A fine sunny morning is underway. I go upstairs and go out on the deck to look at the turkey nest below. Chicks have hatched, and are starting to move […]

While this post is not about the cat and the hat… the turkey mom sat and sat and sat. How about that! I looked over the deck rail, and said […]

We tend to get wrapped up in the affairs of home and domestic life. There are chores quotidian, seasonal to-do lists, the garden to tend, and all the deferred maintenance […]

For weeks, the turkey hen has been incubating her clutch of nine eggs. It’s a hot morning. She makes a quiet “chuck” call as I approach the deck railing, from […]

More years than not, a hen turkey will choose a place in our yard, or right next to the house, for a place to start her year’s family. The nest […]

A bouquet of June Iris… Top views. Side views Purples. Whites. Rain-dappled. So ruffled… We brought a stem in the other day. It had fallen to the ground. Its scent […]

Yesterday and the day before brought us a nice drenching 1.32″ rain. In the afternoon things cleared, and I went to check the new garden, where the tomatoes are being […]

Somebody handed us a rhizome a year or two back, and said, “Try it, you’ll like it!”. So we’re trying it. This year it has sent up a flower. The […]

The first Saturday of each month is a contra dance night at the Woods Hole Community Hall. One excellent custom with contra dancing is that it’s usually done to live […]

Christine and I were walking to the car in Woods Hole, when we noticed four or five people just standing, leaning on the School Street railing next to WH’s Eel […]