Thursday, 6:00 AM, temperature 69 degrees, wind W, light. The channel is calm, the sky mostly cloudless and there is some haze over the Island. It will be a warm summer day.
The black locusts, Robinia pseudoacacia, are blooming along Eleventh and Manypenny, their presence heralded by the sweetest of perfumes. I like the old black locusts but many consider them an invasive weed tree, even though they are a North American native. They were spread all over the continent in settlement times because of the usefulness of the rot-resistant wood for fence posts, in the days before steel posts. There are few trees more attractive to bees. They have some problems but I would miss them if there were none around.
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