We went out to Nahanton Park pretty late (around 11!) this morning. The bluebirds were nowhere to be seen, but we did hear and see a house wren, first of year, behind the lower garden plots. In the brush just off the path along the soccer field there was a towhee, which should not be …
Tag Archives: Nature
Bluebirds at Nahanton Park
We got up at 6 AM, had coffee, and were at Nahanton Park by 6:35 to look for birds. We expect to keep that kind of hours frequently for the next five or six weeks, until spring migration is over. Arlene has seen reports of palm warblers in Maine, so she thought there could be …
Duolingo Strategy
Some time between the time Arlene & I went to Costa Rica (on a Caravan tour, in 2010) and to Guatemala (another Caravan tour, in 2015) I started studying Spanish on a website called Duolingo. Actually, Duolingo kept track of me; it says I started in September, 2014. I got surprisingly far by the Guatemala …
TJs second time in a year
This is definitely an “emerging from the pandemic” post; the big event of the day was that I ventured to Trader Joe’s to do some serious grocery shopping. Arlene and I had been there once before since the start of the pandemic; it was during special early morning hours (and we had got up early …
Walked along Charles
We met Charley’s family at the Shaw’s parking lot on River Street in Waltham and walked along the river. The shopping center (strip mall, more like it) there was built back when I was a first year (maybe second year, but I don’t think so) graduate student, back maybe in the spring of 1966. That …
Is there a problem?
Dean and Arlene return from evening birding expedition. Dean pulls car into driveway. Headlights momentarily shine under the other car, illuminating something that doesn’t look just like the muffler. Dean backs up and pulls forward to the point where the lights are shining under the other car again. Arlene: Is there a problem? Dean: No, …