Last Saturday, I set up a table at the Show Up Brimfield, Holland, Wales event. The goal of the event was to bring folks in these three small towns together …
Summer Flowers
Spring is an exciting time in the woodlands, there are so many spring or ephemeral wildflowers blooming that it is it is hard to keep track of them all – …
Garden Visits
My daughter is heading up to Maine this weekend to go camping with her roommates. She texted me this morning and was asking about a garden we visited on a …
Birds!
Migration may be over, but I had a whopper of a list after birding this morning. 60 species! Most of these birds can be found along our walking trails …
Bluebirds
When I was in grammar school I remember singing a song at recess, “Bluebird, bluebird through my window” and now that I think of it I never recall seeing a …
Lady’s Slippers!
The number one plant that people call the Sanctuary about are the lady’s slippers. This is the week to come see the small yellow lady’s slippers in our gardens. There …
Spring III
Spring has arrived, slowly but surely. This has been a perfect spring season for me as I have been able to keep up with changes in the garden over the …
The Intruder
Curiosity: It drives us to do curious things like look under rocks and logs, peek into tree cavities or to don waders and grab a net and see what you …
Spring II
In the last blog I talked about spring – and a little about the factors that determine what (and when) spring starts. In this blog I want to talk about …
Spring
Spring began at 6:29am on Monday March 20th. So why are we still looking at snow? For most of us the tease of warm weather that occurred in late February …