Garden Diary

including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events.

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

In the Bleak Mid-Winter.

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1-20-26 SHORT HILLS: “…the earth stood like iron, water like a stone, snow had fallen, snow on snow…” That’s from the hymn ‘In the Bleak Mi...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Eighty Eight.

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1-10-26 SHORT HILLS: We had some snow cover here in NJ, but a few warm days with rain have washed it all away except for the remnants of the...
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Thursday, January 01, 2026

Happy [?] New Year.

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1-1-26 SHORT HILLS: I realize that it’s been almost two weeks with no post. No post about Xmas, the Party, the weather, the guests, the dogs...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Warm Rain turned to Cold Ice.

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12-20-25 VERMONT: In typical New England fashion, it warmed up, into the fifties, rained at least an inch, which washed away a lot of the sn...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Vermont in December.

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12-17-25 VERMONT: We came up a few days ago. It is C-O-L-D here. The temps have been below freezing for more than a week. There is maybe a f...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Ragtime.

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12-9-25 SHORT HILLS: It’s been cold, unusually cold, with actual temps at night in the teens. Vermont is even colder. We are headed there th...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Freezing.

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12-3-25 SHORT HILLS: We have now had a hard frost, with a harder one to come tomorrow or tomorrow night. I was filling the bird feeder Monda...
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