Yellow Journalism.

4-5-19 SHORT HILLS: It was supposed to rain four times in the past week, but each predicted episode was a bust with little or nothing in the rain gauge. Today we have had a fairly steady, gentle rain, maybe we'll get a measurable amount. It looks like there’s snow north of here. The temps here have been seasonal, almost warm in the afternoon. Several days were quite windy.

I have done flagstone path repairs, fence repairs, more pruning and cleaning up deadfall. I started the sprinkler system because things have been dry, even this early in the season. Some sprinkler heads needed cleaning or re-aligning.

We had dinner with Alan and Judy, another Judy, last weekend at Gramercy Tavern, excellent as always. Jonathan was visiting here on business this week. We ate out one night at Central and Main in Madison, mediocre meal. I had lunch with Bill last Saturday. We had to wait for a table in Chatham at a place that once was the Mainmast, our high school hangout.

New blooms: pachysandra, spicebush, forsythia.


Forsythia are just getting started, but there's enough yellow to publish.

Crocus in pachysandra.

More yellow, spice bush.

Pachysandra flowers.