If you go blueberry picking at Trace View Farm, don’t forget your belt. I found this out when proprietor, Bernie Ellis, tied a string around my waist to hold a 2-gallon plastic bucket. Having two hands available to get the blueberries off their branches is most helpful.
It was 10 AM the day before the Fourth of July and my friend Kim and I were on a crusade for buckets of fresh-picked berries for pie. Kim had been to Trace View numerous times, as Bernie was a friend. The drive there, about 24 miles from the city center, is breakthtaking. We took Old Hillsboro Road through farm land of rolling white picket fences and old barns, not to mention the quaint town of Leiper’s Fork.