Wild Nantucket

Milestone Bog with Steeplebush The midsummer weather has swung into high gear, with steamy days in the eighties.   It was 80 degrees by 9 am...

Wood lily, lilium philadelphicum This morning I went on my Pout Ponds walk at 7 am in a brisk 24 mph wind from the southwest. The temperat...

The moon is at its closest to the earth this month,  its perigee.  The full moon is called the Buck Moon because the male deer begin to grow...

I feel like I missed most of June in Nantucket this year.  Josh and I hiked the West Highland Way in Scotland during the first two weeks of ...

June 14, 2022   It’s not yet formally summer…but the early sunrises (5:08 this morning) and the late sunsets make it seem so. The angle of ...

Brown Thrasher  at Windswept Bog   I love a new experience. It may be why I love birding.  There is elation at hearing or seeing a bird that...

In the mud In the greening moss In the fern fiddles pushing up from water In the unleaved  gnarls of the beech’s arms And the newly red-budd...