Saturday we went to a “U Pick Raspberries” farm to

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pick raspberries.

The field belongs to a local florist, BeeHaven Floral Farm, who said they didn’t intend to grow and harvest raspberries, but they wanted to grow the plants, the thornless variety, for foliage to use in their floral arrangements. For the huge sum of $15, you can pick all the raspberries you want from a single 60 or so foot row. (They have a few shorter rows that they let you pick for no extra charge.) We had a lot of fun, ate a lot of raspberries, and brought home almost 25 pounds of the tasty fruit!

* The title is a reference to the poem To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Robert Herrick, 1591-1674. It is interesting to us (okay, it’s interesting to Stan) that Robert Herrick, the poet, is an ancestor of Samuel Herrick, the astronomer, who wrote the definitive text on celestial mechanics: Astrodynamics: Orbit Determination, Space Navigation, Celestial Mechanics, Volume 1.