Roaming around town

Today I just felt like "spying" around the town, the western side to be more precise, an area with fewer roads. No sprawling suburbia. This is where there's lots of farms and ranches. Driving only a few minutes away from our house I saw cattle, goats, chickens and lots of grapevines, how about that. Admittedly I kind of knew that, but I had never given it much thought. Above is a snapshot I took earlier today right beside the road, pretty much right next door to a regular subdivision.

Next to some unused railroad tracks, with a small creek going by, is a long wonderful stretch of wild Blackberry bushes that were until recently big, sweet and ripe. But now they have really shriveled up. (The season is now over, according to my "What's In Season-listing) The berries have been very enjoyable with plain whole milk yogurt. Wikipedia seems to hint that they could perhaps be black Raspberry's? I can't be sure.