Wild Nantucket

High summer means the Queen Anne's Lace and chicory on the road-sides and bike-path-sides. Sickle-leaved asters on the moor roads.  Toot...

I became consumed by the desire to see an orchid I have not seen on Nantucket.  David Policansky posted a picture of a White-fringed orchid,...

Lilium philadelphium Elsa was not the only storm to hit Nantucket.  Our three sons, their wives and three grandchildren 5 and under visited ...

        Indian Pipes, Monotropa uniflora             Squam Swamp is a wonderful wood, deep and wet and filled with ferns.  It seems primal, ...

  July 8:  One whole section of Milestone bog is hosting hundreds of swamp candles,  lysimachia terristris.  Take the main path and turn lef...

  The common yellowthroats are The UMASS Field Station were having a feast when we visited on July 5.  There was also a bonus of  3 greater ...

      Piping plover mama banded 9VE does the broken win trick  at Smith's Point on July 6 to divert me from seeing her chicks.