Question of the Week

Why can't the Association get the maintenance bills to homeowners in a timely manner?

UPDATE: The maintenance bills were received today. Fees are due September 1—that's in two days and tomorrow is Sunday. This is another new low in service from our Association.

Downton Abbey Season 6 Trailer

For those lucky fans in the UK, Downton Abbey will return for its final season on Sunday, September 20. Across the pond we'll have to wait until Sunday, January 3, 2016, for the season premiere on Masterpiece | PBS.

Downton Abbey will pick up in 1925, six months after the season 5 finale. Here's the ITV trailer for the 6th and final season.

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Hummingbird Clearwing moth

Silver-spotted Skipper

Great Spangled Fritillary

This Great Spangled Fritillary showed up on our deck today sadly looking the worse for wear.

Ouch!

Forever

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

I had not known before
   Forever was so long a word.
The slow stroke of the clock of time
   I had not heard.

'Tis hard to learn so late;
   It seems no sad heart really learns,
But hopes and trusts and doubts and fears,
   And bleeds and burns.

The night is not all dark,
   Nor is the day all it seems,
But each may bring me this relief—
   My dreams and dreams.

I had not known before
   That Never was so sad a word,
So wrap me in forgetfulness—
   I have not heard.

                                                                  
                                                        Photo: takomabibelot

Sky Over Princeton Landing — 8:03 pm

15th Annual Watershed Butterfly Festival

The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association will hold its 15th annual Butterfly Festival on Saturday, August 8, from 10 am to 4 pm at the 930-acre Watershed Reserve. The festival is a popular family event that attracts around 3,000 visitors every summer. Visit the new Watershed Center and Kate Gorrie Butterfly House. Check out the butterfly and insect exhibits, science happenings in the lab and interactive children's activities. Enjoy live entertainment, food from local vendors, crafts from artisans and more. Participate in the famous Butterfly and Bug Parade (bring your costume). Tethered balloon rides will be available on site for a spectacular view of the Watershed Reserve for $10 per person; children under 3 ride free accompanied by an adult.

Admission is $10 per person or $25 per carload. Parking is provided across from the Watershed Association courtesy of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Shuttles will be provided from the parking area to the festival. No pets or alcoholic beverages allowed. Click here for more information.

The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association is located at 31 Titus Mill Road in Pennington. Click here for directions.

Artwork: Erin McNulty

Tree Identification Walk at Mapleton Preserve

Join Karen Linder, president of Friends of Princeton Nursery Lands, for a tree identification walk at the Mapleton Preserve on Saturday, August 8, 2015, at 2 pm. Learn some of the basics of tree identification by examining native and ornamental trees. Become familiar with their characteristics through discussion and the use of tree guides and an identification key.

Mapleton Preserve/D&R Canal State Park Headquarters is located at 145 Mapleton Road in Kingston. The event is free and open to the public; it will be held rain or shine. Call 609-683-0483 for more information.

Photo of Catalpa tree at Mapleton Preserve by Tari Pantaleo

Swiss National Day

Photo: Pascal Gertschen, Zermatt Tourismus 2015