Now It's July.

4-29-24 SHORT HILLS: it was in upper eighties yesterday and today, but gets cooler tomorrow. I put the screens in the doors and put the glass away. We finally has some rain last night. It has been pretty dry, and the sprinklers are running. 

I got two seedling trees from Ronnie, the town was giving them out, and he got them for us. I planted a red oak and a hickory, each one three inches tall. It took only a minute or two for each one, but my streak of planting a tree every year is intact. 

We had dinner with Lynn and Bill for Bill’s BD, and brunch with cousins Kenny and David and their ladies at Kenny and Monica’s apartment near Lincoln Center.

New blooms: azalea, wood hyacinth, ajuga, Siebold viburnum, wild strawberry, wild mustard, yellow lamium, Carolina allspice. 

Azalea are just getting started, the most vivid color so far this spring.

Carolina allspice, an interesting flower in an interesting color.

Dogwood in white.

Tree planter with shovel and cane.

Blue, not the most well-trained, but will not be shot under any circumstances.

More dogwood.