Quansoo. Ice at Tisbury Great Pond.
Down at Quansoo, in midwinter, ice locks land and water in solid embrace. Tisbury Great Pond, Quansoo’s eastern boundary, freezes into a hundreds-of-acres plane of ice. The flatness of this […]
Category Archives: 2014
Falling at Quansoo.
Across Crab Creek bridge is a short ess of a well-walked path. Today at path’s end a drift of sand partly fills the notch in the dunes. We see but […]
Gelid Crab Creek Crossing, Quansoo.
It’s been cold, the coldest January in years. Our woodstove is hungry. When it’s frigid out, the second story chills off, and we feel cold air cascading down the stairs. We […]
West Tisbury Winter: From Turkeys to the Moon
Recent winters have been relatively gentle, but this winter has been rougher. New England weather is famous for its changeability. Some recent days have been benign, others have been biting […]
A Bird Left Poetry…
The first night’s efforts of a winter storm and cold spell left snowdust on our mudroom porch. In that early morning snowdust were tracks. Tracks from someone who had been […]
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