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| FIRST JUNEBERRY BLOOMS |
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| A STAR MAGNOLIA BLOSSOM THAT ESCAPED THE FROST |
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| SUNDAY'S S SUNSET |
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| IT'S A NICE MORNING, FOR NOW |
Monday, 8:00 AM. 38 degrees F, up from 33 degrees an hour ago. Wind S, calm. The channel waters are like glass. The sky is clear with some haze, the humidity is high, and the barometer predicts rain. But for now it is a beautiful morning.
The Juneberries (called shadbush out East) are just bursting into bloom, and the one pictured is the first I have seen. There are several species of Juneberries native to northern Wisconsin, some are treelike and some more shrubby. This one is Amelanchier laevis . A. laevis is somewhat more showy in bloom and more often sold in the nursery trade. Their native ranges overlap to a considerable degree, and both species bear small, cherry-like, edible blue-black fruits that the birds love.
I don’t want to leave readers of yesterday’s blog with a totally negative opinion of Wisconsin’s labor history, since along with, and probably to a degree because of, the state’s ongoing labor turmoil, there were a number of beneficial outcomes, such as the first workmen’s compensation law in the United States, passed in 1911, and the first unemployment compensation law in the United States, passed in 1932. These and other “firsts” have given credence to the state motto, “Forward”.
Unfortunately, much of the industrial and economic policy of the state has been “Backward” for a long, long time.
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