On Aug 13, 3:51*pm, DaveS wrote:


Went out myself about 11pm pacific time. It had been mildly overcast
but was reasonably clear. didn't see squat but heard deer moving
around me, . . . *gobbling up the dead fall apples.

Apples have been dropping early here......"wild" apples anyway. Kind
of tough to determine what qualifies as "wild' though. Pretty much
all of Larry's 80ish acres were pasture when he aquired the property
20 or so years ago. Apples, sumac, autumn olive, buckthorn, cherry
(various species) maples (various species), plums, birch, aspen
(various species), and a host of others have sprung up in the
meantime. Pretty difficult to sort them all out, particularly since
it's been by far the warmest and wettest summer in living memory in
this part of the world (well, in MY memory, anyway.....and I am pretty
much living as far as I can tell). A year ago there were enough
walnuts, butternuts, hickories, hazelnuts and, especially, chestnuts
to distract one from paying much attention to what might be amiss in
the natural succession. This year.....well, things have changed.

A good break
outside on a cool clear night. Need to get out of Dodge and FISH.

Hot as hell (and a great deal more humid, one suspects) here last
night. Woke up on the deck some time in the wee hours (not the least
bit chilly......MOST unusual) and stumbled into bed.

Dave

giles