I have a hard time believing I have no pictures – at all – of ripe elderberry fruit. After digging through file after unfruitful file, I thought it might be faster to just go get a new photo.

Not quite.

The berries aren’t ripe yet here at Wild Ozark.

But maybe they are on top of the hill.

A not-so-quick 4-wheeler ride out there tells me not quite.

So, I’m back to digging through photo files to see if I can stumble across it. I know it’s in there somewhere. There’s just no way possible I’ve never taken a picture of it while the fruit was ripe.