Blackberry Summer

If you double click the photo you can get a better view of that bee on my blackberry blossom. Taken with my iPhone camera this morning.

There is a blackberry patch in our side yard that I find very annoying.  Annoying because you can't even get near a blackberry patch without having it attach itself to you. And if a thorn even touches your skin--at least my skin--I get a red, really painful sore there.

But we had a big blackberry patch in our first California house, way out back, and after my parents died I discovered this one way around back of our second house.  What was it with my father and blackberries?