More May.

5-16-13 SHORT HILLS: Yesterday was cool and overcast with a few brief showers. I finished the bamboo work, hauled the stalks up to the driveway, with help from Judy, filled the back of the Subaru and piled the rest on top for the trip to the dump today. I didn't leave the bamboo debris here because it's not a wild area.

Today we’ve got eighties. The tomatoes are outside on holiday in the sun this afternoon.

New blooms: jack-in-the-pulpit, Solomon’s seal, star-of-Bethlehem, mulberry, red twig dogwood.


Columbine, extra-fancy, showing off.

Red twig dogwood has red twigs only in the winter.

Double file viburnum with the center flowers open, and a pollinator at work proves it.

Solomon's Seal, hiding its flowers.