The Urban Pantheist

Dead insects overhead (mostly yellow jackets).

We had ourselves a little adventure at the Quincy Seashore. There were many opportunities for noticing things and making discoveries along the beach and in the salt marsh. We found this tiny shark, which I can't identify because I didn't at the time know what field markings to look for. I did a little research and I think next time I'll have a chance. It's probably a spiny dogfish.



There are eight more photographs, including another dead thing that might be a little harder to look at than this well-picked over fish. Standard dead animal warning. (It's not that bad, but I thought you should know). There's also a panorama that might push the edges of your page around.( Read more... )

A snapping turtle wallowing in the Muddy River shallows. I haven't seen this behavior before.( Read more... )

belen1974, rockbalancer, cottonmanifesto, chaggie and I went on a hiking adventure at Mt. Misery, conservation land in Lincoln Massachusetts. I reasoned that away from the shore there was less icing, and so hiking would not be so difficult. It was, in fact, pretty strenuous. We also got lost, adding a couple miles to the hike, and ended up scaling the mountain (a tiny Massachusetts mountain, but hard to do anyway) and hiking through frozen swamps and along the Sudbury River. All the above lj people have posted pictures of the hike (or will soon, hint hint rockbalancer), and it might be fun for you to compare them.



To adventure!

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