July 2025
Tuesday July 1 Canada Day! Susan has been organizing a group of friends to participate in Visibility Brigades, holding signs over highways, protesting the Administration. Visibility Brigades have been happening for the last few months all over the country, sometimes with the same message at the same time at bridges over a single Interstate for hundreds of miles. We do our protests on the Minuteman Bikeway in Lexington over Interstate 95 during rush hour every week or two. (For my non-American friends, Lexington is the site of the first battle in the America Revolution, on April 19, 1775.) Here's today's sign, along with the special shirt I got in honour of Canada Day. I know this isn't exactly a nature note, but I couldn't resist. Thursday July 3 Went to Ward's Pond to check on the swans and their cygnets - everyone is fine, still 5 cygnets. There was also a female wood duck with 11(!) ducklings, still fairly small. The wood duck mom swam over to the swan ne...