5 on 5: Black Raspberry Picking

 5 on 5 is a blog circle featuring documentary photographers who love to tell a story with their photography. It is our heart to capture life as it happens.  We capture the happy, the messy, the crazy, the beautiful, the imperfect, because this is life.  It is all of these aspects wrapped up into what we call our days and we don't want to forget a single moment.  Each photographer will post 5 photographs on the 5th of the month sharing their stories, lives, and memories through the beauty of captured moments. Read through my blog, comment, and then click on the link to move on to the next photographer in the circle.


Drum roll, please... for the unveiling of  my first 5 on 5:

I have a helper who loves to pick berries with me.  She's not afraid of mosquitoes, poison ivy, or brambles.

She may, however, be any where from slightly to majorly afraid of insects (excluding mosquitoes of course).  Insects beware if you invade her space you may get the death stare or even a blood curdling scream that would take the most stoic of individuals to not immediately dissolve into fits of laughter. (I know because I fail miserably).

Early on in our foraging expeditions she figured out there where great benefits to tagging along with me.  Since  Black Raspberry eating is right at the top of her list of things she loves to do, she very rarely turns down the opportunity to head out to the woods with me.

Sometimes the berry picking can be just too long and drawn out; I take to long and want to get as many berries as possible.  When she begins to get bored or the mosquitoes become majorly annoying, I send her to sit on the four-wheeler. 

This! This was beyond sitting, it was beyond precious. It was the perfection of memories and storytelling. My girl being herself... melts my heart.

• Next in our blog circle is Melissa. Go visit her blog for more documentary goodness!