Cherry Copters

This is what you wake up to on a rainy day here this time of year. The cherry copters. It's cherry harvest time - in fact, this weekend is the Cherry Festival. Should be a bumper crop this year, but if cherries get wet when they're just about ready to harvest, they burst. So after every shower, the Flathead Cherry Growers' Association sends around the cherry copters to dry off the orchards. This is the orchard just down the hill from our house, getting dried off:

This goes into the ever-growing file of "stuff I didn't know until I moved to Montana," like the fact that black bears come in different colors, what a shore station is, and how to use a chainsaw.