SKY BLUE ASTER

RAIN-ROILED CHEQUAMAGEN BAY AT ASHLAND

SKY BLUE ASTER

Wednesday, 8:30 AM.  60 degrees F at the ferry dock, 56 on the back porch.  The wind is mainly from the N and calm to light.  The sky is mostly cloudless.  The humidity is 77% and the barometer is still rising, currently at 30.19".
   Buddy and I went to the beach this morning, I for a walk, he for a much needed leg stretch.  We met a fisherman in full regalia, anxious for the fall run of steelhead and coho to begin going up the Sioux River. He was probably a a week or two early.
   The Chequamegon Bay is silted and roiled from the torrential thunder storms we had on Sunday night. This is a sight usually seen in early spring from snow melt runoff.
   The sky blue aster, Aster azureus, has joined the ranks of fall asters now in bloom. It is a tall, strong aster, very floriferous, with flower colors from light to somewhat darker sky blue.