Cherries

The July 1st weekend is usually a good time to plan on harvesting the first cherries and this year things were just about right on time.  It seems not long ago that I posted about  the first blossoms on the cherry trees.  During the flowering period there were a number of very cool wet days and although I didn't see a lot of pollinating insects during flowering time, apparently I missed them because our crop is pretty good and driving through the valley other crops also look good.

Another sign of a good crop is not as many birds eating the cherries--just an average amount of crows, cedar wax wings and robins - there seems to be enough fruit trees to spread out the birds, so in the end we have more cherries from two trees than we could use. Grizzly