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Monthly Archives: January 2017

Maples and More. Otter Heaven. Mill Brook.

January 31, 2017by tompostpile 5 Comments

Who welcomed me into the swamp as I started my quest for the Stepping Stones? A big swamp maple. Some call them red maples. The brook – and too many […]

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2017, Martha's Vineyard, Mill Brook, Nature, photograph, trees, West Tisbury

Symplocarpus foetidus in the Mill Brook Swamps

January 30, 2017by tompostpile 6 Comments

Bushwhacking along the brooks and in the swamps keeps getting more and more enticing. Every time I go on another expedition I see something amazing, find something fascinating, or just […]

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2017, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, Mill Brook, photograph, West Tisbury

January Walk, Mill Brook Valley,West Tisbury

January 29, 2017by tompostpile 4 Comments

When I was a kid, my main water haunt was the Tiasquam River, which ran just below my house. From there, its valley extended upstream another three and a half miles. The […]

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2017, Essay, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Mill Brook, Nature, trees, West Tisbury

Music Street of a Late January Evening

January 28, 2017by tompostpile 7 Comments

I’d been in the house all day, and was antsy as could be. The body needed exercise, and there was a mailbox a half mile away, a mailbox that might […]

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2017, Martha's Vineyard, Music Street, photograph, West Tisbury

Warm winter, Late Snowdrops?

January 27, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

As winter begins, days start to lengthen. The increasing light signals plants to prepare for spring. Snowdrops (galanthus nivalis) are among the first responders. I have seen them blooming as […]

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2017, Flowers, Gardening, Martha's Vineyard, Music Street, Nature, photograph, West Tisbury

Boston Women’s March, 1/21/17

January 21, 2017by tompostpile 1 Comment

The tompostpile usually prefers to stick with posts that stay away from topics that are covered at length elsewhere. Today’s worldwide Women’s Marches have been thoroughly covered by the media. […]

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2017, Boston Women's March, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, photograph

Lichen It

January 20, 2017by tompostpile 3 Comments

I went on a great walk the other afternoon. I left home not long after lunch, and didn’t get home until dark. Today there’s not enough time to assemble those […]

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2017, Abstracts, Color, Martha's Vineyard, Mill Brook, Nature, photograph

A Quansoo Opening in January, with Reflections on the Universe.

January 17, 2017by tompostpile 9 Comments

We’d gone to Black Point Beach purely on a let’s-get-out-of-the-house whim. But when we got there and saw Dale McClure’s dump truck and big trailer, and then then discovered excavator tracks […]

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2017, Black Point Beach, Essay, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Quansoo, South Beach

January Black Point Beach Trip

January 16, 2017by tompostpile 3 Comments

Hey, it’s a nice day! Do you want to go down to Black Point? Sure, why not? Let’s go as soon as last year’s seeds are sorted and put in […]

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2017, Black Point Beach, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Quansoo

Old Stone Walls, Visited

January 15, 2017by tompostpile 1 Comment

Martha’s Vineyard is a dump. It’s a pile of material the glaciers scraped from the land to our north and dumped when they stopped. Think of those glaciers of ten thousand […]

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2017, Essay, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, trees

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