3:00 snapshot #1844: Saturday

Despite how he looks, Carlisle doesn't really have that bad a life with us.


Sometimes my dad comes to visit!


And Charlie is there to teach him how to drink from a frozen bird bath.

Practically winter

My dad and I went walking near Brook Farm in West Roxbury yesterday. It was the last day of autumn.

Picflood on the horizon

I participated in a great Urban Nature Walk today, at Great Blue Hill. I brought my new (used, crappy) camera in order to figure out how to use it and to try and get some lichen pics. I ended up shooting exactly 100 pictures. I edited them down to 37. Probably a better person could winnow that down to maybe 5 worth sharing. I am not that person. Gird yourself--I think I'll break it into 4 posts--the longest one will be all lichen!

December Urban Nature Walk at Great Blue Hill, part one

5 people for a December Urban Nature walk is pretty good! This was our group picture, taken from the top of Great Blue Hill, the highest point near Boston (also the highest point within 10 miles of the coast, in Southern New England).

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December Urban Nature Walk at Great Blue Hill, part two

This is Monotropa uniflora, a parasitic plant, still identifiable as a wintry corpse.

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