more cherries

These are North Star Cherries--just plain ol' sour cherries, chosen to be tough and disease resistant, needing no pesticide.

Here's some of the Lehman gang picking. L to R--Anna Lois, Helen, Milton, Evie, and Lois. Loretta's in there somewhere, too. In the 1950s we picked cherries at the Lehman farm close to Lancaster. In the 1970s we picked seconds at a Beiler neighbor's orchard.

cherry picking

Here's my brother Milton holding his granddaughter Helen. And here's grandma, Lois, after the cherry picking today.

The crop this year is small but deep red. Both trees were swarmed by my sisters Loretta, Anna Lois, and Evelyn and husband Gary, besides the three in the pic and Dorcas and me.

The trees came from the nursery 20 years ago and one is sorely diseased. But, what a family time!