Saturday, 6:45 AM.57 degrees, wind SSW, moderate. The channel is crawling. The sky is blue, and the barometer predicts rain.
It threatened rain for the last hundred miles coming home last night, the sky was angry and the wind blew fiercely, but nothing in the rain gauge, so I will have to water again.
We have had a succession of foreign guests staying at Garden View the past ten days, first a young couple and baby from Germany, who are visiting relatives, then a young Chinese couple who I assumed to be students, and the last four days another German family, the son a sophomore at UW Eau Claire, who had been a high school exchange student, and who intends to stay here. They have had a fine time hiking and swimming, have visited the sea caves, seen bear, deer, eagles and an elk, have taken many photos, and are going to see a Packer exhibition football game in Green Bay. I don’t think foreign travelers often come here directly, but if in the region anyway, we are certainly an attraction, and it makes life interesting.
The Urban Forestry Council meeting was more productive than such meetings usually are... we are developing an initiative to plant 20 million city trees in the state by the year 2020, which should give me something more to do, and for probably the rest of my life.
There were more obvious if subtle signs of fall while traveling, most notably the sensitive ferns, Onoclea sensibilis, so-called because they turn golden brown at the first hint of frost. There were other hints as well, such as a few golden tamaracks, and a few reddening maples. In the next several weeks there will be many more obvious signs, so it’s time to mark the hunting seasons on the calendar and get the guns out .
Lucky has to be picked up from the kennel this morning, as we got back too late last night to do so.
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