Berry season

[topum]

It is berry season here, the forest is full of these:



The kids pick them every day.

Comments

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

Those look tasty! When I was a kid there was a blackberry bush that was close to where we used to play and it was so much fun picking some for a snack.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

In Spanish, it's "mora", and the colour "morado" (purple, violet) is called not after the berry's one, which is black, but after our tongue when we eat it...

[topum.livejournal.com]

All the kids here walk around with brown hands and lips because of walnuts.

[topum.livejournal.com]

These are wild and are smaller than garden blackberries but much much tastier.

[topum.livejournal.com]

In Romanian forest berries are called "mure", which is not that far from "mora" probably because both Romanian and Spanish are Romance languages.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's morum in Latin.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Yummy black berries.  They're good in pie. 

Athena

[bunn.livejournal.com]

So do I!

Rare to see kids around here picking them though. They are missing out!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Here kids do all the berry and fruit picking. They bring some home and sell most of it along the roads next to their villages to get some pocket money.

[topum.livejournal.com]

These wild ones are smaller than garden blackberries but they are much tastier, much more intense.

[nick-101.livejournal.com]

Yum, blackberries.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Yes, we have wild ones that grow here too.  They taste so much better then the grocery store ones.  Here the season for wild black berries is usually late August early September.   Just after wild blue berry season. 

Athena

[http://users.livejournal.com/luckyboi-/]

I hope there are no bears around

[topum.livejournal.com]

Hardly any bears in Moldova anymore due to horrific deforestation in the last ten years, they are all in neighbouring Romania now (more than a third of all Europe's bears are in Romania these days).

[topum.livejournal.com]

And you don't even have to pick, the kids do it.

[darkoshi]

Deforestation just to sell the wood for money, or to clear the land for other purposes?

[topum.livejournal.com]

Both. To make money by selling the wood and then selling the land to agricultural holdings.