A tunnel on the Mass Central Rail Trail provides a surprising sight for both art and nature lovers.















Photographs taken with a bridge camera journaling nature and everyday life in Central Massachusetts.
Category: Autumn
A tunnel on the Mass Central Rail Trail provides a surprising sight for both art and nature lovers.
Milkweed shimmers in the afternoon sun at Wachusett Meadow.
Photographs from a return visit to the Mass Central Rail Trail.
Autumnal lily pads dance within and over the Wildlife Pond.
An autumn stroll on one of the Mass Central Rail Trail’s fifty-one miles of linear park.
The vegetation surrounding the Beaver Wetlands is bursting with gold, orange and crimson this week.
The foliage in Central Massachusetts is becoming more brilliant each day. Swamp maples surrounding the beaver lodge at Wachusett Wildlife Sanctuary are nearly at peak color.
Meanwhile, the juvenile Great Blue Heron featured in the previous post is still roaming the sanctuary. It seems in no rush to migrate, perhaps because of the warm weather this week.
Vibrant ponds and the sight of a Great Blue Heron stepping out across the meadow combined to make a memorable fall hike at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary.
Brookfield Orchards has served generations of Central Massachusetts residents during its one hundred and two year history.
From apples to zinnias: visitors can choose from a wide variety of tasty treats in my garden this week.
Out with the old, and in with the new: a turtle sheds its shell.
I was surrounded by a colorful group today as I opted outside for Black Friday. The Summer birds are long gone, but my Winter feathered friends enlivened the landscape with flashes of red, white, gold and blue.
A bonus: it didn’t take me long to find these birds. They all visited the bird feeders within the space of a half an hour as I sat quietly watching.
The beautiful Mute Swan is featured in Russian ballets and European fairy tales, but it is common in New England, as well.
Pairs of Mute Swans winter at the nearby West Boylston Reservoir. This year, two cygnets (juvenile swans) are also gracing the waters.