Be Careful What You Wish For.

5-9-25 SHORT HILLS: Rain has fallen for the last week of so, 0.9 inches, and last night another 0.5 inches with more on the way. Our wishes for rain have been granted and then some. I guess now I should wish for my hair to re-grow, or to be forty again.

I have been doing more trimming and pruning and very slowly catching up with the work to be done. Socially we had dinner with Bette and Lonnie at Lorena’s and then bunch with Sarah and Jon at Bar Boulud in Lincoln Square. We stopped by what used to be Avery Fisher Hall and is now David Geffen Hall. The lobby has been totally re-done, but I managed to find the Mens Room, which is now unisex.

Two of the three treated ash trees now look pretty good, the third has some foliage.

The birds have been voracious. I have to fill the feeders almost daily. The catbirds are back with their complex and varied songs. 

New blooms: deutzia, honey suckle bush, chestnut, bridal wreath spirea, sweet woodruff, choke cherry, lilac. 

Azalea colors are the most vivid.

Lincoln Center fountain has some new tricks...

Including some very tall jets.

Chestnut blossoms last a long time. These were very droopy before the rain but are now upright.

Ajuga growing on a brick step.

Robin posing on a branch. I think this is a male--dark head and back.