The big concert in California was nice with lots of kids doing their thing. There were three string groups varying in level of achievement and age. The difference was quite apparent as they played. A group of flautists opened the concert. We came back to EWR the next morning.
It rained each day that we were there. There were no downpours, but it all helps. I don’t know how the reservoir levels are doing, but everything along the highways and in town was green as it was around Jon and Siobhan’s house. We even had a rainbow the afternoon before the concert. You can’t have a rainbow without rain.
Back in NJ I have been doing pruning of shrubs and small trees. I have a big pile of cuttings to go to the dump. It has been cool here, and that slows the march of the flowers. Grackles and red-wing blackbirds have joined the winter stalwarts at the feeders.
New blooms: spice bush, saucer magnolia, pulmonaria.
Rainbow over San José from the house.
Eoin's group waiting to start.
Saucer Magnolia, early show-off has opened.
Spice bush in this yard grows with and around the forsythia. Both bloom in yellow and at the same time. The flowers and leaves have a 'spicy' aroma.
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