JOURNAL
A Marshy Meander
Perhaps a mile north of the Baldwin Bridge carrying Interstate 95 over the Connecticut River, I slipped my kayak into the river, New England’s largest at 410 miles. It is easily a mile wide here near its mouth.
Woods and Water
Took advantage of a day of decent weather – sunny, temperature eventually getting well up into the 70s – and drove to Nehantic State Forest in Lyme a few days ago.
A Most Pleasant Paddle
It had been too long since I last paddled this stretch of the Farmington River. Perhaps 30 years ago, maybe 40 years ago, maybe 45 years ago.
A Peaceful, Quiet Place for a Special Walk
Topsmead State Forest in Litchfield has forest aplenty, for sure, but this is not your typical Connecticut state forest.
Paddling a Lake of Links
I’d seen references to Lake of Isles in North Stonington, CT, over the years, including one in “A Fisheries Guide to Lakes and Ponds of Connecticut,” published in 2002 by what is now the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
A Trek in Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Florida
Hiked yesterday in Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, FL, with Jay Knobel, a great old friend who I met in college decades ago.
My 35th Audubon Christmas Bird Count
Just getting around to a post on the annual National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count in the Hartford area, held this past December 16.
Kicking Around in the Tetons
If you have never visited Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming – and I strongly suggest you do – you might not know that the park is far more than a bunch of big, saw-toothed mountains, one after the other on a north-south axis.
A canoe returns some of the buoyancy of life.
— Edwin Way Teale, late 20th-Century Connecticut naturalist and author, from “Circle of the Seasons”