7-25-13 SHORT HILLS: We’re back in NJ to drop the boys off at EWR for a non-stop flight to SFO. You can’t go anywhere non-stop from VT. I took them to the airport this AM without a hitch through traffic, through the ‘Unaccompanied Minors’ desk, through security to the gate. After a sojourn in the waiting area they boarded first and the plane left on time. A few minutes later the airport was shut down with an emergency landing, apparently a minor episode, and is now open again. They just landed safely in San Fran.
Here the weather is almost cool. It’s overcast and the winds are calm. In the yard, it’s a bit weedy and overgrown, but nothing has died. Lots of the trees and shrubs have dead twigs with brown leaves hanging from the ends of live branches. The work of the cicada, they lay eggs in the growing twigs. The larvae hatch out, killing the twig, drop to the ground and burrow in for their seventeen-year nap.
In bloom: rose-of-Sharon, roses, hydrangea.
Nice color on this hydrangea.
Rose-of-Sharon, a mid-summer treat.
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