Red, White, and Blue...berries!

I can't believe another 9/11 has come and almost gone.  (If you missed my post last year on the 10th anniversary....I'll make it easy to find...click here.)

One thing that I think I failed to mention in last year's post is my awesome American flag.

In the days following the 9/11 attacks, I decided I wanted to hang a flag up in the window of the house my roommates and I were living in.  Unfortunately everyone else in the Provo/Orem (Utah) area (and the rest of the country for that matter) did too.  I couldn't find a flag anywhere!

So I did what anyone else would do, I called my mom.  She had a flag on hand that she would send me.  (Yes.  She's that good.)  And since then I've always had this flag displayed somewhere in my place of residence.

We live in a wonderful country!  I feel so blessed to be an American!

Now on the the blueberries.

My friend Lindsay invited me on another last minute trip up to Hatcher Pass to pick some blueberries.  (We drove up there with two of our other friends--Joelyn and Erin T.)

I'm so glad I put aside everything else that I thought I "needed" to do and joined the adventure.  It was so much fun!

The bushes were pretty picked over, but we were able to find some berries...one bush in particular was extremely good, and made the trip that much more fun...for me at least.  (As it turns out, I may be sort of a fair weather berry-picker...but I feel much more "Alaskan" now.  That's for sure!)

Best blueberry bush of the day...this is just one small section of it!

Joelyn

Lindsay

Fresh snow on Hatcher pass

The blueberries I picked!...along with the leaf and stem carnage...

All clean!  (Stemming them and cleaning them took longer than picking them...not really, but I was in the mood to be dramatic...)

I think I have just enough for a blueberry oatmeal breakfast for me and Luke .  I'm so excited!!!