Blueberry Pirouettes

Like lingonberries, blueberries grow wild on sunny hillsides and in sunny patches of the forest all over Scandinavia and in the northern United States and Canada. When I was a child, my mom and dad kept a close eye on their secret blueberry patches in the early fall, as the berries had to be picked as soon as they turned from a reddish shade to that beautiful blue color. The trouble was that their secret place was often someone else’s secret place as well. Whoever didn’t get there first was