Morning walk flowers
Some wild (and not so wild) flowers seen while walking the dogs around town in the morning.
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Redheads
I had a text from my birder friend Gerry who sighted two redhead ducks on the small pond the park - a rare visit in the local sense, but not totally unexpected as migration follows its familiar pattern. Migration happens in stages over time, it's not a single
SNOW!
Our most recent snow accumulated six to eight inches topped with a taxing and tiresome icy crust. This is followed by a stretch of intense cold that (as is forecast at this writing) will not top the freezing mark for nearly two weeks. Difficult footing and daunting wind-chills made my
Recently at Nixon Park - January 2026
It's January and the cold winter sun traces a meager arc on the southern horizon for less than half a day. I found myself longing for July's overgenerous sun that stands overhead for hours. Even so the long, cold, shadows of winter have their charms, and
Black Walnut Economy
Deep in the winter after last season's mast year of Black walnuts the gray squirrels and red squirrels are spending the currency they banked before the cold set in. Gray squirrels bury individual nuts or acorns but red squirrels are "larder hoarders": they make piles. You