Wild Nantucket

  The promise of spring is that the blossoms will mature into fruit.  The low-bush blueberries are now here,  and the high-bush blueberries ...

  June 2:  As I walked this morning at Norwood Farm,  the scent of swamp azalea filled me up.    It was the pleasure of a deep inhalation th...

The traffic on the roads and the bike paths has announced the formal arrival of summer.  The hydrangea haven’t  opened yet, but the New Dawn...

  It is the time of the southwest wind, with warm gusts causing everything on this island to move and dance: the grasses, now feet-high, the...

  Oystercatcher at Eel Point One of at least 8 piping plover A view of the marsh Sedum growing in the sand at Eel Point Josh and I hiked Eel...

Josh and I took a walk around Windswept Bog on Thursday June 17. It used to be a working cranberry bog, but is now in the process of retu...

  The Song of Solomon has a wonderful description of the coming of spring and summer: "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the...