If you have been lucky enough to find wild strawberries, you know that their taste is exquisite. The larger garden strawberries (not to mention those large imported strawberries on steroids) simply cannot compete with the tangy-sweet-intense berry flavor of these wild treasure berries. It takes many of them to fill the cup of two hands. Since they are very fragile, they are best eaten where they are found, hand to mouth.
Wild strawberries
The second treasure in this picture are my husband’s hands. His hands are strong and able to command most tools or machines you place into them. These hands are patient and can fix almost anything. His hands transmit loving energy to animals and humans; babies are particularly comforted by them. When he lays these hands on you and gets very quiet, you feel their healing energy pass through you.
And to top it all of, his fingernails are often cleaner than my own!
This post was created in response to the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge “Treasure.”
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Annette , what a lovely contribute to your husband! Wild Strawberries are the most best, I used to find them back in Germany in my fathers garden.
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Thank you, Cornelia. Glad you had the experience, Wilde Erdbeeren! As far as the tribute to my husband is concerned, I thought it would make a creative Valentine’s card….
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They really are delicious, I have a wild patch of them I leave on my garden.
Perfect treasures 🙂
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Somebody else mentioned having them in the garden, so I think I’ll do a bit of transplanting…:-)
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Once you have them they will happily spread and colonise. In fact if they didn’t produce such delicious wee fruits I might call them a weed…..but how could a treasure be a weed 🙂
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Perfect treasures both!
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Totally agree, Cathy!
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I love wild strawberry as well, I have them growing in my garden, they came with one off my dad’s plants a few years ago, and I’m taking good care of them. They are not so easy to find in the wild here in Norway anymore. I get such a treat out off “hunting” them down in my yard every summer 🙂
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You are giving me an idea here – transplanting some wild ones into my garden. That certainly makes it a bit easier to locate them. Wondering why they are disappearing in their natural habitat?
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This is a fine tribute, Annette, and so good to remind us what our true treasures are. I once made wild strawberry ice cream. I think it has to be one of the most hauntingly delicious things ever.
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You must have been very patient gathering enough of these little jewels for your ice cream. Oh, how delicious…. these are the kinds of things you can only have by making them yourself or being good friends with someone who does.
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My mouth is watering just looking at these strawberries. How I miss them. It’s very difficult to find strawberries in Nicaragua. We used to live near a strawberry farm in the states. When it was strawberry season, I gorged on them. I’m laughing at your comment about your husband’s clean fingernails. That’s the first thing I check when I buy fruit from a street vender. lol
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You know that strawberries CAN grow in more tropical areas? I was shocked to find out that they are growing on the island of Bali (granted, a bit up in the mountainous regions, but still in a tropical place!). So, you may just find a tropics-hardy strawberry to grow….
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Ahhh..you’ve given me hope and a new quest. We have some mountains in Northern Nicaragua where there are many coffee plantations. I wonder if strawberries grow there? You’re the best. Thanks, Beauty.
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Never hurts to check it out 🙂
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We used to eat them along the path walking through the black forest, also blueberries and rasperries, all much nicer than the bought stuff. More fun picking and eating too. Those look fantastic, hope you enjoyed them!
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Did you grow up in the Black Forest, also? I do remember those walks and all the berry treasures growing free along the road….
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No I didn’t but close enough to go there for many walks and long trips through the forest with my parents. We loved walking, smellling the trees, picking up pine cones and have a wonderful time as a family together. Priceless memories!
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The Black Forest was (and still is, despite acid rain damage) one of the beautiful places on earth. I always enjoy going back for a visit.
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It certainly is, a friend of mine still lives in the deep forest and it is always fantastic to visit and step into the calm forest and villages. It seems life stands still there.
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What a beautiful post both in color, content and topic. May your husbands hands always bring healing and love to you and all the little and big creatures he cares for.
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Thank you, Asma, for your well wishes.
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Those strawberries look so good! I’ve never seen wild strawberries or blackberries in the US (France only) so it’s good to know they do grow here. Tere are definitely none of those berries growing in Southern California. You’re lucky to find such good patches.
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There must be some kind of wild berries, even in Cali? I do feel lucky, I have not only found wild strawberries, but also blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, and teaberries on my property, along with many other wild edibles. The Appalachian Mountains are home to an incredible diversity of plants.
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There may be some edible berries but I think it’s mostly seeds here in Southern California. I did see wild strawberries in Idyllwild, a couple of hours away from here but nowhere else locally. The climate is very dry so we mostly get brush and cactus. Oh, there goes some prickly pear!
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I loved the prickly pear out West – something edible and beautiful out of a forbidding plant like a cactus! Also, the color of the juice is such a gorgeous jewel-red.
I actually have some cactus growing in my rock garden and it has begun to bear fruit! Don’t know how big it will get but I am amazed how it can withstand the cold.
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The desert can be very cold (freezing temperatures) but not as cold as the East Coast. It’s amazing your cactus not only survived this harsh winter but is also bearing fruit in the middle of it.
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It survived last winter and gave me some fruit in late summer/fall (sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that is is bearing at this moment). During the winter it looks very shrivelled, as if it’s dead, but then rallies. I’ve seen similar cacti thriving and growing really large in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, which is a bit warmer than up here in the mountains. When a friend offered me the cacti, it was an experiment and I was skeptical. Let’s see whether it revives this spring…
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I’d love to know if it survived the artic blast.
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Lovely tribute to your husband the gorgeous berries, Annette.
Ha en fin dag! 😊
Dina
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Thank you, Dina!
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