Here in Alabama the two things I miss most of all are lilacs and gooseberries. Gooseberries grew back home in our Northern Michigan woods. As I remember they didn't last long, (or maybe I was finding only a few that the birds left). I never ate them green, and it was quite a challenge to eat them: like juicy grapes covered with thorns.
The juice is the reward you get trying to break the berry open in your mouth despite the thorns!
Great memories, Sharon!
