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| BIG LAKER BEING LOADED WITH WESTERN COAL |
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| ASPEN BEGINNING TO BLOOM |
Tuesday, 8:30 AM. 46 degrees F, wind WSW, very brisk at times.The sky is completely overcast and the barometer predicts rain. It is a dull, cool day.
The aspen trees (Populus tremuloides) and other poplars, collectively called “popple” in the vernacular, are beginning to bloom, the male and female catkins are on different trees, all of which are beginning to look alive, gray-green and fuzzy.
I had an appointment in Duluth yesterday afternoon, and can report that the Great Lakes shipping season is well under way, with ships actively leaving their winter births, although some look as though winter maintenance never caught up to them. The big laker pictured was being loaded with coal from a veritable mountain of the stuff, which must have come from western mines by train. I would guess its destination is Midwestern steel mills or electrical generation plants, as the ship looks too long for the St. Lawrence Sea Way locks and access to the Atlantic Ocean. The photo was taken while heading east on the Blatnik Bridge between Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. The coal dock is located in Superior.
Both President Obama and Senator Santorum committed verbal gaffes yesterday, the president having a “hot mike” experience in which he sounded as though he were alluding to secret concessions to Russia on arms control if he were reelected, and the senator getting hot under the collar at a reporters question, and using the minor expletive “bull shit.” I pass judgment on neither situation, but I can guarantee that the liberal press will virtually ignore the first, and blow the second out of all proportion.
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