December 2025 Jamaica Pond, Cape Ann, Plum Island
Sunrise Jamaica Pond December 16 Monday December 1 While this is not strictly a nature note, I couldn't resist including this new Massachusetts license plate, featuring the Cat in the Hat, to celebrate a Springfield, Massachusetts native, Ted Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss. I spotted this one in the main parking lot in JP. When I was a kid, my brothers and I used to play the license plate game, trying to see a plate from every Canadian province and US state in a single year; Niagara Falls, where we grew up, is a particularly good location for this. My parents would drive us down to the Falls for an outing, and instead of looking at the Falls, we would check out the license plates on the cars parked along the road. The hardest plates to see were Newfoundland and Labrador; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Hawaii and Alaska: far away places with few people. The absolute best plate is the iconic NWT plate: white plate in the shape of a polar bear . As you can...