Took the concrete highway into concrete hell again today and will do the reverse jaunt tonight. Why do this to yourself, you say? Because I get to go home, that’s why! Home at last after all these years of merely “residing”. Without a sense of place there’s merely that sense of loss that you can’t […]
Archive for November, 2010
Concrete evidence
Posted in Rants & Raves on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thoughts of winter green
Posted in Flora on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While walking around the kettle ponds of Nickerson State park I couldn’t help but notice Gaultheria procumbens (wintergreen) littered among the pine needles and brambles. Simple in design and barren of flower this time of year it would be easy to ignore it but for the sheer numbers of this three-leaf creeper. Here and there […]
Pearls before swine
Posted in Interesting on November 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Getting into the muck and briny scum to look for treasure… That’s how I spent my morning or at least a half hour or so. Oystering, that is what I am referring to… They are still plentiful, even though I have gone and gathered a couple of hundred or so, just over the last few […]
Run for cover
Posted in Flora on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ground cover, that is. I get really excited about plants, especially the miniature gems that go about their business without relying on splashy colors and petal size. One of my current favorites is partridgeberry (Mitchella repens). While visiting coastal Maine on the Columbus day weekend I happened to find extensive mats of this miniature creeper. […]
Soft launch
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I could not have picked a better time to embark on this blogging adventure. It’s Thanksgiving and I have a lot to give thanks for, not in the least the fact that I live in a wonderful little corner of Cape Cod. Why a blog? What’s so special about my yard that I feel the need to […]