Preordering miniature roses four months in advance as a little treat to future me.

Enjoy your long weekend in the New Jersey Pinelands, wherever the trail takes you 🥾 ... here are new views from Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in the Pinelands ... 🌎 🌳 #weekend #hiking #pinelands #forests

This heat is lousy stuff. Guess all I can do is get up at six in the morning tomorrow to water the plants.

Spiderwort!!! One of my favorites!!!

Book club field trip. Bit grim. Are there any plans to turn this neglected lot back into anything?

Beautiful day for gardening.

OK but how many have you read of this Best Novels list compiled in 1898? (27 in my case) www.openculture.com/2013/11/the-...

LIRR service is suspended until further notice because of a strike. Avoid nonessential travel and work from home if possible. We'll hcw limited shuttle bus service on weekdays for essential workers and those who cannot telecommute. Find out more about travel during the strike: mta.info/lirrstrike

Shoutout to whoever decided to snip a coral honeysuckle off the fence by the little garden that was making your parking lot look a bit less bleak. You really showed those hummingbirds.

Folks, it's a big day for donations. And matching minutes are at 2:01PM or 5:51PM! Consider chipping in and helping these lovely people.

📱 The new NJ TRANSIT app officially launched yesterday with an updated user interface. Thank you to all the customers who participated in the beta phase & shared valuable feedback with me and the IT team. An app is never a finished product, so continue to send comments: njtransit.com/advocate

Red-osier dogwood delivers the goods.

can't believe it, but... it's out. Finally. Now the minor task of promotion / rehearsals / trying to play live / the next album??

Neighbor down the hall had overripe bananas she didn't know what to do with, so I guess I'm making banana bread today.

The Odyssey but it's just trying to get from Amherst to Boston without a car

It's fundraising season in Hudson County, so I'm going to make a thread for a cause dear to my heart. The Native Plant Society of New Jersey's chapter here is raising money for several parks and gardens to plant native. www.hudsongives.org/organization...

📣 Join the @jerseycitynj.bsky.social Vision Zero Community Walking Tours, starting TODAY! 📣 When you arrive, look out for the Vision Zero Jersey City yellow vests if you have trouble locating the walking group!

Good evening. Have some columbines.

It's fundraising season in Hudson County, so I'm going to make a thread for a cause dear to my heart. The Native Plant Society of New Jersey's chapter here is raising money for several parks and gardens to plant native. www.hudsongives.org/organization...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Helen DeWitt won and then lost a big prize because she's bad at the computer. Everyone got mad about it. What does that mean--about the era, about literary culture, about the way writers are now asked to market themselves? Let's go soundcloud.com/printrunpodc...

Tappan Zee.

The Tappan Zee walkway's looking rough. Is this all damage from snow and ice?

Canonically, Don Quixote was bested in combat by a single cat. Tamarind may not be able to read, but he seems to understand this on a spiritual level.

Those red kiwis are a serious disappointment if you expect kiwis to have a little bit of tartness and brightness to them. I ended up slicing them with banana and tossing them in brown sugar and lime juice. Big improvement.

Made a trip out to Middletown to visit Deep Cut Gardens, once the estate of Vito Genovese.

We’ve dropped the paywall on last week’s deep dive from @theaircurrent.com as Spirit Airlines approached the end. Even with the demise of the carrier there’s insight here to understand what’s next. theaircurrent.com/airlines/spi... (via @willguisbond.com @juliejohnsson.bsky.social and yours truly)

I have identified the enemy and it is Bromus grasses.

Spirit has started an orderly wind-down of operations, the troubled airline said in a statement.. All flights have been canceled and passengers have been advised not to go to the airport.

People Express Airlines ran so Spirit could walk.

Fish fraud is no good, but I'd rather be lied to with catfish than tilapia.

My favorite sentence in this article is “catfish, which is safe to eat,”

NATIVE STUNNER: Happy May! Native pink lady’s slipper #orchids are blooming in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. Also known as the moccasin flower (Cypripedium acaule), they are one of almost 30 native, wild orchid species that grow in the Pinelands. 🌸 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #orchids #flowers

Spring is here, so get on that garlic scape train if you aren't already in the know. Make a pesto. Throw them on the grill. Pickle them. The world is your oyster.

note the awesome pink pollen pants

The Bradford pear tree bans are good. Folks are free to complain on God's green Earth, but I don't get going to bat for an invasive tree that smells like...that.

I bet photosynthesizing feels great

Breaking News: New York area airports will install trackers on rescue vehicles after a fire truck without a tracker was part of a deadly collision last month.

Air to Ground Message: PLS ADVISE CABIN SVCS 1ST CLASS LAV WILL REQUIRE SEVERE ATTN. IT WASNT ME. Area: Jersey Shore, NJ, USA Type: Boeing 757-200 A: #a6ffd1f4ecc F: #fe6efda015b

Zizia.

Northwest Resiliency Park in Hoboken. Beautiful plant selection.

Taken at Leonard Gordon Park in the Heights.

Gift link to this absolutely devastating story

All I ask of this growing season is that I get to see a few swallowtails on what I've planted. I mean, there are other things, but that feels like an easy bar to clear.

(Belated) Happy Earth Day to this Eastern Redbud tree, specifically 💖 Astoria NY, April 2026

Trains from Boston <-> NYC are on hold. Part of an on-ramp to I-95 in Cranston had structural issues, and fell on the tracks. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/24/m...

SPICE TO SEE YOU: Here are new photos of a stunning spicebush #butterfly that was puddling, or deriving nutrients by sipping from the damp soil, at our headquarters in the Pinelands Area of Pemberton Township, NJ. 🦋 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #butterflies #insects