end of May

As always, Spring arrives in Chichester about three weeks after it arrives downstate. This rhododendron is in full bloom on the morning of May 29.

There appears to be a large outbreak of poison ivy this year. In our yard there is poison ivy camouflaged by ferns and other plants. But it is also out in the open:

these are leaves of a poison ivy vine clinging to a tree along Stoney Clove Lane.