"IT AIN'T JUST APPLES," II

CRAB APPLES ARE LOADED WITH FRUIT

RED OAK ACORNS ARE DROPPING ON THE ROADS

THE FIRST TOMATOES ARE RIPPENING

Tuesday, 8;00 AM.  64 degrees F at the ferry dock, 59 degrees on the back porch.  Wind W, with light to moderate gusts.  The sky is partly cloudy with wispy stratospheric clouds.  The humidity is 77% and the barometer is steady, at 29.78".  We may get some rain tonight.
   We are entering the harvest season, and although Bayfield is apple country, a lot more than apples  are ripening.  Crabapples, closely related to domestic apples and used as pollinators by the orchards, are also bearing a bumper crop of fruit.
   Red oak (Quercus rubra) acorns are maturing, and dropping onto the roads.
   And right on time, the tomatoes are ripening in the garden.  On Sunday, August 31, there was not a hint of red on my tomato bushes.  But on Monday there was a ripening tomato.
   Fall begins on Labor Day in the Northland.