Yup, everything has been about 3 weeks early here as well for most of this season. I picked my entire crop (which was only about 2/3rds of a bushel, thanks to a woodchuck that stripped all of the lower branches just after the tree bloomed) of Williams Pride the last weekend in July -- amazingly early for me here. I need to pick my Stanley prune plums tomorrow, and those usually come in right around Labor Day here. My Bartlett pears seem to be bucking this trend, they traditionally ripen very late August to around Labor Day as well, and seem to be right on that schedule this year.

Yeah, some things are definitely ripening out of usual sequence as different varieties react to conditions differently. My Elephant Heart and Fortune plums are right about on schedule, other plums are very early. My Harcrest peaches usually ripen before Madison but are ripening after this year.

I just read in Russia the apple trees are blooming...in AUGUST! Something to do with the heatwave there..everything is all screwed up i think. I'm looking forward to "normal" weather again.