Fire in the Yard.

11-12-15 SHORT HILLS: I finished the clean-up in VT on Monday. I did the beds around the pond, the veggie beds, and the day lily bed. There was a huge flock of honking geese that went by in the morning, so high they looked like bugs. Dinner with Lily and Sam at Base Camp, a Nepali restaurant, rounded out the day, and I drove down on Tuesday in the rain.

We are getting ready for a short hop to Los Gatos for the weekend. Today I was in NYC for a lunch with college friends on another rainy day.


Burning bush put on a fiery show, and Judy captured the conflagration with her cell phone.

The plant purists point out that the burning bush are not native and should be pulled out or cut down and the stumps sprayed with Roundup [glyphosate] to eliminate them from our landscape.

I like the red too much to do that. The birds feast on the seeds as evidenced by all the volunteers we have in our yard.

And by the way, that small shrub in the center of the picture is a dawn redwood that will dwarf the ash tree next to it, if it grows to maturity, another non-native.