Agra Mining

     I watched today as I drove south on US 23 a large mechanical spraying machine moving over a bottom land field at an amazing pace.  With spraying arms extended it looked like some type of big insect with appendages spreading venom.

    But I refocused on the sarvisberry trees.  Sarvisberrys seem to be the first wild trees to bloom in Appalachia. Sarvisberry is the common name for genus Amelanchier.  I always look at their blooms as the precursor to the dogwoods (we have a nice stand of dogwoods on the farm).  In this small southern Ohio town there are a number of cultivated flowering pear trees blooming.  One of the Almelancheir common names is wild pear.

    The sun and cool weather made the drives and walks today very pleasant.