When Does Warm Happen?

4-8-17 SHORT HILLS: We had another snow with barely a dusting here, but VT got several inches. Today the last remnant of the snowplow piles in the driveway melted, leaving behind more debris from the downed pine tree. We have had a lot of rain, but today was sunny, if windy and cold.

Today we drove to Philly to have brunch with friends Stephen, Christine and Bob. Last night we had dinner with Bill and Lynn in Summit. Back on Thursday we had dinner in NYC with Jon and Sara before we heard the NY Phil.

They premiered a new composition called Metacosmos by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, which got a bunch of great reviews. She has been the Philharmonic’s Kravis Emerging Composer since 2015. Then pianist Benjamin Grosvenor did Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The orchestra played Beethoven’s Third Symphony, Eroica, after intermission. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted.

I have continued to drag broken branches and smashed bamboo out to the street. We are still waiting for the tree pruners to take the broken, hanging branches out of the trees.

New blooms: Siberian squill.


Bald eagle on a strafing run. This great image is from Naples, FL, taken by Gail Harty.

Another crocus shivering in a cold wind.

Siberian squill is not native to Siberia, as it turns out.

David Geffen Hall, née Avery Fisher Hall, Philharmonic Hall before that still looks the same, before the concert.