Back in NJ.

8-31-25 SHORT HILLS: We’ve been back here for a few days and are getting settled in. We each have many doctor visits in September. The weather is great except we need rain here just as we do in VT. 

Tennis is on the TV from early to quite late, and we’ve been watching a lot of it. We are having dinner with Bette, Lonnie and Ellen and Bruce at a certain country club in West Caldwell tonight. Tomorrow we host Lynn and Bill here. 

New blooms: VT-white star clematis, pink turtle head.

                      NJ-Rose-of-Sharon, caryopteris, crape 

                            myrtle, hydrangea, abelia.          

Raven and Peachez admiring the new pasture gate.

Pink turtle head getting started as we left VT.

Rose-of-Sharon. We have these all over the NJ yard, and I took a couple to VT last fall, and they are doing fine. Some years ago I did the same thing, but they died in the winter. Climate change?