A VERY CLEAR DAY
WEEPING WILLOW BLOSSOMES (sorry, upside down)
CRACK WILLOW CATKINSTuesday, 7:30 AM. 40.5 degrees, up three degrees in the past 45 minutes. Wind SSW, calm. The sky is blue and clear, the outline of St. Peter’s Dome in the Penokee Range was visible earlier on the southeastern horizon.
The willows are a complex, interbred genus but I do know a few of them in flower, beginning with the earliest pussy willows. The old craggy-barked crack willows along 9th street are dressed up in very pretty blooms, and the pendulous branches of the big weeping willows on 8th and Manypenny are adorned with exquisite chartreuse catkins.
The tree board meeting last night attracted five tree lovers, and no tree haters showed up.
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