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At the zoo
October 05, 2019 - I'd mentioned that I'm having extreme difficulties keeping up the daily part of this literary journey, but if I avoid th...
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Thanks to young eyes
May 16, 2019 - This entry in the journal could have been about "the one that got away," and, in all honesty, it was beginning to look l...
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Uneasy touch
March 13, 2019 - It wasn't the nicest of days, so, with Stasia on vacation, we opted to visit the Wheeler Library in town for a program p...
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Two at once
March 02, 2019 - Finally, finally, finally... snow deep enough to actually do something wintry on! The overnight storm would have been, i...
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Night dance
February 21, 2019 - Professional and personal busy-ness—business—kept me confined to indoor quarters all day, but I got out in the evening a...
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Frozen
February 11, 2019 - During one of the earlier stretches of time when my granddaughter Stasia lived with us, she fell in love, as did most yo...
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Flower child
February 01, 2019 - At our local school, every day this week has had a theme and the kids dressed accordingly. There's been a rock star day,...
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Leaf leaping
November 27, 2018 - When I started this more-or-less daily blogging endeavor more than five years ago, my self-imposed mandate was to chroni...
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Sous-chef
November 21, 2018 - This was a busy, busy day and, before the Thanksgiving festivities, there was no time to do much trekking, besides the i...
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Cannonball!
September 01, 2018 - The formal part of summer, which is to say, the vacation season between the Fourth of July and Labor Day, is fast windin...
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Unbalancing act
August 28, 2018 - Our respite from the fierce heat and humidity was short-lived, and today, there was an advisory that basically said, Sta...
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Sociable climber
August 07, 2018 - It was a long day on the road, since we had to temporarily bring Stasia back towards home—we've been meeting halfway out...
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The poke tree
August 05, 2018 - The American Pokeweed, a.k.a. Phytolacca americana, is a native problem and opportunity. As is clear from this photo of...
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A shrill whistle
July 31, 2018 - The Broad-winged Hawk was my "gateway drug" into the world of raptors. I was introduced to these medium-sized hawks, whi...
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In the swim
July 27, 2018 - Mea culpa... I should probably stop featuring my granddaughter in these posts and get back to writing about natural hist...
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Old berry friends
July 26, 2018 - I had hoped to take Stasia blueberry-picking at one of several potential terrific places, but the heat, humidity, and bu...
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Up and away!
July 25, 2018 - This didn't turn out to be a trekking day, but we still managed to spend a lot of time outdoors, even if it was only in...
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Toad catcher
July 20, 2018 - When Stasia decided that she wanted to try photography this past spring, she took to it almost instantly and I thought w...
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Fun and games
July 19, 2018 - I know what you're thinking: there's something wrong with the photographer's color vision, and he knows that he's red-gr...
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Back to the lake
June 30, 2018 - As a sign of just how chilly the spring and early summer have been, I have not been to the lake until this afternoon. Af...
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Rock frame
June 28, 2018 - There were rumors of heavy rain today—not surprisingly, very little actually arrived—so we scheduled a visit to New Have...
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Raven quotes
June 27, 2018 - Stasia was amenable to a hike today. Actually—and this has been something of a surprise from her recent, I-no-longer-wan...
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Amazing goats
June 23, 2018 - My now eight-year-old granddaughter Stasia is back at the ranch for the early part of summer and, after a bike trip—she'...
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Image-making inauguration
April 25, 2018 - When Stasia was owlet-watching and fine-tuning her spotting scope skills a couple of days ago, she also watched me takin...
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Owlscoping 101
April 23, 2018 - My granddaughter Stasia is with us this week, and, happily enough, the sun was out, the day was close to warm—or, at lea...
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Riley reckoning
March 05, 2018 - With my granddaughter Stasia safely back home and in school—and the wind diminished enough so that I no longer need a ha...
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Leavetaking... again
March 04, 2018 - OK, I know I shouldn't be doing this... absolutely shouldn't be... This is, after all, a blog about local natural histor...
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Not braving the storm
March 02, 2018 - There was no doubt whatsoever that this was going to be an indoor day. Yes, I know that I've staked a claim about taking...
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Raking it in at last
February 28, 2018 - Normally, by the time the snow flies, I've raked all the leaves off our little patch of lawn and assembled them into lar...
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Happy 2018
January 01, 2018 - It was so cold this morning—I had two below for the minimum—that a number of places actually cancelled their "polar plun...
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Au revoir, 2017
December 31, 2017 - It's been quite a year, but as we ring out 2017 and get ready to celebrate the arrival of the 2018 model, my granddaught...
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On the road
December 25, 2017 - The night before Christmas, the available males—yours truly, my brother Rob, and my son Caleb—were busy with one of thos...
