Wild strawberries are creeping their way along the edges of our woods.  They make a good groundcover and are tasty tidbits for birds, turtles, chipmunks, or people.

I picked a small bowl of the red little berries yesterday on the first day of summer.

We had Sunday morning Wild Strawberry Muffins!

I felt like a true gatherer when picking the wild strawberries–I wandered around the perimeter of the woods, looking for the berry plants.  One patch by our driveway had already been picked clean by some other creature.  The other patches were dotted with the bright red berries.  What looked like many on the vine didn’t fill my bowl very full!  Even though the wild strawberries were not in abundance when compared to a grocery store display of very large red berries, I was able to flavor our Sunday morning muffins with the fruit that was growing in the woods right outside our door.  And that’s a wonderful thing!