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| MORE CRABAPPLES?... |
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| ...NOPE, THEY'RE HEDGE MAPLE SEEDS |
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| YESTERDAY EVENING'S GORGEOUS RAINBOW... |
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| ...BECAME A DOUBLE AS WE WATCHED |
Thursday, 8:00 AM. 62 degrees F, wind westerly but changeable. A severe thunderstorm with 80 MPH winds and baseball sized hail is part of a large system moving in fast from the west, and it is threatening the Hayward area and other points to our south. Hopefully the worst of it will miss Bayfield. The humidity is 91% and we have only received a trace of rain so far, but conditions are very threatening. The barometer is plummeting as this system passes through and is now at 29.81" and heading lower.
We witnessed a gorgeous rainbow yesterday evening after a quick thunderstorm. It seemed to rise right out of the channel off the LaPointe ferry dock. Maybe there is a shipwreck with a pot of gold in its hold out there. As we watched in awe it became a double bow.
Seeing a small to medium-sized tree with red fruits in Bayfield, one assumes it is a flowering crab apple. But look again! It may well be a Eurasian hedge maple,
Acer campestre, bearing bright red, double-winged maple seeds.
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