Wild Nantucket

  We saw a flock of pine siskins at the Sunday birdwalk  at Low Beach,  and now they are being seen all over the island.  It's an "...

  A blustery day hike called for the protection of Stump Pond.  Although the tupelos' reds are mostly gone,  the sweet pepper is yellow,...

Ken Blackshaw gave me the word that a Caspian Tern had been seen at Founder's Monument in Madaket on Saturday,  but I couldn't get o...

The other markers of the changing season:  the Harvest Moon rising out of the Ocean,  and the sunrise starting more southward every day.  We...

If I were in Cambridge at this time of year,  I would go through my closet and remove all the sleeveless dresses and other summer clothes to...