Portland is berry cool

Feels like rain....it was actually a balmy summer evening in Portland for the last blues set of Saturday evening which included a magical rendition of Feels Like Rain by John Hyatt.  His normally gravelly voice with occasional high notes betrayed the age of the blues man, but it was a perfect ending to a starry night in the river. On Sunday, we went to church with Mavis Staples mid-afternoon and the last night of the festival treated us to a capacity crowd and the soulful voice of Robert Plant with bluesy arrangements of old favorites.  

July is berry season in Oregon.  Blueberries, blackberries, boysenberries, marionberries...I could go on.   Instead, I made a boysenberry pie about it.  A boysenberry is a cross between a European Raspberry, a Common Blackberry and a Loganberry.  For the record, this cross bred berry makes a yummy pie.  We enjoyed every bite.  Here are pics for your virtual enjoyment.

Plump boysenberries getting all chummy with some sugar, lemon juices and other goodies.

Finished pie, still warm from the oven.