Had the chance to stop in today at Oliver Farm near Reidsville and picked white peaches fresh off the trees.  They had two long rows ripe for picking of the white variety with the darker orange fleshed peaches to be ready between the 20th and 25th of July they said. Managed to fill two large baskets and paid only 50 cents a pound for them! (a far cry from 99 cents/lb on sale in the stores! – and a whole lot fresher!)

So now that they’re home… my kitchen is overflowing with peaches.  They’re covering all my counterspace…

Saturday, I’m planning on picking some blueberries. Ordinarily, I think blueberries are done by July – but our winter lasted so long this year, everything seems to be pushed out til later in the season. There’s a great u-pick blueberry farm in Townsend, just across the county in McIntosh and the lady there said there would be plenty of berries for another week!  So I suppose Sunday, I’ll be making peach & ginger jam, peach salsa and blueberry jam – not to mention a blueberry peach cobbler at some point.

Too bad I have to wear latex gloves to handle the peaches… while I can handle their skin, I can’t handle their flesh and juices raw… I break out in strange hives.  Dunno… developed this odd allergy to peaches in college- nothing deadly like some allergies, just a mildly irritating one.  Still, love peaches enough that I’ll gladly take a Benedryl in order to go a little crazy with peaches each summer!