Return to NJ.

5-16-26 SHORT HILLS: The trip home was slow, every driver In New England, New York and New Jersey was out on the road and the traffic was heavy. It was nice to see the sun again and to feel it. 

There was less rain here, 0.45 inches. I don’t know how much fell in VT, but it must have been a couple inches.  

I saw a couple unusual birds in VT a spotted sandpiper, who’s at home on the edge of brooks and ponds, and a small bird in the apple tree with large yellow and black markings on its head and face.

New blooms: chokecherry, lilac. 

Chokecherry is a ncie shrub with good orange color in the fall. wildlife eat the berries, humans make jam.

Spotted sandpiper next to the pond.

Lilac. What smells nicer?