I made the mistake of pointing out a bunch of blackberries to my e-wife (my e-bike riding wife) the other day as we bicycled along the Mountain Division Trail in Fryeburg.
It’s not that we didn’t stop, pick and eat. We did. It’s that she wanted to come back another time and harvest way more.
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