Rainiest.

5-20-11 SHORT HILLS: I felt the need to get in a last post before the end of the world at 6 PM tomorrow. Do you suppose that is 6 PM eastern standard time or daylight saving time or Greenwich Mean Time? Well, if it should come to pass that we’re still here, still coping and struggling, after tomorrow, come back for post-apocolypse analysis. As best as I can understand it, the date of 5-21-11 is exactly 7000 years since Noah’s flood. I’m almost ready to start on my own ark.

We have had another 0.5 inches of rain to bring our total for the week to 4.6 inches. Now, I know many places can get that much rain in an afternoon, but it’s a wet week here. Our lawn people came by this afternoon and said that it was too wet and muddy to mow.

Yesterday we saw an excellent production of “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry at the Packer Middle School in Brooklyn Heights. Granddaughter Lucy was the prince and performed marvelously. Tomorrow we see her sister, Maggie, in a community theater production of “Bye Bye Birdie”.

New blooms: first rose, Asian lilac, black chokeberry.


Black Chokeberry. The white flowers yield black berries, and the leaves turn deep orange in autumn.

Rhododendron-not too showy.