When I lived in the city, I had some sad looking trees on my street that often ended up covered with trash on the weekends (making them look that much more sad). One day a public utility truck backed up into one across the street from my apartment and left it there, broken and dying. […]
Archive for March, 2011
Really ticked off about the trees
Posted in Guest blogger, Interesting, Rants & Raves on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Super moon and more harbingers of spring
Posted in Interesting, Rants & Raves on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The herring are in, the herring are in! There’s activity at the Cape Cod canal herring run as well as in Brewster. Despite the snow and sleet they have determined it is time to venture into fresh water. Maybe they were moved by the “Super moon” of March 19. That day (or night) the moon […]
The big dig
Posted in Fauna, Rants & Raves, Tips on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
185 bulbs, and counting… That is the latest tally of squirrel victims. All that is left in evidence is a crater and a petal or some other overlooked morsel. Even though the bulbs, mostly crocus, were on sale, there was the multi-week effort of planting. Now all that is gone, Las Vegas buffet style… Mind […]
Killer on the loose
Posted in Fauna, Guest blogger, Interesting on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, I was taking my pet to the vet and noticed a rather odd looking bug crawl out of the pet carrying case. Before I could ascertain what it was it had slipped under the car seat. My impression was that it sort of looked like a tick, if only because it […]
Here we go!
Posted in Flora, Interesting on March 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Things are stirring in the natural world. Every day we add two or three more minutes of light. The birds are gettting more than a little excited, and plants are pushing their way up through the soil to the sun. Other yards are way ahead of mine – purple and yellow crocuses are flowering on […]
Thank You, John Hay
Posted in Guest blogger, Rants & Raves on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I opened the Cape Cod Times news and saw that John Hay had passed. Hay is quoted on the home page, and every page of this blog: In particular “Get down in nature, down in the water and the dirt” resonates. Now that he has passed on, that quote for me has even more impact […]
Getting Mushy Over Mushrooms
Posted in Guest blogger, Interesting on March 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I first became fascinated with mushrooms while reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma where author Michael Pollan describes them as a mysterious third kingdom species theorized to get their energy from the moon instead of the sun. This is one of those strange scientific stories that always makes me want to learn more. In Colin Tudge’s The Tree: A Natural History […]
More Bobcat Banter
Posted in Fauna, Guest blogger, Interesting on March 2, 2011 | 7 Comments »
A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing Jonathan Way speak at the Brewster Natural History Museum. During his lecture about coyotes, or coywolves, some of the attendees brought up the return of wild animals to Cape Cod such as bears and fishers. Recalling this story to a friend, I tried in vain to remember […]