Yum yum yum YUM!
Marionberries are loading down the vines and this bush has proven to be the fastest growing, healthiest one of the three berry plants I've got growing on the trellis I built this past winter. For those not frm the Pacific Northwest, marionberries are a cousin of the blackberry developed in Marion County, Oregon, and are in my opinion even better than their more popular cousin! Some say they taste like a blackberry mixed with a raspberry, but I disagree - to me, it more resembles a cross with a boysenberry (probably because I detest raspberries), with a savory-sweet-tart goodness that you have to taste to fully appreciate.
I keep saying that I'm going to save them up to make a pie or even a quick galette...yet then by the end of each day, they've disappeared from the bowl I have in the fridge, whether it be tossed in a smoothie, atop my morning oatmeal with some blueberries also picked from our backyard bushes, and of course fresh on their own. And that's cool too.
"To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing - the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again." ~ Marilynne Robinson
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