10/15/10 THE LAST ROSES OF SUMMER, AND A FAILED GET RICH QUICK IDEA

WHAT KIND OF A DAY WILL IT BE?
IT HAS BEEN A GOOD YEAR FOR ROSES IN BAYFIELD
...AND STILL BLOOMING
Friday, 8:15 AM. 49 degrees, wind NW, calm. The sky is overcast but the barometer is up, predicting fair weather.
It has been a good year for roses, which are still blooming, and a wonderful fall in general. The oak across the street that I have been so enthusiastic about turned from red-maroon to brown overnight, and Dan, the propagator at Northwoods, has informed me that red oaks cannot be successfully propagated asexually, so I will have to wait until my ‘Bayfield’ oak produces acorns to propagate it, and then there will of course be a wide variation in the seedlings. Won’t make a million dollars on that idea.