In days gone by we would identify a cold spell in the middle of May (like we are having now) as "Blackberry Winter". However, with all the fields that used to have blackberry vines and scrub cedar being planted in grains (corn, wheat and soybeans), it is hard to find any blackberries. So I guess "Blackberry Winter" will go the way of tobacco barns and undeveloped acreage and become a thing of the past. I suppose its demise was inevitable anyhow with global warming.
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