Strawberry Fields Forever

This weekend's outing? The Verrill Farm Strawberry Festival -- food, marionette performances (creepy), music, and pick your own strawberries. The berries were luscious, and Charlie attacked the task of picking with great enthusiasm and actually did a very good job discerning between those ripe and ready and those not.

The aforementioned creepy marionette show. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I find it takes away from the festive feeling when the operator tells the assembled families that he's had a hard year, what with selling a kidney and all.
Needless to say, commentary from the operator aside, Charlie enjoyed the show.

To the fields! Our little berry-picker.

While Elliot might have lacked some of the manual dexterity to really help in the picking, she did great in the eating.
Charlie's basket of picks - they taste as good as they look.