Back in the Heat.

4-15-26 SHORT HILLS: Now it’s July, but the end of the week looks like March. However nothing stops the parade. 

I saw a brown-headed cowbird and a tiger swallowtail butterfly this week but no pix of either one.

We had dinner with Bill and Lynn last night. Lynn is just back from Argentina and was in Egypt last month.

We had 0.1 inches of rain recently, and things are getting dry with the heat, but the sprinklers are on. The fence repairs were also done yesterday.

New blooms: redbud, dogwood, Kwanza cherry, apple, barberry, trout lily, clatonia.

Another ephemeral, clatonia has a pretty little flower if you can get low enough to see it.

Kwanzan cherry is another pink.

Dogwood is just opening.

Redbud also came out on pink week.

The quince is still making new flowers as the older ones turn from white to pink. This change is a signal to the pollinators that that flower is done.