Blue Horizon?
Yesterday while surrendering to the cobalt beauty of Nantucket Sound as I hugged the inlet with a friend in a small sailboat, I could not help think about the prospect of the wind towers and how they...
View ArticleTo Spray Or Not To Spray?
As many of you have probably heard, N Star announced, in early August, that they were planning to commence spraying the power lines with herbicides after a four year halt to their program due to...
View ArticleBring On The Tides
It was, all in all, a humid and warm summer on Cape Cod, great for tourism and beach lovers but bad for algae bloom in many of our bays. In the summer on the Cape, the nitrate levels in ponds and...
View ArticleEnvironmental Creatures
Contradictions seem predominant in our ocean these days with the appreciable influx of bass in areas of Nantucket Sound and, on a less favorable note, the massive die off of horseshoe crabs strewn...
View ArticleLoonatic
It came as a surprise and concern when someone walking on the beach came running up to me and told me that there was a "sick bird" sitting on the sand. Nearing the spot cited, I instantly spotted the...
View ArticlePumpkins and Jellyfish
Accompanying a friend and her two children to a local farm to select pumpkins we somehow ended walking on the beach. Stiff wind blowed straight at us as we scaled the sandy embankment to the shoreline...
View ArticleTo Go With The Flow
Simplistic as it might be to suggest we should just "go with the flow", spending enough time by the sea teaches you the wisdom behind what is often viewed as a mere cliche.read more
View ArticleJust Passing Thru
I wasn't prepared for the sight of finding a solitary wild turkey atop the oak tree bordering my cottage in the middle of the day. Accustomed as I had been to seeing two turkeys on the property on a...
View ArticleDarker
Gone are the mornings of birds songs and the blaze of rising sun, replaced by a thick swath of blackness at dawn and talk of too many acorns on the ground. The swing of the seasons is nothing new to...
View ArticleHow About Some Herbicides With Your Turkey?
Although you might be weary of hearing about it at this point, I cannot not talk about it so if it intrudes on your pie baking or other Thanksgiving preparations, for that I regret. Despite all the...
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