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| SURFES UP: GALE FORCE EAST WINDS YESTERDAY |
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| THE HUMMINGBIRDS ARE INDEED BACK (AT LEAST THE MALES) |
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| CHERRY TREES IN BLOOM AT APPLE HILL ORCHARD |
Yesterday the east wind blew maniacally all day long, shrieking and moaning as though possessed. Buddy and I walked the Sioux River Beach and it almost blew us away, it must have been forty MPH at least.
Joan said the surf resembled Milwaukee's Bradford Beach years ago, where we, while students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, used to sit in our cars during a "nor'easter" and let the wind-blown surf wash over our cars as we ate lunch. I am sure that opportunity has long since been erased by progress of one sort or another.
I did manage to take a photo of the male hummingbird that I saw the other day. He hung on grimly for a long time, trying not to get blown off the feeder. I think he was contemplating the wisdom, or lack thereof, of leaving the Caribbean.
The cherry trees at Apple Hill Orchard on Hwy. J are in full bloom and are a lovely sight. They grow the cultivars 'Lapin' and 'Cavalier,' both of which are vegetatively hardy but can loose buds or blooms, and therefore a whole crop of sweet cherries, due to a late frost, which will occur every few years. I am told a good crop can more than make up for a previous year's loss economically. So far so good this year, as long as the honey bee pollinators don't shirk their jobs.
The soft bark of young cherry trees can be badly damaged by sun scorch in late winter, particularly when the sun's slanting ray's are reflected off the snow; therefore the whitewash, which reflects the sun and protects the tree bark.
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