Very Rainy Day.

5-9-08 SHORT HILLS: We had a showery day yesterday, but we did get in a dog walk, and I finished the packasandra transplants. Today we have heavy rain. Rain sounds different with the leaves out than with the deciduous trees bare.

Those leaves came out mostly in the last week. The white ash are late as usual, but they follow their own schedule. They are the last to leaf out and the first to dump in the fall so they have the shortest in-leaf season. This probably means they have the most efficient metabolism.

New blooms: wild cherry, deutzia, more viburnums, honey suckle shrubs.


Leucothoe flowers look a bit like andromeda or lily-of-the-valley.

Deutzia called bridal wreath.