No Smoking Area.

6-11-23 SHORT HILLS: We’re back in a No Smoking zone. The Air Quality Index is back below 100 instead of near 1000. I can see and smell the difference. It continues to be too dry, but rain is predicted for tomorrow. No rain is why all those fires are still burning in Québec. I suspect we will not be going to Québec City this summer, unless it rains a ton.

I have continued to do chores. I pulled out some tree trunk guards and changed some others and I continued to do pruning. I’m catching up with all the losses from last years drought. The predicted El Niño has not formed as yet. If it does, it might change the weather pattern of the last few years.

New blooms: linden tree, tulip tree.

Smoke free yard--compare to the pix from the last post.

Tulip tree flowers and leaves. The tulip-shaped flowers are yellow and orange.  Next to the flower in the center is a brown bud of an opening flower. The leaves are oddly shaped, one is seen pretty well above the centrally placed flower and bud.  

Linden tree flowers and leaves. The leaves are assymetrical and dark green, contrasting with the light green bract that frames the flowers. Both trees have actually been blooming for a while.