Reaping from the field

From time to time, I'm quite surprised at how much my parents made a special effort for years for their garden while walking around it. In fact, they had planted there various trees, vegitables and flowers for more than a decade and the long time is making it beautiful and enrich.

(My son seeking for strawberries)

In their garden(rather a farm, I think) on last sunday, we picked up wild strawberries, cherries, and japanese apricots. A little bit late season for strawberries, but quite well-riped strawberries were over there. The cherry trees and the linden trees-actually we called it a linden tree, but the dictionary says it's a cherry eleaegnus exactly, gave us a lots of red sweet and sour fruits, which my son and nephew really liked and had through the evening.

(A strawberry in the field and cherries on the tree)

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(Strawberries were not enough for all of us,

but we could enjoy cherries a lot. The round ones were from the cherry tree, but the long ones were from the cherry eleaegnus)

Picking up the japanese apricots from the highly upward branches was tough. Talking about apricot liquors and nectars, my mom and I had picked and gathered apricots till the late afternoon, but still many of them were on the branches.. I'll ask for some of it for liquor after she finish to reap..

(The japanese apricots.

Its origin is from china but I'm not sure why it is called japanese apricot)

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PS. On the way back to home, my wife commented to my silly question that we visited to my parents too often, and she said almost twice a month. Later I counted how many times we visited them and found 8 times during the past 6 months..