micky wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:46:33 -0400, Jim Elbrecht
wrote:

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Here's my guess--
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...ts_2009_G1.jpg

That photo is 'next week' for those 'bunches of grapes'.

Didn't understand this at first. Yes, the picture is after all the
grapes have burst, which has pretty much happened in the last two
days. Maybe cutting the branches from the trunk sped it up.

It's a cottonwood tree, which is a kind of poplar.

Soft wood- good for lumber, and turning- but not much else.

One page said it was hard wood but a soft kind. !!

Yup-- I'd say that too, though I don't remember the specifics of
*why*. In woodworking terms, yellow pine is soft-wood, though it is
harder than poplar which is hard-wood.

It has been explained to me in the past-- but those brain cells seem
to have disappeared.

Jim