Cherry Picking by the Pound

We have this very large cherry tree in our back yard and it usually produces some good cherries.  Several years ago we even lost about a third of the tree to an early snow storm that broke one of the main trunks off of it, but it has continued to thrive.  I also seem to remember in years past that the birds and bugs got to them really early, but this year year it was different for some reason.  We had lots of good cherries so Gavin helped us pick quite a few of them.

As you can see, after a while he had picked this huge bowl full and Tara eventually cleaned them out and made a nice home made cherry pie from all his labor.  She did forget to get a cherry pitter though and had to squeeze out all of the seeds by squishing them which made for a long day of cooking.