, hardly anyone has been stung. Good reflexes and attentiveness to the presence of wasps and hornets are the keys. Don't mean to scare, just encourage awareness.