26
June
2003
9:56 PM
We're off early in the morning for camping and canoeing throughout the first weekend of Rivers Week in BC. Should be fun. Well, as long I'm not tossed into a raging freezing rapid and have to paddle my own self to safety. Nola assures me that the chances of that are minimal. She's lied to me before, most notably about the origin of salmonberries, so my trust in her word is not entirely unblemished.
Web activity will resume on our return. If we do not return, Dog have mercy on our souls.
So where do salmon berries come from? I have had them befor having lived in the north west for half my life is there something i should know about them? Btw Im enjoying very much perusing your musings. Kisses Lea
Well, you see, it all had to do with explaining why they're called salmonberries.
In the fall the salmon travel back up the rivers to spawn and die. Salmon carcasses decompose fragrantly along the banks. Salmonberries, of course, grow along those same banks, and take up nutrients from the dead fish. So the berries look lovely, but taste astonishingly of rotting fish.
You see what I mean? The truth is not in this woman. Yet I, in my innocence and naiveté, believed her. And that's only the tip of the iceberg of tall tales she's spun under the guise of helping and instructing.
Woman's a menace.
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