How many are lucky enough to start their morning with a bowl of freshly picked cherries? What a great way to start the day.
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I had a big bowl of sugar snap peas from the garden yesterday, cherries are a couple weeks away. We have these tiny Nanking cherries, which taste like a pie cherry- the sweet & sour kind, super prolific, but not quite as wonderful as the big sweet ones.