A trip to the strawberry stand just west of town yielded not just strawberries but blackberries and cherries, too. And it's a shame this blog doesn't come with scratch 'n' sniff (or even better, taste 'n' savor). The strawberries are incredible—sweet, full of strawberryness. Ditto the cherries and the blackberries, only it's cherriness and blackberriness they're full of. But the strawberries are the piece de resistance. I'd offer you one, but by the time you read this, they may all be gone. (The loquats are courtesy of my friend and neighbor Dave, who invited me to help myself to his loaded tree. They, too, are chock-a-block full of everything that makes a loquat a loquat. Yum.)
