Strawberries

 

We have a strawberry patch in the backyard that the previous owner had planted, and this year we were determined to protect them against the squirrels (we were told that those little monsters cause havoc on any vegetable and fruit garden)

Because of the warm weather we've been having this Spring, by the second week of May the strawberry plants were already full in bloom.  

 

And before the end of May, fruit were already forming and they were in pretty good shape, and some were starting to turn red already.... 

And ta-da!! The first few ripe ones :)  Freshly picked from the garden - it doesn't get any more fresh than that!  (And these are real size strawberries, around 1" big, not like the giant monster ones you see at the supermarket - sometimes you wonder what they use to plump those ones up so much?!)