Monday

It's Garbage Day!

45.7 degrees - no precipitation.

From WKTV: "Monday's forecast looks gorgeous with highs in the mid 70s with only a few clouds. The leading edge of a warm front sneaks in here on Tuesday, and it may be enough to spark off an afternoon shower or storm. The warm front will stall, and an area of low pressure will ride along with it, meaning a wet start to Wednesday with numerous showers and thunderstorms."

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A great deal of haying was done last week .......


......... but it was a gray, drippy weekend - just as was forecast by the clouds in this photograph that Library Director Jeff Reynolds sent to me on Friday.

Fortunately, there was no end to "bright spots"
in and around the village:


The DPW crew had been out at the crack of dawn, on Friday, hanging planters on telephone poles along Main Street and on Sanger Avenue next to the Park.

Even before 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, a line had formed at the Firemen's Pavilion where Barb Atkyns (above) and Becky Maggio of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the American Legion Post 92 in Sangerfield filled orders at a Fund Raiser Picnic sponsored by Veterans, Family & Friends of Cpl. John P. Sigsbee.

The funds that are raised by this organization will be divided, later this year: first, a contribution will be made to the "Memorial Wall" at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Remaining monies will be divided between the "Memorial Bandstand Fund" to support the construction of a Victorian-style bandstand (NOT a "shell!") in the Park, and the "Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association" for a permanent Speakers' Platform next to the Civil War Monument (on the other side of Madison Street) in Monument Park.

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While that Picnic was in progress, there was another noteworthy gathering: several ladies from the Class of 1956 got together for lunch at Michael's! I wasn't there, of course, but got a complete report from "Dee" Godfrey McManus Wines who came 'way down to Whiskey Hollow to say "Hello!" She said that several group photographs were taken: I hope that someone will send at least one to me to post here!

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My daughter and grandson were here on Sunday afternoon and, therefore, I don't have a first-person report on the Jazz Concert that took place at the Library. Perhaps information and photos of THAT event will also be forthcoming?

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Late in the afternoon I took a ride around the village and a bit of the countryside:

Just as dazzling as the flowering crabapple trees a month or so ago, now the several varieties of Rhododendron, both wild and cultivated, are at their best.

Above: "Pinxter" - Rhododendron nudiflora - at the Kaufmanns' on Route 12 just south of CVS.

At the Woodhouse and Murphy residences, across from each other on Madison Street.

These two are on Putnam Street.

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South of the village, on Loomis Road, there's a huge pink "pond" of "Gilleyflower!"

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Here's a photograph that Dan Ford sent to me on Friday. It was taken by his daughter, Kristen, who had spotted this turkey trying to cross Shanley Road up near Paris. Although not an Eagle, Dan thought it was the largest bird he'd seen this year.

Can you find it?

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Have a Good Day, everyone!