The Freeze Arrives.

12-9-06 SHORT HILLS: It finally got cold. The last few days we have had frozen mud, standing water is ice, when the wind blows, I’m cold even with gloves and a hat. Forsythia have been opening scattered flowers for a few weeks, but not any longer. Sticks and branches continue to rain down on the yard. The leaves are gone, the gutters are clean. The garden season is done for the year.

relaxing after a year of gardening.

We saw a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” by the Packer middle school Thursday night. Are you surprized, dear reader, to be informed that a relation of ours was in the cast. It was pretty good. I put a few video snippets on You Tube—search for Fiddler/Packer under Music.

the dramatic wedding scene.

Tonight we see “A Prairie Home Companion” in one of the NYC appearances, and tomorrow we hear the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir do Bach at NJPAC in Newark.

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