Birding on Bringantine
Not many avocations compel one to rise before dawn and drive 50 miles to a remote destination. However, 23 participants did just that for the Pathways to Learning birding trip to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (Brigantine) on October 30. It was the largest Medford Leas Birders field trip group, and all were rewarded with a cool, sunny, and otherwise spectacular day of birding.
Jumping Right In: Our First Season
We moved here on June 23. This year, summer began on June 21 and ended on September 23, so we spent almost all of summer in our new home! And, to me, summer proved to be a very good time to arrive! (Not to disrespect Fall, which is already beautiful here, Winter, where I will not be shoveling or blowing snow, and Spring, which I expect to check out every growing thing in both arboretums!)
Day Trip: Cranberry Harvest
Twenty four Medford Leas residents traveled the short distance down route 70 to Brown’s Mills, New Jersey where Joe and Brenda Darlington’s Pine Barrens Native Fruits Farm is located.
Covering several thousand acres we witnessed the cranberry harvest after hearing Brenda talk about the industry, and its history much of which was started by Josiah White, whose daughter Elizabeth created the campus where the pickers lived.
Jumping Right In: Labor Day, Change, and an Invitation
Our monthly gathering at the Lumberton Leas Community Center on Labor Day led me to thinking about change and about the persistence of change.
The temperature and humidity seemed to be easing off as a sign that Fall was on the way.
The theme for our Labor Day potluck was “Salute to the Pioneers”
How I Became a “Hummingbird Whisperer”
It all started this summer. But then again, in thinking about it, I suppose it really began last fall.
It was a cold and rainy September morning as I sat reading in my sun porch. Suddenly there was a “thump” against the window and when I ventured out onto my deck to see what happened
Jumping Right In: Some of the Many Welcomes
These are my three favorite examples of how the people here extend themselves to newcomers, and how helpful and reassuring that has been as we began our retirement life!
First, at the end of only our second visit to the main campus of Medford Leas, our Senior Life Consultant Marianne S. suggested that since our route home would take us right past the Leas’ Lumberton campus, we should drive in and look around.