Wednesday

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FARMER'S MARKET in the PARK

1:00 - 6:00

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It's Recyclables Day

50 degrees and rainy.

• Today: Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely. Quite chilly. High near 60.
• Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Low in the upper 40s.
• Thursday: Mostly cloudy with occasional rain showers. High: 65, Low: 50

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It was, to many of us, a dark and chilly day, yesterday - the temperature never got above 65! - but the lady with the green thumb on Babbot Avenue S. was ecstatic: "It's better for the flowers!" she said, and she knows!

Mr. Stanbro had the street sweeper out vacuuming drains and I noticed that
other members of the DPW had mown the Park in readiness for today's Farmer's Market.

The entire village really looks very spiffy, and if one travels side streets and takes time to look, there are "treasures" to be seen, everywhere.

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Now blooming:

Japanese Lilacs - almost too sweet.

There aren't as many of these in Waterville as there are in Clinton, and in Chittenango, where the results of their recent "Highway Reconstruction Project" are very evident, Japanese Lilacs are the new "street trees."


Bramble rose.

(Is it true that these very prickly plants were given out by the government to be used by farmers in place of barbed wire during the Second World War?)



Catalpa Trees

This one is on Route 315 a bit south of California Road.



There's an "ocean" of grain next to Dugway Road, near Clinton.

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I have a History Mystery that someone may be able to help with: a blog-reader has asked for the early 20th century location of the Benedict (or Munger) Farm. A 1934 article in The Waterville Times reads, "The (Benedict) homestead was located where the house of Mrs. R. J. Roberts now stands and extended east to the farm where William Lally resides."

(This was somewhere along Upper White Street - but "where?")

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FOR THE RECORD



Two years ago!


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Hummingbird Status: Still Sitting!

Jody Hildreth thinks that, considering the weather, it's just as well that the "chicks" haven't hatched. Once that happens, the mother must keep them warm AND search for food for them: a critical division of her time. (No: "dad" does not participate!)

Celtics 131 - Lakers 92.

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Have a great day!