love blackberries.  I love picking them, eating them, cooking with them. A few weeks ago I observed there were many blackberries on nearby bushes that they were rotting. Excited about the abundance of blackberries, I returned a few days ago ready to pick all the ripe berries for a cobbler. To my surprise and dismay, the blackberries were shriveled, hard and pruning. There was a hardly a good blackberry to be found. Across the walkway though, where there was a lot of foot traffic, and where berries were picked regularly, the bushes were producing plump and abundant berries.