Sopping up the Culture.

more vermont color.

sunrise.

10/26/06 SHORT HILLS: Another week has slipped by without a post. I hope I don’t get fired for neglecting the blog. My favorite weather almanac site is up and running again: . Vermont had its first frost on October 25, but Short Hills hasn’t been lower than 35°F as yet. Both areas have had over 4.5 inches of rain this month. Here, in New Jersey, the ash trees are bare and some maples are turning, but oaks and beeches are still green. In mid-Vermont all the leaves are down.

We have had a busy week. Monday we heard “Cav and Pag” at the Met. That Maria Guleghina can really carry a tune. And last night we went to the Philharmonic for Beethoven’s Fifth and a lecture by Peter Schickele . Saturday we will take Anna to “A Chorus Line” for her birthday. Tomorrow we may go to the Met Museum and on Halloween to Valerie’s in Brooklyn for the Garden Place extravaganza. I hope we don’t completely use up NYC.

I have surprisingly little interest in the World Series, but it would be nice if the Cardinals lost. Go Tigers--and Dems.

Here are a couple more of fall color.