7-4-20 SHORT HILLS: We came down to NJ to run a bunch of errands here that we couldn’t do last spring because of Covid, mostly medical visits. It’s very hot here, and it doesn’t cool off in the evening. I was out in the yard yesterday—I cut down a dead Asian holly tree, a casualty of the drought. Our copper beech tree looks bad, I’ll soak it.
It’s Independence Day, of course, and we were reflecting on the sorry state of the country. Racial conflict still exists in many areas and regions, less so where we live and less so than the forties and fifties, but so often in law enforcement. We can’t do without police, but it must be possible to weed out the racist officers if municipalities want to.
Equally distressing is the continued presence of the wannabe dictator in the White House, largely responsible for the pathetic response to the Covid pandemic, inarticulate, abusive, divisive, lying, incompetent, traitorous, racist and sexist. The polls are turning against him, but they’re snap shots, not forecasts, but, hopefully, will mean his ouster is going to happen. I look forward to multiple indictments by the SD-NY.
I don’t look forward to a new wave of Covid cases in the later summer and fall after all the parties and crowding this and other weekends. We may be back in VT for the duration of the pandemic.
What do we need? Joe Biden, an effective vaccine and better policing. How do we get them? Give green to the blue team, vote blue—vote by mail to avoid lines and viruses, take the vaccine when it comes out, support police reform.
In bloom: southern magnolia, hypericum, hydrangea, rosebay rhododendron, lamium, spirea.
Hydrangea season.
Blue.
Pink, also violet and white.
Hypericum with large flowers and below...
Hypericum with small flowers. Hypericum is also known as St. John's wort.
Southern Magnolia has, by far, the largest magnolia flowers. They bloom in ones and twos for a long period during the summer.
Southern Magnolia, day one above and day two below, not lacking for pollinators.
It’s Independence Day, of course, and we were reflecting on the sorry state of the country. Racial conflict still exists in many areas and regions, less so where we live and less so than the forties and fifties, but so often in law enforcement. We can’t do without police, but it must be possible to weed out the racist officers if municipalities want to.
Equally distressing is the continued presence of the wannabe dictator in the White House, largely responsible for the pathetic response to the Covid pandemic, inarticulate, abusive, divisive, lying, incompetent, traitorous, racist and sexist. The polls are turning against him, but they’re snap shots, not forecasts, but, hopefully, will mean his ouster is going to happen. I look forward to multiple indictments by the SD-NY.
I don’t look forward to a new wave of Covid cases in the later summer and fall after all the parties and crowding this and other weekends. We may be back in VT for the duration of the pandemic.
What do we need? Joe Biden, an effective vaccine and better policing. How do we get them? Give green to the blue team, vote blue—vote by mail to avoid lines and viruses, take the vaccine when it comes out, support police reform.
In bloom: southern magnolia, hypericum, hydrangea, rosebay rhododendron, lamium, spirea.
Hydrangea season.
Blue.
Pink, also violet and white.
Hypericum with large flowers and below...
Hypericum with small flowers. Hypericum is also known as St. John's wort.
Southern Magnolia has, by far, the largest magnolia flowers. They bloom in ones and twos for a long period during the summer.
Southern Magnolia, day one above and day two below, not lacking for pollinators.
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