summer rains have arrived

It rained and rained this past week - all the rain this dry summer was saving poured from the skies. It made our backyard stream (directly behind the house and dry for two months) look like this:

But there was one glorious weekend day that I was able to go to my favourite place in the world, to pick berries for nine hours straight (until my back was sore and fingers purple and my forearms all scratched up):

I picked 15 L of huckleberries - already cleaned up and frozen or dehydrated. The next day, we harvested two winter squash, the last of the peas (hidden under the tomatoes in the photo), pounds of tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini and two types of kale. A bucketful of apples (two varieties). We still need to pick our spaghetti squash, drying beans, more kale, more tomatoes and our onions (sitting in a swamp at the moment).

This means lots of yummy eating lately (in addition to desperate cravings of junk food, unfortunately). 

You see where this is going, right? Awesomesauce.