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.”
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”