We are waiting on the appraiser to finalize this refinance which is pretty much set to go, minus the appraisal — which i think went pretty well. It takes about a week for an appraisal to come through and it’s… Read More ›
Nature
Standing Up for What is Just and Equitable | Your Great Outdoors – Reblog – By David J. O’Neill, President
This week marks my first week as President of Mass Audubon. I had planned to introduce myself to all of you by sharing my excitement and enthusiasm for what lies ahead. And I am extremely excited t… Source: Standing Up… Read More ›
AN ARRAY OF PAST FLOWERS – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – April 23 – Past Flowers It’s another grey, cold day. I’m not yearning for flowers as a dedicated gardener. I just long for color. It has been gray and often very dark gray almost all the time since… Read More ›
WILDLIFE IN THE WAY – Marilyn Armstrong
Despite all evidence to the contrary, I continue to hope that we will come to our senses and save our wild creatures. That being said, I have serious doubts that anything larger than a squirrel will survive in the wild. I… Read More ›
SPRING HAS SPRUNG, THE GRASS HAS RIZ – Marilyn Armstrong
BUT I KNOW WHERE THE FLOWERS IS … Today is the day. The very first day of Spring 2020. The technical beginning of spring, though having not had much of a winter, it’s been fairly springlike since last December. The… Read More ›
FLYING SQUIRRELS AND BIG FURRY RACCOONS – Marilyn Armstrong
We knew we’d gotten a lot of pictures last night because a lot of food went missing. About 4 pounds of food from the big feeder and maybe another two from the smaller one. We moved the camera from the… Read More ›
ABOUT THE LIGHT – Marilyn Armstrong
Why do you take pictures? What makes you pick up your camera? Is it just the beauty of the scene? Or the smile on someone’s face? I’m sure it is different for each of us, but this morning, I remembered… Read More ›
MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD – Marilyn Armstrong
I grew up in a semi-rural nook in the middle of Queens, New York. The city had surrounded us leaving a tiny enclave walking distance from the subway. The house was more than a hundred years old. It had been… Read More ›
DON’T PUT ME IN CHARGE! – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Ruler Let me start by saying I do not want to rule the world. I don’t even want to rule this house. Not even a tiny corner of it. I get exhausted trying to manage dogs, convince… Read More ›
MORE HINTS OF BLUE – Marilyn Armstrong
MORE THAN A HINT OF BLUE A kayak on the Blackstone River. Dressed in blue and in a blue kayak. And the water is blue … Just your basic blue day in early summer. What better way to spend a… Read More ›
CLYTEMNESTRA’S LAMENT – GUEST POST By KARIN LAINE MCMILLEN
Introduction Many of us have the mental image of nature as somehow kinder, sweeter, more gentle than the lives we lead. On a fundamental reality level, I knew that wasn’t true, but as long as all I saw were flying… Read More ›
FEATHERS – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feathers Since last November, the bird feeders on the deck have been supplying me with more than ample amounts of feathers. Usually, birds go with the features, though I do have some feathery things that are not… Read More ›
WEDNESDAY’S BIRDS – Marilyn Armstrong
We’ve got funeral in Boston today and Garry needs to speak. This was not only one of his colleagues but a friend to both of us. I will miss Tom Ellis. We will both miss him very much. This also… Read More ›
ALL CREATURES – Marilyn Armstrong
Many creatures crossed our deck today. When I first peeked out my bathroom window at around 5 in the morning, there were three squirrels hanging onto the feeders. I went back to bed. When I got up later, there were… Read More ›
HUNTERS AND HUNTED – Marilyn Armstrong
We live in the Blackstone Valley. During our 18 years here, more and more predatory animals have moved into the region. We used to have rabbits and chipmunks and other small mammals. I remember when the chipmunks used to line… Read More ›
THE NEWEST SQUIRREL – Marilyn Armstrong
Most of the squirrels who come to hang out on the flat feeder are bigger and fatter. They have scars, some of them relatively new and raw. This was quite a small squirrel. Not scars that I could see, not… Read More ›
