Wild Blueberries

Jill's Journal: Maine isn’t just known for lobsters; it is also by far the nation’s top producer of wild blueberries, averaging about 100 million pounds of wild blueberries annually. Of course, we’re out of season for the fresh blueberries everyone raves about, so we had to try the next best thing: blueberry wine. Yum.

I wish we could bottle up just a smidgeon of the splendor of Maine as easily and take it with us. We leave Bangor tomorrow and will no longer be close to the coast after about three fantastic months of following the Atlantic Ocean north from the eastern seaboard of Virginia. We’ll head slightly west tomorrow to a small Maine town not far from New Hampshire’s border.