Ripe wild plums

Walking the dog, I noticed that now there are the tall coyote scats full of plum pits. For some reason or other, the dog thinks these are great. He totally ignores the regular scat with rabbit hair and other bits, but plum poop!

At any rate, even though the plums are a little sad in the whole, there are still large patches of lovely sweet ones. I ate a few, and offered one to the canine companion. He turned his nose up at the nice raw plum, full of sweet juice and filling the air with its lovely rose-like scent.

But the composted ones! How interesting.

I am glad I am not a dog.

And in other weather related news....

We have more moisture and more cool weather. My evening primroses are putting on a new show! My roses have mildew! I either overwater (it is raining!) or underwater (sudden hot spell). Sigh.

The wild plums look pretty sad this year, with galls, insect bites, and sun-burn. However, chokecherries are abundant. I should go out and gather a basket full to make pancake syrup with. The last time I tried to make jelly, we ended up with syrup. So maybe if the goal is syrup, it will work out well.

We also need to go into the Boulder Canyon and see if the grapes look good. If so, maybe some grape jelly is in order.

On a side note, I went to Hotchkiss this weekend, and stopped on the way at the Grizzly Creek rest stop in Glenwood Canyon. There, everything looked nice and green. The dogwood was blooming and in fruit at the same time. I don't know that I have seen that before.

The Colorado had a nice water flow going, and lots of people were out rafting and canoeing.