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Early end
August 24, 2017 - Today was a joyous and melancholy day—the very definition of bittersweet. After doing the usual things with my granddaug...
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Very unexpected visitor
August 10, 2017 - We used to see Box Turtles in the back yard every year. We never knew where they came from, and we never discovered wher...
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Flower child
August 08, 2017 - It's been a fine midsummer for Sweet William blossoms in the flower garden and the nearby gone-wild edges of the fields,...
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Zipping along
July 29, 2017 - There was scant time today for hiking because the Main Event was a party at my daughter Kirsten's house to celebrate my...
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Growing
July 21, 2017 - My granddaughter Stasia and I had time for a quick, late afternoon trip to Amos Lake, our go-to favorite swimming hole,...
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Mountain goat
July 18, 2017 - After a wonderful week at nature camp, my granddaughter Stasia decided that, yes, hiking in the woods was back to being...
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Manual labor
July 15, 2017 - A few years ago, my ancient Snapper gas-powered push mower finally bit the dust (it was at least three decades old at th...
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Difficult position
June 29, 2017 - In addition to a wealth of bona fide bumbebees, the air is often buzzing with large, loud, and, to my granddaughter Stas...
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Feather dance
June 27, 2017 - I had an inordinate amount of writing to do today, so I barely got outside, let alone on the trail. But after my wife re...
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Protection from poke
June 22, 2017 - We're going to have to work on her hedge shears technique, but there's no denying my granddaughter's enthusiasm! When I...
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Safe at home
May 27, 2017 - Yet more dreary, on-the-wet-side, chilly weather, which was made all the more depressing by the fact that my granddaught...
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By day and by night treefrog
April 27, 2017 - Last weekend, when we were all together for the Fellman Family Passover Seder, my grandson Lucas and granddaughter Stasi...
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Under the microscope
April 26, 2017 - The rains moved in today, and with the blackflies and gnats in the wet air, my granddaughter Stasia opted for indoor tim...
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Diners, home and away
March 26, 2017 - Little did I know that when I took shots of my granddaughter Stasia enthusiastically and, to be sure, messily, scarfing...
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Welcome to the world, Hatch
March 25, 2017 - According to the critically important writer Richard Louv, we suffer, as a culture, from an awful ailment he dubbed "Nat...
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Alder ID deferred
March 04, 2017 - If I were a more dedicated botanist, I would have already determined—I've been threatening to do this for years—precisel...
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Meeting the hedgehog
February 26, 2017 - Yesterday's ridiculous warmth is giving way to February reality, which is to say, it's getting appropriately chilly agai...
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Snow scene
February 12, 2017 - Winter Storm Orson, whose dire forecasted arrival caused a complete change of plans yesterday and prevented that other a...
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Red bird, red bird
January 06, 2017 - A couple of inches of powdery snow arrived in the pre-dawn hours, and when I got up to liberate the mouse that decided t...
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Three moods for 2017
January 01, 2017 - We let our granddaughter Stasia stay up until midnight to witness her first Dropping of the Ball in the Big Apple—I know...
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The night before
December 24, 2016 - Despite the soothing sentiments of the Clement Moore classic poem, there would be no rest for anyone on the night before...
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Foggy morn
December 11, 2016 - Stasia's safely back home in New Hampshire, and I'm back at work. I did, however, have a little bit of time to get out e...
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Fairy tree
December 11, 2016 - Normally, when my granddaughter Stasia arrives "home"—well, at her second home—our agenda... mine, at least, and, until...
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Catching air
December 09, 2016 - Joy of joys: despite the fact that we had to make the long schlep up to coastal New Hampshire to pick up my granddaughte...
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Leaf child
November 27, 2016 - We had to share Stasia with her other grandparents this long holiday weekend, so we didn't get a lot of time to hit the...
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Worst idea ever
October 23, 2016 - There was significant snow in the White Mountains, but nothing save chill and sunshine along the New Hampshire coast, ou...
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Panorama and close-up
October 15, 2016 - Before I dropped my granddaughter Stasia off for a much-hoped-for sleepover at Auntie's, I wasn't able to interest her i...
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Balancing beam
October 14, 2016 - Joy of joys, the woods are ringing again with the sound of girlish laughter! My granddaughter Stasia is here for the wee...
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Happy mermaid
August 24, 2016 - This was to be the last full day of my granddaughter Stasia's visit, so, on a beautiful, warm-but-not-lethal day, we wen...
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Now batting
August 22, 2016 - On tonight's agenda: bat-watching! In the past, this has been one of Stasia's favorite pastimes, but for reasons that pr...
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Give a girl a feather
August 21, 2016 - Another hot and humid day, another trip to Amos Lake for a swim. But in between splashing in the surprisingly still-refr...
