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Tracking a ghost
March 05, 2019 - One of the drawbacks of this mostly snowless winter is that I haven't had a chance to hone my tracking skills, which, I...
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Meltdown
February 04, 2019 - The February Thaw—more or less an extension of the January one—continues to increase in strength, with temperatures in t...
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Frozen, leaf edition
November 26, 2018 - The cold remains solidly in place, and speaking of solids, the millpond is wearing a coat of thin ice across its entire...
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Fantastical
November 24, 2018 - While there's a suggestion that a warming spell might be in the offing soon, it hasn't arrived yet and my morning trek a...
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Icy arrival
November 12, 2018 - The decision I made yesterday to pick that mini-rose in advance of the predicted cold snap turned out to be a great one.
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The first freeze
October 19, 2018 - Sooner or later, I knew I would wake up to genuine silver, and when the wind died last night and there was was no audibl...
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Crown jewels
February 09, 2018 - There was a little bit more cold in the air last night, and by morning, there had been a little bit of refreezing. The N...
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Almost open water
January 31, 2018 - It's really too early to be thinking about an early spring, but after yesterday's snow disappeared quickly, I had a chan...
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Liquid water
January 28, 2018 - I never get tired of taking this shot. The weather warms, the stream I long ago named for my son Noah—he used it as a pl...
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Natural sculpture
January 14, 2018 - Winter isn't over... yet. In fact, winter isn't over, despite what the temperature said recently—pushing 60, with warm,...
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Concentrated
March 07, 2017 - There's been the slightest break in the cold, but the shallower stretches of the local farm pond—the one I now hike to o...
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Icebox, redux
March 06, 2017 - With the return of cold so fierce that yesterday, I just about wound up with frostbite in my thumb—and I was wearing fai...
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Cold socks
February 17, 2017 - There's the barest hint of warmth in the still chilly February air: just enough to turn the hard snow sufficiently soft...
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Utterly grim
January 24, 2017 - Besides even the slightest hint of meteorological optimism, the view from the millpond bridge lacks something else: ice.
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Frozen enigma
December 30, 2016 - One of the first things I'm going to have to do as soon as the year turns over is to get my eyes checked. Case in point:...
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Entombed moss
April 06, 2016 - The morning started off ridiculously cold—19 at the low ebb, and if my record-keeping was better, it would probably have...
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Still frozen hollers
January 29, 2016 - The thaw is on, and everything frozen is melting rapidly. But in the more shadowy hollows—er, to use my favorite bluegra...
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Ice arrival
November 24, 2015 - The mercury in the maximum-minimum Taylor thermometer touched 19 degrees F. at daybreak, and when I went out for a morni...
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Hot frog on ice
April 08, 2015 - It was raining off and on, but that, of course, didn't bother the frogs... or the naturalist, so, as soon as I had all t...
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A dash of color
March 29, 2015 - Who could'a thunk it? asked singer-songwriter Greg Brown. He wasn't, of course, talking about winter, but that immortal...
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Goosanders at last
March 28, 2015 - With the ice cover of the millpond shrinking daily and more open water available, I've been looking for these birds to a...
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Neither fire nor ice
March 27, 2015 - When Robert Frost pondered, akin to T.S. Eliot, the way the world might end, the flinty sage of Derry, New Hampshire, su...
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Almost floatable
March 25, 2015 - The weather continues to trend towards warming, and the snow is steadily losing its hold on the landscape. The major hol...
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Aquatic pancakes
March 19, 2015 - There's yet more cold in the offing and, if at least one of the forecast models is correct, we're in for a continuation...
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Otter... or fisher?
March 15, 2015 - At 3:08:53 pm, I spotted a weasel-like critter on the ice of the millpond. I didn't see how it got there, but as I watch...
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Ice garden
February 28, 2015 - I managed to get out alone today for a brief jaunt, and I came home with a harvest of interesting images: a Winter Wren...
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Study in ice
January 17, 2015 - Ice has been a recurrent theme in the recent week's walks... and posts. This abstraction, however, was pretty much unexp...
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No trespassing—with teeth
January 16, 2015 - The day's a little warmer, with the barest hint of a thaw in the chilly air, but I'm keeping my parka within close range...
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Ephemeral Cape Cod in the ice
January 12, 2015 - There was rain in the immediate forecast, so I headed out armed only with my waterproof Fuji which, although I haven't h...
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A skin of snow
January 07, 2015 - Any lingering warmth departed last night, and as the mercury dropped, there was persistent but light snow in the air, th...
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Genuine ice
November 16, 2014 - It was eight degrees below freezing yesterday morning on the maximum-minimum thermometer, and today's reading was even l...
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