Thursday, 8:00 AM. 62 degrees, wind W, just strong enough to stir the aspen leaves. The channel is lightly wrinkled, the sky is a hazy blue, and the barometer predicts rain. The lawn needs to be mown today.
The mountain maples, Acer spicatum, are blooming in the woods along 9th St. the spikey green blossoms are quite pretty, and the red-maple-like leaves turn a burnt orange color in the fall. It is a little known and seldom used northern native shrub/small tree.
The Rhododendrons do pretty well here, this one in a neighbor’s yard being quite hardy. Maybe Bayfield is the “Banana Belt of the Great Lakes.”
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