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Shadow dancer
August 19, 2016 - With my granddaughter Stasia enjoying a sleepover with "auntie," I had an unexpected few hours of relatively free time....
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Rhythmic gymnastics
August 08, 2016 - I've never been quite sure how I felt about an Olympic event known as rhythmic gymnastics. On one hand, it's quite beaut...
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Beam me down
August 07, 2016 - The Rio Olympics are now in full swing, and with my granddaughter Stasia back in residence, we're trying to stage our ow...
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Indelible otter
July 15, 2016 - The first real heat of summer is firmly in place, and it kept us off the hiking trails for most of the day. But by mid-a...
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Light show
June 23, 2016 - Whenever my granddaughter Stasia is staying with us in early summer, one activity is guaranteed to be on the agenda: a n...
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Searching for butterflies
June 22, 2016 - Earlier this year, my granddaughter Stasia was fitted for glasses and while they're very pretty, they also seem to have...
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In good company
June 21, 2016 - It isn't that I'm antisocial, but most of my treks are, by near necessity, done alone. I'd be happy to walk with someone...
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The graduate naturalist
June 06, 2016 - Today's destination was coastal New Hampshire, where we drove up north to celebrate my granddaughter Stasia's impending...
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The magic of touch
April 28, 2016 - It was a crummy day: wet, cool, and dreary. Had I been alone, I would have gone out anyway, but instead, my wife and I d...
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Elfin to elfin
April 27, 2016 - My granddaughter Stasia's in residence this week—school vacation—and we finally got in our obligatory hike up Lantern Hi...
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Now we are six
March 26, 2016 - I had hoped that my granddaughter and I could have gotten out for a trek, but today, the two of us were rather preoccupi...
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Womanly arts
January 03, 2016 - Today was driving my convalescing daughter-in-law and granddaughter back home day, and while I would rather have had the...
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Icebreaking
January 02, 2016 - Maybe we actually will have a meteorological winter in 2016... After the insanely warm start of the Once-Cold Season, th...
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Puzzling
December 30, 2015 - With weather that varied between light rain and a near-freezing mist, I wasn't able to spend much time on the trail, and...
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Reawakening
December 26, 2015 - With the Big Day behind us, my shadow and I needed to get in some serious hiking, and given a choice of a wide variety o...
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Very merry Christmas
December 25, 2015 - For years and years—now reaching 40—of my second mixed marriage, I, a rarely observant Reform Jew, not only didn't get C...
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Trimming the tree
December 23, 2015 - We spent most of the day in the car: driving up to New Hampshire to pick up my granddaughter and daughter-in-law, the la...
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Goodbye, summer!
September 06, 2015 - Before we headed up to the lake for a final swim and cookout, my granddaughter Stasia and I had to finish up our chores,...
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Downhill slide
June 23, 2015 - We have a visitor this week, and that, of course, plays hob with my walk schedule... not that I'm complaining. But when...
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The graduate
June 11, 2015 - My wife was still hurting from her fall. I was still exhausted from caregiving and a brutal month of deadline work. It w...
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Shad awakening
April 29, 2015 - With my granddaughter in residence, we've been hitting the local hiking trails daily, and on our agenda today was a trek...
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Time-honored tadpole tradition
April 27, 2015 - The Wood Frog tadpoles started hatching a couple of days ago, but most of them are still sticking pretty close to their...
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The real Gary
April 26, 2015 - Like just about every little kid I run into, my granddaughter is absolutely in love with the characters of the SpongeBob...
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Maiden voyage on snowshoes
March 21, 2015 - Winter, no, Spring Storm Ultima dumped about four inches of fresh powder atop a solid, six-inch crust, and my granddaugh...
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Left behind
March 01, 2015 - Sparta left about six inches of powdery snow in its wake. I did about half the shoveling late last night, and I got up e...
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Snowground
March 01, 2015 - The plan had been that we would bring our granddaughter back home today, but the impending arrival of Winter Storm Spart...
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Today, the toboggan; tomorrow...
February 27, 2015 - OK, I know... this is supposed to be a nature photo-and-essay blog—not an account of the blogger's family. But hey, my g...
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Scaling Everest
February 25, 2015 - It barely got into the 20s today, but the sun was bright and reasonably inviting. We had a full calendar, however, so th...
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The snows of New Hampshire
February 24, 2015 - Today was not going to be a walking day, since we were on a mission to travel north to coastal New Hampshire to pick up...
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The perfect tree
November 30, 2014 - A garden center we know and love sent us a notice about a great sale they were having on Fraser Firs, whose splendidly a...
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The salamander hunter
October 17, 2014 - My granddaughter Stasia was here for the weekend, so we spent as much time outside as possible. Today's agenda called fo...
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