Things missing
We’ve had an unusual late summer and early autumn. The weather is perfectly normal; but what’s notable are the things missing.
The biggest missing thing is wild plums.
This part of Idaho has wild plums up the whazoo. In years past, they’ve been so thick, they’ve weighed down branches and carpeted the ground.
But this year? Nothing. Literally nothing. Zip, zilch, zero, nada. Of the hundreds of thousands of wild plum trees in the region, apparently not a single one yielded fruit. Lots of people were commenting on it.
Another thing missing this year, believe it or not, is blackberries. With wild blackberry bushes everywhere, normally there is tons of fruit.
This year? Absolutely nothing. And I mean nothing. The bushes all look healthy, but they bore not a single berry.
Another thing missing: Rose hips. Wild roses are a thorny staple around here, and they’ve always produced abundant rose hips.
Unlike the plums or the blackberries, there are some rose hips on some of the rose bushes, but they’re scare, small, and anemic, even though the rose bushes themselves seem healthy.
Another thing missing: Honey locust seed pods. We have a honey locust tree in our yard (when I photographed this, the leaves had almost all dropped).
Normally this trees drops hundreds of big honkin’ seed pods. This year? Hardly any, maybe one percent of the amount we normally get.
Another thing missing: Mushrooms. Last year we had loads and loads of mushrooms popping up everywhere.
This year? Nothing. I’ve seen precisely zero mushrooms around us. Last year we had tons, especially after a hike in the mountains. (To be fair, there might be mushrooms along the hiking path; we haven’t been there this year.)
The one thing that hasn’t been impacted this year is apples, both wild and domestic. We have thousands of wild apple trees, and they’ve been producing heavily (no doubt to the relief of the wildlife, considering the dearth of other fruit). Our own trees produced a bumper crop.
As for everything else, I have no idea why we’re having such a shortage of routine things. To the best of my knowledge, this year hasn’t been wetter or drier or hotter or colder than normal.
Go figure.
Source: http://www.rural-revolution.com/2024/11/things-missing.html
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