6/24/11 LOTS OF POLLEN, RIPENING FRUIT, AND SUNSHINE

FIFTY-FIFTY SKY

AMERICAN VETCH

RIPENING JUNEBERRIES

CONCOLOR FIR POLLEN CONES

Friday, 8:15 AM.  58 degrees, wind variable, changing from NW to W, very gusty.  The sky is cloud covered in the north and east, clear in the west.  The barometer is up and a high is moving in at last, after seven days of rainy weather.
    Juneberries, Amelanchier canadensis,  are ripening, the trees and bushes loaded with fruit.  It should be a great year for apples as well.  The birds and animals will get most of the Juneberries as they are small and hard to pick, although quite good.
    American vetch, Vicea americana, is blooming in the fields and roadsides now, straggly but quite pretty.
    All the conifer species are ready to release their pollen if they have not already done so.