Rose Hips

While picking yet more blackberries from behind our house I was noticing this beautiful bush. It was loaded with these bright orange and red things that look like miniature apples.  Looking further I realized that it was a wild rose bush and that the little miniature apple looking things were rose hips.  If you have never seen them, they are so pretty. So, of course being on fire with learning about canning and using the things around you locally I looked them up online and found out that they are really good for you and can help with many different health issues.  Having heart problems that run in my family, I am very interested in doing more preventative things now.  Rose hips are loaded with vitamin C, even more than oranges.   Well, that is all I needed to know so I read more about how to harvest them and now my counter top is full of drying rose hips.  It is a bit tricky taking the seeds out and stuff but I figure 'what the heck' . They are free right!