...LARGE SHRUB
Wednesday, 11:00 AM. Duluth. Waiting patiently to go home, probably tomorrow. The day looks nice, a bit hazy in the east but with no fog. There is enough of a westerly breeze to move the tall spruces near the lakeshore, but the waters are rather calm, there being only enough air movement to make them sparkle. I am still enjoying my "room with a view," but am ready to look out my own window.
I took some photos of choke cherry bushes in full bloom in Bayfield just before my trip to Duluth, and I present them here; they are probably still in bloom there today. Choke cherry, Prunus virginiana, bears red, (purple when ripe) berries in abundance. They are excellent wildlife food and are good for making jams and jellies, but are rather bitter to the taste when eaten raw, and thus their name. Choke cherry is a common shrub or small tree native to much of the more temperate forested portions of North America, and is a prevalent pioneer plant after forest fires or logging. Pin cherry, Prunus pensylvanica, has shinny brown bark and prominent lenticels when young.
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