WORTH THE TRIP

US HIGHWAY 2 BOUQUET

Tuesday,  9:00 AM.  64 degrees F at the ferry dock, 60 on the back porch.  Wind NNE, light with stronger gusts.  The sky is clear but for some clouds on the eastern horizon. The humidity is 79% and the barometer, which is trending up, stands at 30.00".
   It rained all day yesterday, at times hard, other times slow and steady, sometimes a fine mist, leaving about .25" of rain in the gage. We spent the day going to Duluth for Joan to visit her eye doctor.  The roadsides and hillsides between Ashland and Superior were a veritable bouquet of colorful summer weeds and wildflowers: Queen Anne's lace, Achillea, black-eyed Susan, bouncing Bet, milkweed, fireweed, sweet Cicely, sunflowers and others.
   The floral display alone was worth the trip.