Bear Mountain, Peters Creek: Picked lots of blueberries and crowberries. Lots of green blueberries still. Crowberries perfect.
August 10
Lucile Creek, Big Lake: Lots of lowbush cranberries half ripe. Picked a few nagoonberries. Lots of bunchberries.
July 31
Fish Creek, Knik: Best watermelon berries I’ve seen. Perfect and everywhere. Lots of plants and many berries per plant. Very tasty.
July 26
Matanuska River Park, Palmer: Lots of really good red currants. Very tasty and ripe. Lots of half ripe highbush cranberry. Some nice watermelon berries. Also lots of soapberry and baneberry around. Also rosehips ready.
July 23
Peters Creek: Watermelon berries good, pretty big, but still green on a few plants.
July 22
Kincaid Park, Anchorage: Lots of ripe raspberries. Ripe rose hips. Some ripe red currants. Lots of elderberries everywhere.
July 14
Marsh land, Big Lake: Blueberries green, blue, and the blue ones taste green.
July 12
Creamer’s Field, Fairbanks: Quite a few strawberries, small. Good flavour but lots are too far gone. Some plants still flowering.
July 6
Fairbanks: 87°F highest temperature of the year.
June 15
Farm Loop, Palmer: All the wildflowers going wild, still tons of bluebells.