Muskrat At Saugus River
Muskrat! Was convalescing while chatting with a friend along the Saugus River, just upstream of the Saugus Iron Works, on a recent afternoon. We got quiet for a while. And…Continue Reading →
Horseshoe Crabs Nesting At Mouth Of Saugus River
Horseshoe crabs like to do their ancient, annual nesting/mating at the highest tide at the full moon or new moon in late May, early June. Which around these parts was…Continue Reading →
Herring Make Annual Spawning Run At Woburn’s Horn Pond Dam
Herring trying to get up the rocks at Horn Pond Dam in Woburn, Massachusetts. Part of a documentary video I’m working on about their annual spring spawning run up the…Continue Reading →
‘Baby Animals Festival’ At Hancock Shaker Village
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, launched one of the great rites of spring in the Berkshires: the village’s annual “Baby Animals Festival,” running…Continue Reading →
Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival: Photos
Gore Place, the historic, 50-acre estate in Waltham, welcomed spring today with its annual Sheepshearing Festival. It featured demonstrations of traditional shearing techniques, herding dogs, historic re-enactors, music, craft and…Continue Reading →
Waterfall At Beaver Brook Reservation
Another waterfall close to Boston is the Cascade at the Commonwealth’s Beaver Brook Reservation along the Belmont-Waltham line. Beaver Brook flows from Lexington through Belmont and Waltham to the Charles…Continue Reading →
Escape From The Bitter Cold In A Greenhouse
When it gets especially freezy out, I like to escape to a local greenhouse for a bit of warm, green humidity. So I recently made a getaway to the Lyman…Continue Reading →
Frozen Waterfall A Short Walk From End Of Orange Line
The Cascade in the Middlesex Fells is always dazzling after a fresh snow–and especially after a few weeks of freezing temperatures have turned the waterfall into an ice palace. The…Continue Reading →
The Start Of The Mississippi River
At the end of the summer, the 11-year-old and I drove up to the start of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota. We arrived just after sunset, and the darkening…Continue Reading →
Century-Old Shipwreck Emerges From Sand At Ipswich’s Crane Beach
In February, pieces of a century-old shipwreck began emerging from the sand at the northwest end of Ipswich’s Crane Beach—a jagged, 50-foot-long fragment of the starboard side of schooner’s wooden…Continue Reading →