My Sunday

Well today's post was supposed to be an exciting tale  of foraging for brambles and then going home making a nice pot of jam.

Well it all started off well enough - Karen and I went off brambles picking. We had a great morning, the weather was glorious. You know one of those lovely crisp autumn mornings, blue sky and just that wee bit chilly - lovely, my favourite kind of morning :))  The walk was very pleasant with not many people around. I got to take some pictures - of which there are very many (96 in fact) lol. 

I think we were just a bit early in going picking because there were lots of red and not a huge amound of black ones ready.  
However we did our best and got what we could.

We got home and washed and dried them - full of excitement of the promised end product. 

Then I got started on the jam making - have you ever made a boiled sweet in jar? - 'cause I did that!!!
 I'm not sure how I managed it, I think I may have overboiled it.  
Do you think it will catch on!!!
 I could start a new craze?
No I don't think so either. 

So, needless to say both the jam and jar ended up in the bin - oh well I will just have to try again. 
I will not be beaten - haa haa.

You know one day I will surprise you all and do a post about my wonderful jam :))

So I decided just to show you some pictures of our lovely morning.

I just liked this picture of a man walking his dog with Arran in the background.

And I thought these looked like arrows pointing up to the beautiful blue sky!!

Lots of brambles - mostly red ones right enough, but there were some nice black ones.

Karen concentrating on the job in hand :))

 Some lovely red leaves.

And some rain dew soaked ones. :)

 A snail clinging to a leaf.

So there you have it - the tale of woe with my jam making and some of my pictures.

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 Nancy

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Deanna 
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