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| The heat and sunshine have been intense these past few weeks but that's not all bad. Some of it went into ripening New Jersey's blueberry crop. They are ready! |
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| I went blueberry picking this week on a farm in Hammonton, New Jersey; that's the blueberry capital of the world. Click the photos to enlarge. |
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| I came back with 12 pints of blueberries for which I paid $1.66 each. |
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| I got a fine day out, a good deal, exercise, and... |
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| a picnic beside Hammonton Creek, pictured here. It was lovely. |
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| When I got home, I made blueberry jam. I'm going to try to save some until January. It is summer in a jar. |
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| Delicious. |
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| The hot sunny days are also good for butterfly spotting. Here are some that I saw on berry picking day. A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae. |
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| A spicebush swallowtail, Papilio troilus. |
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| A tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus. |
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| And a buckeye, Junonia coenia. |
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