blaeberries

We followed a little, fast-running irrigation channel most of the way up through forest and watched a woman picking myrtles with a device that looked a bit like a comb on the front of a box you would need very close-set teeth to do the same with Scottish blaeberries.

Day 9 – Trient via the Fenetre d’Arpette 2009

We followed a little, fast-running irrigation channel most of the way up through forest and watched a woman picking myrtles with a device that looked a bit like a comb on the front of a box you would need very close-set teeth to do the same with Scottish blaeberries.

Day 8 La Fouly – Relais d’Arpette 2009

From here the path climbed up to the Col de Tricot (2120m) through meadows which must have been spectacular when it was in full flower earlier in the year, but now offered a tasty mid-morning snack of beautifully ripe, sweet, plump blaeberries (or myrtilles as they are in France).

Day 1-Les Houches to Auberge du Truc 2009

I left my baby lying here to go and gather blaeberries. cho: Ho-van, ho-van gorry o go, gorry o go, gorry o go;

Highland Fairy Lullaby 1998

It was delight itself to the latter to think of having nothing to do on those glorious hot days but gather blaeberries, or lie on the grass, or bathe in the Glamour and dry themselves in the sun ten times a day.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

When he left the cottage, he did not return to the house, but threaded the little forest of pines, climbing the hill till he came out on its bare crown, where nothing grew but heather and blaeberries.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

As for Edith, she rambled at will among the bushes of the nearest ravine, under the faithful guardianship of Chimo, and hurried back to the camp almost every hour, laden with cloudberries, cranberries, blaeberries, and crowberries, which grew in profusion everywhere.

Ungava 1859

The island on which we had encamped was a small rocky one, covered with short heathery-looking shrubs, among which we found thousands of blaeberries.

Hudson Bay 1859

In summer there was an interval of half an hour between the lecture and the sermon, "when," says Mr. William Cairns, "there was opportunity for a delightful breathing-time, and the youths who were swift of foot could just reach the bottom of a hill whereon were plenteous blaeberries, and snatch a fearful joy if one could swallow without leaving the tell-tale marks on the lips and tongue."

Principal Cairns John Cairns 1855

As I pressed through the thick underwood, I startled a strange-looking apparition in one of the open spaces beside the gulf, where, as shown by the profusion of plants of _vaccinium_, the blaeberries had greatly abounded in their season.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829