How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
The View From the Front Window
I haven’t been posting lately. Here’s part of the reason:
That’s a picture of sunrise over Upper Quartz Lake in Glacier National Park last week. Taking in views like this while sipping on morning coffee is part of why we live in Montana, and why we put up with low pay and Roger Koopman.
Oh, and the huckleberries, twin berries, and thimble berries are ripe too. The hike to and from the lake took much longer than anticipated.
I should have taken a picture. They grow on big-leafed plants, one set of berries per leaf, if that. There are two berries that are welded together in the middle. They are very bright red. You’ve seen them a thousand times, I’m sure.
Our hiking companion described their flavor best – they taste like plant matter, green stuff – not a lot of sweetness, but not tart or disagreeable.
Huckleberries are by far the best the woods have to offer.
No – it wasn’t like that at all. This is the closest I could find – it look like the berry, but there weren’t as many – maybe one per leaf, if that. But that’s the color and texture.
Piece of Mindful 
Nice. Best reason on earth to not waste too much time sitting at these damn computers.
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Wow. That’s stunning. I wouldn’t be inside on my computer if that’s what was outside the front door.
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Oh, but imagine how much more efficient this experience could have been if the park was in private ownership.
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What are twin berries?
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I should have taken a picture. They grow on big-leafed plants, one set of berries per leaf, if that. There are two berries that are welded together in the middle. They are very bright red. You’ve seen them a thousand times, I’m sure.
Our hiking companion described their flavor best – they taste like plant matter, green stuff – not a lot of sweetness, but not tart or disagreeable.
Huckleberries are by far the best the woods have to offer.
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I’ll bet you know what they are but call them something else. That happens a lot.
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Are these the berries in question? If so, I didn’t think they were edible. Shows what I know.
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No – it wasn’t like that at all. This is the closest I could find – it look like the berry, but there weren’t as many – maybe one per leaf, if that. But that’s the color and texture.
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Here it is – Utah twinberry or red twinberry, lonicera utahensis. Finally.
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