MORE BAYFIELD BERRIES

BAYFIELD RASPBERRIES ARE RIPE!

STRAWBERREIS ARE STILL BEING PICKED AND ARE DELICIOUS

RED MULBERREIS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVEOP

Monday, 7:45 AM.  69 degrees F, wind SW, calm with occasional light gusts.  The sky is mostly clear but very hazy.  The humidity is 89% and the barometer is trending down slightly, currently at 29.84".  Today looks like it will be a virtual repeat of yesterday, hopefully leading to some rain showers tonight.  With the weather as warm as it has been,  newly planted trees and shrubs need either significant rainfall or watering.
   Rocky Acres Berry Farm has raspberries, we got some yesterday and they are wonderful.  Strawberries are still being picked, a bountiful and delicious crop this year, so much better than the huge California "pretenders" from the grocery store, which are O.K. until compared with the real thing.
   The mulberry tree at the edge of the woods across the street is loaded with berries this year.  They are still small and unripe.  I have gone back and forth over the years as to whether it is the native Morus rubra or the European M. alba.  The native is officially found only in the far south of the state,  and then but rarely, but neither the leaves nor the fruit look to me like alba, which I know well from living in Nebraska and Ohio.  Maybe it is a hybrid. In the past almost every farmstead had its mulberry tree, so who knows.  Anyway it bears heavily, and even though it blew over several years ago it continues to thrive.  It's a lot easier to reach the fruit now, although the neighborhood bears will get most of it.