GATHERING STORM
MOUNTAIN ASH BERRIES TURNING ORANGETuesday, 7:15 AM. 70 degrees, wind W, dead calm. The channel is calm. The sky is black with rain clouds in the NW, but clearing in the SE. It is humid and feels like rain, which the barometer predicts.
The mountain ash (genus Sorbus) and the true ash (genus Fraxinus) are not even distantly related, mountain ash being in the rose family and true ash in the olive family. However, they both have pinnately compound leaves, therefore the common name, mountain ash. The mountain ash berries are turning orange now, and will be ripe in a week or two.
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