Back in NJ

9-7-07 SHORT HILLS: The trip to NJ was uneventful, and everything seems to be in order here. The yard had a bunch of weeds, viney stuff probably grown from seeds in bird poop. After about an hour of weeding, most of them are gone. The yard in Short Hills is heavily treed and presents a contrast to the flowery Vermont yard. This yard has its own attractiveness even without the flowers. On a sunny day the contrast of light and dark, chiaroscuro, is striking but hard to capture with the camera. The camera doesn’t have the ability to show the deep shadow and bright sun side by side that the eye, or the artist, has, but here are a couple attempts.

Chloe seems comfortable.


I have been draining the pool of rainwater by slow siphon, have pruned dead branches from rhodos and weeded. There is more to do, but no hurry to do it.

In bloom: hosta, rose-of-Sharon, fall weeds—oops, fall wild flowers.