Black raspberries are ripening all over the park and since the little patch I had here at the house has pretty much played out I'm enjoying them. I need to reestablish a new plot somewhere around here...

The end of next week I'll call to see if the red raspberries are ready down at Grisamore's (http://www.grisamorefarms.com/) and by then I hope to have made a couple of batches of jam from the remaining berries I have in the freezer. And there will be cherries, sweet and sour, and blueberries...

I never did make that rhubarb pie and I did miss some shortcake with the strawberries along with the low-fat vanilla ice cream I usually put under them but because I've been doing so much better than I expected with this program I'm not having any trouble staying focused on my weight loss targets and right now I think I may even exceed them by Labor Day.

Now if we just get some rain...