#blackberrypicking
September 7, 2026 at 5:41 AM
August 31, 2026 at 2:48 PM
“Blackberries clustered against the sky, heavy and dark as thunder, which we plucked and gobbled, hour after hour, lips purple, hands stained to the wrist”
~ Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie.

#blackberrypicking #summersbounty
#tenmileriver #norcal
August 19, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Its #BlackberryPicking time of year! What a beaut this is. A lovely, not too sweet, rounded porter. ‘Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it’ #IrishCraftBeer #BeerSkyB #Heaney
August 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The blackberries are very early this year...late July, not late August, and they are absolute whoppers

'Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's.'
#SeamusHeaney #Blackberrypicking
July 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The have been glorious this week. #BlackberryPicking
August 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
April 16, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Not to get all Seamus Heaney on you all #blackberrypicking
July 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#speirgorm is there a tradition about not picking blackberries after August?

#Ireland #berries #blackberrypicking #food #foraging
August 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
‘…Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it…’ An t-am sin den bhliain arís #Heaney #BlackberryPicking
August 18, 2024 at 8:16 AM
“Late September … “
Far be it from me to argue with Seamus Heaney, but not this year, sir.
#BlackberryPicking
#SeamusHeaney
#Poetry
#Nature
July 27, 2026 at 5:21 PM