We started off the day picking pie cherries from one of our trees and baking a pie. These were the first pie cherries I'd ever had. I was dismayed at first when I tasted a cherry fresh from the tree -- they are indeed horribly sour and not palatable as fresh fruit. Pie cherries are very different from the sweet Rainier and Bing Cherries I've grown up eating fresh by the handful. Today's pie was an experiment to see if it was worth the effort of picking more than a bowl full. Well, I can tell you, sour cherry pie is delightful. The cherries are slightly tart but well balanced by the cinnamon and sugar in the filling. The sweet and tart taste reminds me a little bit of rhubarb pie. The small tree out by our old milking shed is just loaded with cherries, which made it easy to quickly gather more. After picking two more big bowls of the cherries, I pitted them and stashed them away in the freezer for future pies. At noon, it wa...