This past weekend my wife and I went down to the Philadelphia area to go to the Bryn Mawr College family weekend to support Libby (our daughter). There is such a variety of oaks there- I noticed willow and laurel oaks and beautiful specimens of mossycup oak, I noticed the new dwarf varieties of Cornus doing very well there- I think better than they do in this area probably because it is warmer there. I also noticed lots of knockout roses growing very well and getting bigger than I have seen them around here. They seemed to get about 5 or 6 feet high and wide there whereas around here, they are often a 3 to 4 foot bush.
Now that I am back it seems colder and a lot like November which is my least favorite month.
On our way to Penna., we stopped in Northampton to see Kady (our other daughter) and briefly visited the Smith College conservatory. I drew a Stanhopea oculata (orchid), saw a show of beautiful prints made from actual leaves(I had met and talked to the artist a couple weeks ago), and peaked at the preparations for the Chrysanthemum show (huge Chrysanthemums are not my favorite flower but they are amazing)
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