Wild Strawberries

Today I picked some wild strawberries. "What?!" you might say, "it's only the first week of June". You would be right in your surprise, since here on the east coast of Canada we usually have to wait until the first of JULY for these lovely sweet red berries. But this year, spring has been very early and very warm for us and nearly everything from fiddle heads to asparagus to apple blossoms are 2-3 weeks early. Now I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I could go on about climate change and weather patterns, but I'm sure that would be preaching to the choir, so to speak. Every one is at least aware, if not convinced, of the climate change argument. So I won't, I'll just say that I enjoyed the tart juicy-ness of these little berries as tiny taste of what's to come when the cultivated version is ready for picking in a few weeks. Mmmm.....