February 2024

  • The Wood Frogs Have Arrived

    The Wood Frogs Have Arrived

    I was walking the path through the woods off of Ship Road near our house today and I could hear the wood frogs calling.  They have a cackling sound – sort of like chickens in the yard.  I slowly made my way through the thick brush to a vernal pool where there must have…

  • I’m Back from Tanzania with Lots of Baby Pictures!!!

    I’m Back from Tanzania with Lots of Baby Pictures!!!

    As I write this we are having a wild, wild blizzard outside our window in Charlestown Meadows.  Yowza!!  I’ve just returned from a magnificent trip to Tanzania with Todd Gustafson and friends.  It was the birthing season and the baby wildebeests and zebras and gazelles and giraffes were being born at every turn in…