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| THUNDERHEAD, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON |
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| LUPINES ARE BLOOMING |
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| BIGGER THAN A TEXAS BLUEBONNET! |
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| A NEIGHBOR'S JAPANESE CHERRY |
Wednesday, 7:00 AM. 55 degrees, wind WSW, calm. The sky is mostly blue but hazy, the barometer predicts rain but it is a most pleasant morning.
The Lupines
, Lupinus perennis, have begun to bloom, and very soon the roadsides will be awash in their blue, white and pink blossoms. I have told our Texas contingent that the lupines are blooming in greeting, as they are a close relative of the Texas bluebonnets, although larger in stature and flower. They grow all around the south sore of Lake superior and the northern shore of Lake Michigan, and beyond.
There is a very nice Japanese cherry (don't know it's name) blooming down the street
large emerald ash borer beetle traps are appearing all over northwestern Wisconsin, traps meant to determine whether the EAB is appearing in the region. The pest has infested many southern Wisconsin locations but is not as yet this far north, although it evidently is winter hardy, as it has crossed the Mackinac bridge into Upper Peninsula Michigan. The beetles, which emerge from infected ash trees or firewood in early summer, are for some reason attracted to the color purple. The traps have a very sticky glue spread over their outside surface to snare the flying beetles, so they should not be touched; it would rather be like embracing the tar baby of the Uncle Remus stories.
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| EAB TRAP |
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| TRAP INFORMATION |
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