A cheery summertide

I reckon that one of summertide's best virtues is its bounty of summer fruits: mangoes, pineapples, watermelon, peaches, and perhaps my very favorite of them all, cherries! Since it is prime time for the sweet stone fruit, we went cherry-picking a couple of weekends ago. I have been itching to go for years, but I always missed the short window they were available. Though the husband is attuned to my predilection for the fruit-picking pastime by now (we've picked strawberries, pumpkins, apples, and Christmas trees together since we've tied the knot), he wasn't a fan of cherries until we arrived at the cherry orchard. The towering trees were dripping with huge, ripe, juicy cherries of varieties aplenty (my most preferred are the yellow Rainier cherries - yum!).  "Why do cherries look like little butts?" the husband asked as we plucked them from the leafy branches. Regardless of their quirky shape, we couldn't help but sample some, and when the husband did, he couldn't stop - they were just so good! I couldn't bend as easily under branches while being five and a half months pregnant that exceedingly warm afternoon, but we still stowed away with two baskets full of tasty cherries for snacking throughout the week. So worth it!