Wild Nantucket

Wood Lily Lilium Philidelphium Our Brooklyn kids and our four grandchildren left Nantucket yesterday and the house seems oddly quiet. I real...

  Blueberries Swamp Azalea, Rhododendron Viscosa Colicroot at Windswept Bog, Aletra Farinosa The arrowhead viburnum has run its course.  Wha...

 My new kayak  has been launched!  It was so upsetting to have my trusty Walden stolen from Polpis Harbor in late October. I had to replace ...

  Yellow-crowned night heron There have been a series of articles in the New York Times about Americans “de-churching” , disengaging from c...

Coming and going to an island makes the seasons of the spring seem more defined than they might be if I were in one place. Returning to Na...

Eastern Kingbird!   Anticipation is the heart of spring.  I look forward …not just to the daffodils and shad and beach plum blossoms, but al...

Back from “America,” I am eager to see spring arrive in Nantucket. There are insects and pollinators dancing around on the moors. There is...