9-1-13 SHORT HILLS: We have been back in NJ for a few days. It doesn’t feel at all like fall here. The days have been identical since the rainstorm on the day we arrived—hot, humid, overcast skies and still air. Strolling around the yard is enough to raise a sweat. Things here are weedy, and many trees and shrubs have dead terminal twigs hanging from branches, the work of the cicadas, now dormant for another seventeen years.
In Vermont I noticed that autumn sedum and bottle gentian were opening up before I left.
In bloom: crepe myrtle, St. John’s wort, roses, rose-of-Sharon, lamium, wild asters, other fall wildflowers.
St. John's Wort, one of several
Hypericum species.
Crepe Myrtle, one of several
Lagerstroemia species.
Roses also come in thousands of species and varietals.
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