Jumping Right In – Our First Snowstorm Here
This week Puxatawney Phil, the ‘winter’s end’ predicting groundhog, said we were not going to get an extension of winter this year, just the usual February 2 plus six weeks. So, assuming he is correct, winter ends on March 15!
But, before that, I wanted to tell you about our first snowstorm experience here.
29th Annual Winter Bird Census – 27 species, 800 birds
On the Medford campus there were 27 species, 800 birds; at the 17th winter census on the Lumberton Campus there were 34 species and more than 2000 birds, more than a thousand of which were Canada Geese. Both campuses had swarms of robins filling up on bright red holly berries.
Jumping Right In – A Concert
I came by my fondness for classical music in my childhood. Sundays started with church, then a big breakfast made by my father, on to clean-up, reading the papers, and playing in our rooms. Early afternoon, we had a formal dinner of chicken, biscuits, gravy, creamed carrots, in the dining room, I would be still in my Sunday dress and my younger brothers in their white shirts, ties, and Brylcreme. Then it was nap time.
Jumping Right In: A Holiday Wish
This may not sound like a holiday greeting card, inviting you to enjoy the warmth of the season and the promise of a new year. But it is.
There is nothing like relocating, to start a new phase of life, to make you overwhelmingly aware of all you have, and all you want and think you want, of possessions, routine and tradition.
Costanza Photos at Palmyra Cove
Photographs by resident Joe Costanza, a world class nature photographer, are being exhibited at the Palmyra Cove Nature Park during the entire month of December.
Joe is a well-known prize-winning photographer whose work has been published in important periodicals, including Nature’s Best, Birders World Magazine, and the Nature Photographers’ Annual.
Jumping Right In: Birding
This past Friday, October 30, was a sunny, temperate fall day.
At 8 am we joined about 20 other people in front of the Medford Leas’ main campus Community Building for the “Medford Leas Birders Trip to Brigantine.”