CAN STRAWBERRIES SAVE THE WORLD?

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE FOR DESSERT 

FRESH BAYFIELD STRAWBERRIES: SIMPLY DELICIOUS

Sunday,  7:00 AM.  66 degrees F at the ferry dock, 62 degrees on the back porch.  Wind WNW, calm with very light gusts.  The sky has a high overcast, the humidity is 78% and the barometer is falling, currently at 29.81".  We will get some rain later today and tomorrow.
   The Bayfield strawberry crop is ripe, and being picked! The berries are large, sweet and plentiful.  Almost as large as the woody imitations from California, they put those impostors to shame with their fresh, juicy sweetness.
   Not that there is anything terribly wrong with the huge California berries, but they just can't compare with the berries grown naturally on our sandy soils.  Bayfield strawberries are the real deal!
   When contemplating  all the past and current terrorism, It saddens me that there are people in this world with souls so dead that they would rather kill themselves and others in the name of some spiritual abstraction than enjoy the simple pleasure of eating strawberries here, today, in this world.
   A strawberry is perhaps the perfect example of God's loving bounty, proof that God, nature and man can cooperate to produce such an earthly delight.  We would have a heaven on earth if all God's children would simply cooperate in growing, harvesting and enjoying the fruits of the earth, foremost of which I consider to be the strawberry.
   Can strawberries save the world?  Maybe, just maybe, they could.