One of the many cool things about the Duke Farms Bald Eagle e-book is you can go any chapter quickly by just clicking it on the Contents page.
My new post for Duke Farms' blog also has quick links to timely chapters.
The link is here.
Tom Mitchell was nice enough to pass along a link to his latest poem -- about our favorite place, the Celery Farm.
The link is here.
Speaking of Celery Farm poetry, Tom and everyone else has time to enter the third annual Celery Farm poetry event, brought to you by Fyke's Gabriele Schmitt.
Gaby says:
For 2016, please consider submitting a poem in free verse. Your opportunity for artistic expression - unfettered by set meter, or rhyme scheme, or particular structure. Robert Frost once commented that writing free verse was like "playing tennis without a net."
Will you find this form liberating or more challenging? As there are no "rules," I would only "suggest" that it would be great if your poem(s) were about the Celery Farm or Nature in general.
E-mail Gaby at gaby413 (at) aol.com. And don't forget to read Tom's poem, here.
My latest post for Duke Farms addresses the two most frequently asked questions -- How can you tell the Eagle mom from the eagle dad, and how can you tell which sex the eaglets are?
The link is here.
I only wish I could I.D. all of them. Crab Apple above, and ??? below. I think the whitish one is a Spring Beauty, another a Crab Apple bloom, and the purple dudes....?
1. On Saturday, the Packanack and Weatherowcast Geocachers did a massive cleanup at High Mountain -- their 10th annual at High Mountain. That's dedication.
Several of us Fyke/BCASers were winded by the time we reached the summit on Saturday's hike, only to find the geocachers combing everywhere for litter of all types and sizes.
They brought all the debris down the steep summit in a wheelbarrow.
Other Geocachers cleaned up other portions of the 1,260-acre reserve.
2. Bob Simpson, Chris Connolly and Pete Zuroff (left), of The NY-NJ Trail Conference, recently removed all of the fallen trees that were littering Buttermilk Falls near the Scioto Drive entrance to High Mountain.
The trio at left showed up one afternoon with a chainsaw in tow, and spent two hours cutting and removing some heavy tree limbs and trunks.
The Celery Farm Natural Area and other local preserves would be in sad shape if it weren't for the elbow grease of so many terrific folks.
(Thanks, Geocachers and Trail Conference volunteers!)