Since moving into a rural location I've found myself picking blackberries most years. This typically happens in late August and September. Not this year, though. I noticed a load of ripe blackberries in some weeds in our garden (I'll get to it eventually, I swear) and found 10 minutes to pick some yesterday.

This is very early, right? The climate is clearly changing, it doesn't take early blackberries for me to notice this, but it is yet another indicator of change.

Admittedly there aren't too many here, though this was one small area of the garden that I've left unmaintained this year, I barely had to move to pick this lot. I have a somewhat hidden location down a public footpath that I like to visit to pick blackberries at, I wonder how many I would get from there?