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A little lightness
May. 27th, 2010 11:51 amThe world news is grim what with lying liarpants (tm someone at TWoP) from BP seriously underestimating the amount of oil gushing out and North Korea causing ructions, not to mention Thailand's riots of the last week, etc.
Even notable refuges from serious business are disappointing. A kid who never once sounded like he was in the same key as the accompaniment in the few times I heard him won American Idol, and I didn't love last night's Criminal Minds. *sigh*
But today's Los Angeles Times has made me feel better with this article about the boysenberry: The History of the Boysenberry.
I love the way they taste. Blackberries taste rich to me, and raspberries taste of roses. Boysenberries manage to combine both sensations and flavors while being distinctively themselves. If I had any near me, I would be making up biscuit dough to have a nice cobbler by now.
I will also say that, while I have a notoriously black thumb, I love plants and my grandfather was a farm foreman who specialized in melons. Around the time Knott's introduced the boysenberry widely, Grandpa was helping to develop the seedless watermelon through judicious hybridization.
Even notable refuges from serious business are disappointing. A kid who never once sounded like he was in the same key as the accompaniment in the few times I heard him won American Idol, and I didn't love last night's Criminal Minds. *sigh*
But today's Los Angeles Times has made me feel better with this article about the boysenberry: The History of the Boysenberry.
I love the way they taste. Blackberries taste rich to me, and raspberries taste of roses. Boysenberries manage to combine both sensations and flavors while being distinctively themselves. If I had any near me, I would be making up biscuit dough to have a nice cobbler by now.
I will also say that, while I have a notoriously black thumb, I love plants and my grandfather was a farm foreman who specialized in melons. Around the time Knott's introduced the boysenberry widely, Grandpa was helping to develop the seedless watermelon through judicious hybridization.
