IT WILL BE A BUMPER CROP

APPLES ARE RIPENING

Wednesday,  8:00 AM.  65 degrees F at the ferry dock, 61 on the back porch.  Wind N, light.  The sky is dark and stormy;  it has rained all night and continues to shower sporadically.  The bird baths are full.  The humidity is 95% and the barometer is steady for now, at 29.48".  It will be a rainy day.
   Apples are ripening, and the early varieties will soon be picked. Yellow transparents are already ripe, Johnamac and Gala will soon follow.  Farm fields and roadsides reveal old fashioned early varieties, their fruit already on the ground; and desert apples like lady apples can be found here and there.  All the trees are full of fruit, the branches bending under the weight.  It will be a bumper crop.