Monthly Archives: June 2007

According to the kids holding walkie talkies and directing traffic at the berry patch, 2007 has been the worst year for berries in the 57 years the farm has been operating. Something about the heat and lack of rain, I think. Personally I found the picking a little slow, but the fruit was nice and it was still well worth the trip.
The season ends soon. Get out to your patch before it does.

In case you didn’t notice, the northwest corner of Lake Calhoun has been outfitted with a hot new wardrobe for summer. It’s mostly orange – so it won’t rhyme with anything – and it was hand delivered by the local dutch elm police.
I counted something like 16 trees that’ll be coming down, including many of the largish variety on the boulevard between the paths and the parkway. Bummer.
Here’s to hoping it doesn’t go crazy and lay waste to that whole section of lakeshore. I know further south it’s mostly oak, but there are a lot of elms up that way and in a couple of years it could easily go from shade to savannah. Then again, elephants like the savannah, and it sure would be cool to have some elephants in town for a while. They could wander around and eat peanuts and go sailing and maybe jump off the dock over by the Tin Fish a few times. They could even put together a team for the pond hockey championships. I bet they’d just own the ice.
Hope elephants like milfoil.