Franklin County Fair

Remember how irked I was by The Big E? Not the company, of course. But the lack of animals and pies made by teenagers then adorned with ribbons? I’ve been…

Whale Watch

Mom got it into her head that we needed to go on a whale watch during their visit. I’ve never gone on one because I figured it’d be a lot…

Crane Beach

Mom and Dad are here this week, playing tourists and visiting two out of three of their monkeys (Monkey #3 remains at home, where he has begun college). Today’s activity…

Woods Hole and Falmouth (sort of)

We did what basically amounted to a drive-by of Woods Hole and Falmouth Saturday. A late start, traffic and dinner plans conspired to give us all of an hour and…

Crane Beach

Tanya and Chris pitied my lack of beach-going this year and invited me along to Crane Beach yesterday. Nice day for it: not too hot, a little breeze, and the…

The Challenges

I’ve added two new pages that you can see over on the right: The Mass Audubon Challenge and The Trustees of Reservations Challenge (which should probably actually The The Trustees…).…

Marblehead

Please hold for a ton of photos of Marblehead MA, which is where we played tourist all day Sunday. It’s going to be just shot after shot of pretty town.…

Babson Boulders

I’d been meaning to check out the Babson Boulders for years, but it took Joe to finally make it happen (“Want to check out the Babson Boulders?” “Yeah, ok.”) I’ll…

Sugaring

Saturday we decided to learn how maple sugar is produced. Well, how it’s produced at the Ipswich River Adubuon Sanctuary. I’ve been to tours in the great Middle West. But…

Ipswich River (again, again)

Yeah, I went back. Please don’t make fun of me. This time I brought a Scout. She explained that while it’s OK for me to keep posting photos of birds,…

Ipswich River (again)

I’m basically haunting the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary. Took several new trails yesterday and basically did a big loop around the whole thing. Lots of wood ducks, red squirrels (Tamiasciurus…

Ipswich River

Yesterday I went to the Ipswich River sanctuary with the Martises, and today I went back again. Now I have some bird photos for you. First, nothing special: a chickadee.…

Great Meadows

I’ve been meaning to head over to Great Meadows one evening after work. It’s about an hour to walk the whole loop, and I figured there’d be good bird watching…

Peabody-Essex Museum (again)

Today turned out to be another field trip to PEM, which I will never turn down. Why am I not a member? Really. I’ve paid for two memberships by now…