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Naturally Kingston
Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Danger at the Pond
[Jun. 17, 2005] When I take a group of kids on a walk at the South Shore Natural Science Center, my number one rule is that I go first. I set the pace, and I know where we are going. A lesser reason is so that I can look out for any danger on the trail. In 11 years, so far no dangerous wild animals. Until early June this year. It wasn’t a coyote, or a rabid animal, it wasn’t even a mammal. It was a swan!
What is Life
[Apr. 15, 2005] Scientists, philosophers, and religious people have argued over what is life for as long as words have been spoken, and they argue still. Each of us will have their own experience and their own ideas. I have no answer. It is a question that, as a scientist and a human, I have chosen not to discuss, or even think about. There are no answers, or there are too many.
Snow, Snow, and More Snow
[Mar. 20, 2005] We broke a record for Kingston snowfall this year, with 106 inches by the first of March. All that snow is difficult enough for us to deal with, but it continues to be a severe hardship for our wildlife.
Nature's Pantry
[Feb. 18, 2005] Some foods were in scarce supply this winter. Oaks and maples were hit hard by canker worms last spring, just at the time new seeds were forming, and you have to wonder how squirrels got to their buried food under all that snow...
Wild Coyotes in Kingston
[Jan. 20, 2005] The first coyote I ever saw was years ago, in the southwest. I was driving through the desert at dawn, when the mountains appear like black silhouettes against the sky. Suddenly, several hundred yards from the road, there was a coyote, loping along...
Natural Recycling
[Dec. 16, 2004] Mother Nature recycles everything, living, dead, or otherwise. Even the rocks the earth is made of are formed, melted, scoured, and reformed again. Soil is made from the compost of leaves and other organic and inorganic stuff that collects on the ground. Rivers carry water to the sea that fell as rain that might have reached the sky after it evaporated from a forest thousands of miles away. It is these patterns of reuse and renewal that keep our earth from drowning in piles of litter, and makes the fields and forest beautiful in their freshness.
 Hackmatack
[Nov. 5, 2004] When you live in one house for a long time, individual trees tend to take on a personality; at least they do for me. That personality is linked to the activities in and around them. At the house where I live now, there is an evergreen that is not and evergreen; a tamarack.
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