79/365 An earlier season

This blog has proven to be useful in more ways than one, and in this case, it's serving as seasonal documentation.

In what way specifically? I've found that the cherries have ripened several weeks earlier this year than last.

Last year, I posted my photo of ripening cherries on June 15. And we picked them and made crisp on June 22.

This year? We picked and enjoyed our cherry crisp on June 8. The cherries on the tree in this photo are post-picking.

I wonder, what aspect of our difference in seasons made the cherries ripen early? Is that a good thing, a bad thing, or just a thing?

Camera: Canon 40D with 60mm macro lens, 1/125s, f/2.8 at ISO 250 at about 7:30 p.m.