More precious than gold or rubies

These were delicious!

More precious to me than gold or rubies, at least for the moment, are the first raspberries from my garden.

I planted these raspberry brambles in the spring of 2011 and didn't expect, or get, any raspberries that first year because raspberries fruit on two year old canes. This spring I was hopeful that I would pick my first crop by mid summer.

And then the drought