Friday, 7:30 AM. 60 degrees, wind NW, light with stronger gusts. The channel is dimpled. The sky is clear with a few clouds on the eastern horizon. From a good vantage point one can see the distant iron ranges.If the apple tree and the mountain ash tree in the yard are any indication, it should be a bumper harvest for Bayfield apple orchards. The mountain ash tree (not an ash at all but a member of the rose family) is loaded with berries to the breaking point. The European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, most used in landscaping, has orange to red berries. The native, Sorbus americana, is more shrub-like and has red fruit. It is found close to the great lakes and is really a boreal forest species. Birds eat the berries of both plants.
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