Waterville Blog 2015: Monday morning update

It's 64 degrees and mostly clear at 6:30 a.m.

The TWCNY Weather Forecast:

"Warm & Humid Monday.
We'll see sun and clouds on Monday with a shower or storm. Additionally, it will be a warm and humid start to the week as temperatures climb into the low and mid 80s Monday afternoon.

An area of low pressure is expected to develop and move in over the top of us Monday night, resulting in periods of rain (heavy at times) and thunder. Tuesday will feature a mostly cloudy sky, scattered showers/storms and slightly cooler temperatures with highs in the middle and upper 70s.

Highs will drop into the low 70s on Wednesday with a few more showers before a drier air mass is able to take hold Thursday. The forecast calls for temperatures to warm back up into the upper 70s/low 80s toward the end of the week."

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This is the week and, already, tents are up, crowds are gathering and traffic is slowing!

Anything that you want to know, click HERE!

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Sunday afternoon ride.

Checking out the Hop Crop. These, on the Sangerfield Town Hall, should be perfect in a week or two .....

...... and the cones on the bines growing on the pergola in the Library Garden are also filling out.

I took a walk through the Garden ....

........ and stopped to read all of the signs on the post between the Children's Garden and the Barton-Brown Observatory.

Painted by several of the community's artists, each sign reflects both astronomical and literary importance:
BRILLIANT!

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Blooming in the countryside, two more of the plants that we call "wildflowers" that have, in earlier times, played important parts in the lives of settlers from Great Britain and Europe.

Tansy

"Tansy was a popular strewing herb in times past because it's clean, camphoraceous scent repelled flies and other pests. It is still customary to plant tansy outside the kitchen door, and around the garden for the same reasons.
Tansy was widely naturalized in the American colonies by 1785 and practically every farmyard had a clump of this aromatic medicinal herb. Tansy tea was made from fresh or dried leaves and given for cramps, colic, gout and even plague. Tansy leaves were also used as a clear yellow dye for woolens."

Boneset

"Boneset, which looks like white 'Joe-Pye Weed,' is also called 'agueweed', 'feverwort' or 'sweating-plant'. It was introduced to American colonists by Indians who used the plant for breaking fevers by means of heavy sweating.

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Cardinal Flowers are still
Dazzling!

The new green trim on the HydroGro storefront on West Main Street is also quite dazzling, 'though not in the same sense, and is being greeted by some Villagers more with dismay than delight.

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Speaking of paint ......