Seven years after planting a sour cherry tree, we finally harvested a real crop of red delight. As Aven and I pitted cherries on the porch, sweet red juice ran down our elbows and knees. Then, with pink fingers, we baked a fresh cherry pie sweetened with a little maple syrup and wove a lattice crust on top. Afterwards, we read the children's book Cherries and Cherry Pits by Vera B. Williams, and recorded it in Aven's reading diary. We have been participating in the national summer reading program Catch the Reading Bug, where kids keep a reading diary over the summer. The diary is illustrated with beachside bugs engrossed in books by Harry Bliss, a Vermont illustrator who did the great bugs et al in Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Fly, and Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin.
We froze the leftover cherries so we can enjoy a bit of summer this winter in a pie and some cherries jubilee!
3 comments:
Awesome!!!!!!
Reminds me of stuffing ourselves full of cherries on Opa's trees.
Making some good memories there for Aven.
Cherries, I love cherries and in a pie, now that is ambrosia.
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