December 2022
December 2 We went to Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm, in Lincoln, just west of Boston, to see their sheep, goats and pigs and to pick up some holiday cards at the gift shop. Also saw their two foxes, snoozing in the mild weather in their pen. After lunch in Concord, we walked in the town forest (ok, really some woods about half a mile from the center of town, hardly what qualifies to a Canadian as "forest"), along the Emerson-Thoreau Amble trail. This little pond is about half way between its more famous neighbor, Walden Pond, and Concord. December 4 On an afternoon walk in Susan's neighborhood in Cambridge, saw these snowdrops blooming, confused by all the mild weather we've been having. December 5 In the afternoon, after picking up Maddie from her grooming appointment (she's at maximum cuteness), I took her for a walk in the Arb's conifer collection, where we heard an owl, maybe a barred owl, hooting right close to us. I looked up into the nearby ...