Thorns in the morning.

There is seriously nothing like picking your own berries and sitting in the backyard, enjoying every bite with your kids. Seeing them appreciate the time it takes to grow things, harvest them, and then eat them. It's a life lesson worth learning :)
We found this tiny little bush on the side of our house when we moved in last year,  thought it was a poor little rose bush. Even contemplated pulling it out, because we really want a producing yard. Flowers can sit under the magnolia among it's roots, but other then that, we want food!
So we decided to leave the poor little twig of a bush, to see if it would do anything come spring. Well boy did it surprise us. Came up huge, green, and full of life! Not to mention much more distinguished leaves. That helped us determine that we had a 'raspberry bush', then came all the tiny little white blossoms. When the green berries started appearing on every part of the bush I was ecstatic, I couldn't believe such a small bush could produce so many berries. (yes, I get WAY too excited about these things)
The morning the first berries ripened my son pointed out the 'rotten raspberries', that is when finally got the proper label for this poor bush, we had a blackberry bush.
It has given us a ton of berries, and still is. We couldn't be happier with our decision to leave the tiny dying bush alone last year :)