Friday, 7:30 AM. 47 degrees, wind E, calm to light. It was quite foggy an hour ago but the sun has come out and burned it all off. The barometer predicts rain but it is a bright , blue-sky morning. The channel is calm to slightly wrinkled.A bear is active again in the neighborhood, having gotten into a garbage dumpster just up the street and leaving his calling card in the middle of the road. He was probably sitting in the dumpster at sunup. If I get ambitious I will have to get up earlier one morning, put a leash on Lucky, and try to get a photo. The Park Service has closed the Meyers’ Beach Trail due to an aggressive sow with two cubs.
There are some old-fashioned shrubs that are often used in our landscapes, some good, some not-so-good. Pictured are a pink cultivar of Weigela, along with a “snowball” Viburnum, and a honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica. The only one worth growing, in my opinion, is the snowball Viburnum, which has good blooms and good fall color. The Weigela blooms nicely but is straggly and has nothing to offer in fall color. The honeysuckle is rather undistinguished and is extremely invasive and should not be grown.
Today is a lawn mowing day, as soon as things dry out a bit.
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