Thursday, 7:30 AM. 41 degrees, wind is NE, calm. The skies are overcast and .4 inches of rain fell last night, the barometer predicts more.
The paper birch, Betula papyrifera, and the American hazlenut, Corylus americana, are producing their new catkins (flowers). Both are in the birch family, in the birch(the photo with my hand in it) both male and female flowers are produced in different catkins, and in the hazlenut, only the male flowers are catkins, the insignificant female flower producing the hazlenut when fertilized.
Last night’s rain has produced roads covered with thousands of earth worms. The robins should have a good breakfast (to each his own). Come to think of it, catkins look and feel kind of like worms.
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