Sunday, 10:00 AM. 75 degrees, wind W, very light. The channel is smooth, the sky mostly clear with some high, thin white clouds. Today is a “perfect ten.”
The beach was fantastic this morning early, deserted except for a few dogs out walking their owners, and a lone kayaker emerging from the Sioux river. I talked with him for a moment, he was in a neat little Kayak that looked extremely stable, a Walden Scout, he says he often fishes from it. The plants pictured are all natives of the beach and similar environs. The tiny white flower is a Ranunculus species, a white buttercup, which I could not key out exactly without putting in a whole day doing it. The blue is the native Iris versicolor, and the other is another meadow rue, I think either Thalictrum confine or T. venulosum. A large lake freighter is just now going south in the channel, towards Ashland.
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