New Grill, New Blooms.

4-15-24 SHORT HILLS: The Weber Grill has been used a few times and has not caught fire, so we are reassured that steaks and chops lie in the future. 

Yesterday we had brunch in the city with Roger and Helaine, Paul was not available, but we spoke this morning. The day before we were in the city and saw Gardner, Anna and Emmett, now almost six months old. 

If yesterday was May, today is June, before these last two, it was March. There has been plenty of rain, and everything is opening and greening on schedule. I spent a little time outside today taking dead fall off shrubs.

The birds have paired up, are in song all day, and are gobbling up everything I put out. Vermont later this week.  

New blooms: apple, barberry, blueberry, Chinese snowball viburnum, dogwood. 

The daffodils keep coming out.

Me and Emmett, each of us curious about the other.

Red bird in the southern magnolia.

Valerie and her friend Nancy were at the Vermont house for the eclipse. Nancy, who is an excellent photographer, took this sunrise. The ice is gone and the snow is going.

Another one of Nancy's the upper pond. [Thanks Nancy and Val.]