Wild Nantucket

Like Thoreau, I have a longing for wildness. The more digital and technological life becomes, the more I love the wild.  It may seem strange...

  On September 16,  I hiked Norwood Farm. The downy Goldenrod is in full bloom, contrasting with the deep red of the Little bluestem grasses...

  Quiet walk this morning, August 26, at Windswept Bog. Fall encroaches. The weather has been crystal. A Merlin flashes from a pine tree top...

  Milestone Bog, August 8 Little ladies tresses in the grasses, Bush clover waving in the wind, Sickle leaved silkgrass and Early sweet ever...

Sabatia Campanula Gull-billed Tern,  Gelochelidon nilotica Lots of excitement is generated when a rarity is found.  Jacqui Papale,  Nantucke...