We continued bench-grafting in the shop for the third day in a row. Today was a big crowd that included a 13-year-old named Seamus who is destined to be one of the great grafters of the future. It was another propagation party! The shop was packed. The knives were slipping and sliding, and the chips were flying. In the end we grafted over 200 trees of dozens of varieties onto several different rootstocks. We also potted-on around a hundred and fifty apple seedlings including the various crosses we hand-pollinated last May. It was a busy place.

The bird feeder is becoming increasingly busy as well. Today we were visited by a Pine Warbler (Dendroica pinus) and a Northern Parula Warbler (Parula americana). The Parula is yellow and blue. Cammy has a note in her bird book that she saw her first one in Cambridge, MA in 1983—43 years ago almost to the day.