A short saunter away from my home on Spring Street there is a park – Prospect Park. I have been coming to this park all my life. I have seen her in all her seasons, in all sorts of weather, at all times of day, but perhaps my favorite time of all are those mornings …
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Rock Point in December
Alas, even the trees in the limestone bluff natural community have lost the vast majority of their leaves, and the rustling of the wind through the trees has gone silent in their absence. Only the pines, hemlocks, spruces, and cedars remain green. A few shrubs cling desperately to their leaves, save for the mountain laurel. …
My Site at Home
Prospect Park is a small plot of forest that is now under the custody of the Town of Shrewsbury, which is where I grew up for the better part of my childhood. The land has had a lot of interesting uses in the past, having served as both an estate for the powerful Whittall family, …
Rock Point in November
This weekend was a phenological circus; the temperature soared into the 70’s on Saturday, despite the fact that Autumn’s time is already halfway through. In the Cedar-Pine forest on Rock Point’s limestone bluffs, you’d hardly be able to tell that Winter is well on his way. When I climbed the steps up to the Cedar-Pine …
Welcome (back) to Rock Point!
While we were discovering the unique features of Rock Point in my Natural History lab, we learned about the special limestone bluff cedar-pine forest that was within; that these unusual ecosystems only occur on limestone bluffs overlooking water, and that they have longer growing seasons due the moisture from Lake Champlain. Naturally, I was curious …