Forest walk, garden harvest

Our walk today was in the forest behind our house. This picture is taken just 3 minutes away from our front door.
I read somewhere that a pine tree, after it has died, can stand in the forest  as long as it stood when it was alive. 
The dead trees are a good natural resource. Birds like the easy perching. Mosses & lichens grow on the dead branches. Insects and grubs both live in and on the dead tree. Woodpeckers like to eat those insects and grubs.  The dead trees often stand up to fierce storms better than the living trees, because they have no green growth catching the wind.
The forest grows very quickly. Our elderly neighbour stopped walking in the forest about 4 years ago and the path from his house has now disappeared completely. Today we walked with our secateurs, clipping back the small trees growing in, or into our path. We leave the pine and fir alone because that's the farmer's cashcrop, but snip back the birch, alder and juniper  rowan trees.
After the walk I tamed (ripped up!) the grass and nettles  taking over the redcurrant bush that I blipped a couple of days ago. Then I picked all the redcurrants. 
I enjoy picking on a warmish day. There's something very calming about the process. I often take a garden chair and sit there working my way along each branch in turn, slowly working my way around the bush. In this case I was also picking the weeds and snipping off ground shoots from the nearby plum tree as I went. Earlier in the day (pre-breakfast) I'd worked my way along the raspberry canes in one part of the garden. They are taller than the redcurrant bushes so that's a mixture of standing and sitting. Then I moved on to the black berries. No sitting there! I actually use a ladder to reach some of the tallest canes!
A few of the berries go directly onto breakfast, or get nibbled from a bowl  during the day. The rest are in the freezer.
After the rain of yesterday it was lovely to see the sun. We got a few showers today but I can live with that.