Dogberry trees, aka rowan trees, aka the mountain ash, have a much cited role in Newfoundland weather lore: big bunches of dogberries herald a hard winter. (Dogberries also keep witches from hanging around your garden.) Who knows the truth of that, but the dogberries are just wild this season, and, after yesterday's storm, they seem to pebble much of the city sidewalks in orange-red. And - just because you can never know enough about dogberries - Quickbeam, the "hasty" Ent in Lord of the Rings, was a dogberry tree.
(Image: www.heritage.nf.ca.)
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