Heat Wave.

6-13-17 SHORT HILLS: We’re back from Los Gatos and cowering inside under the AC while the yard swelters in 90° heat. It’s been hot for several days, apparently after three days it’s officially a heat wave. It’s supposed to be cooler tomorrow. Actually a couple of days ago I did spend a few hours outside pruning and trimming the walkways and weeding some of the more flagrant infestations.

Yesterday was the end-of-the-year party at Lincoln Elementary School for the dogs and reading lessons. It was incredible hot, especially for the dogs, so it was a bit curtailed. I was there to take pix.

That butterfly from California is a Western Tiger Swallowtail.

We have a bunch of stuff about to bloom: southern magnolia, catalpa, hydrangea, daylily, winterberry holly, st johns wort, butterfly bush.

New blooms: native rhododendron, Asian hollies, red clover, white clover.


Anna's Hummingbird in Los Gatos. The females of the four or five species of hummers in Northern California are very hard to tell apart. The males are distinctive.

Another rose with buds, can't resist.

Up close, the red clover is an interesting flower.

I went to Lincoln Elementary School with Judy to take pix of the last party with the dogs. It was very hot.

Native rhododendron is the last rhodo to bloom.