A Day at the Museum.

4-3-12 SHORT HILLS: We did get rain on Saturday and more on Sunday night, but less than a half inch total. Saturday we went to the Met Museum to catch up on the recent exhibits. We saw the Stein collection, the Lehman collection, the Degas-Rembrandt portraits, the nude photos and the re-modeled American Wing. We spent the most time in the American Wing which didn’t seem that different to me. It has great furniture and clocks, and we love the period rooms.

It has continued to be warmer than normal, and I have been working in shirt sleeves doing lots of routine stuff. I have pruned, moved some volunteers, hauled cuttings to the dump, brought back compost from the dump for filling holes and planting. Today I cut back overgrown yews in the pool area and started watering my recent plantings because we are getting dry.

New blooms: barberry, dandelion.


St. Gaudens Diana was atop a previous version of Madison Square Garden.

Wisteria, stained glass window, by LCT.

On the way out we were nearly trampled by the knights in Arms and Armor.