Thursday, 8:00 AM. 53 degrees, wind ENE, calm. Bayfield is enveloped in fog, we got about .3” of rain last night and the barometer predicts more. We are heading to Milwaukee for an Urban Forestry Council meeting and hope the fog will lift soon so we can take Hwy 2 along the lake east to Hurley. There will be no blog tomorrow.
The female cones on the larch trees are things of minute beauty, perfect purple rosebud-like structures.
The native high bush cranberries,
Viburnum trilobum, are in bloom, but they are not a cranberry at all.
Sweet woodruff flowers are blooming under our pine trees.
Asperula odorata is of European origin, long grown in gardens and often escapes to the woods. It is fragrant when dried and can be used to flavor white wine, as “May wine.’ Add a few blooming sprigs to a bottle and let it steep for a week or so.
The Town of Bay View has erected a toilet facility and a picnic shelter on Bay View Beach Road, a nice amenity added to the Sioux River Beach.
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| RHUBARB AND ONIONS |
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| SWEET WOODRUFF |
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| MINUTE BEAUTY |
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| HIGHBUSH CRANBERRYFOWERS |
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| A NEW BIFFY |
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| AND PICNIC SHELTER |
News item: a motorcyclist in central Wisconsin was killed when he ran into a wolf. It looks like the bikers should be put on the endangered species list.
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