Rach’s Bike:

Mushrooms

2011-09-25T04:30:00.000-07:00

Little Sulphur Butterfly

2011-09-25T03:56:00.000-07:00

Woolly Bear Caterpillar

2011-09-04T06:02:00.000-07:00

Juvenile Northern Bobwhite in song

2011-08-21T08:03:00.000-07:00

Juvenile Bobwhite

2011-08-21T07:51:00.000-07:00

Pembroke, Mass, Little Sandy woodland

Mushrooms

2011-08-20T16:25:00.000-07:00

Great Blue Heron

2011-08-20T06:10:00.000-07:00

Monarch Butterfly

2011-07-24T05:03:00.000-07:00

Red Winged Blackbird

2011-07-16T09:28:00.000-07:00

Double-crested Cormorant

2011-07-16T07:50:00.000-07:00

2011-06-27T17:38:00.000-07:00

Red Winged Blackbird

2011-06-15T06:21:00.000-07:00

White Egret

2011-06-15T06:17:00.000-07:00

Canadian Geese: Mama and Papa Goose with Their Little Ones

2011-06-10T10:09:00.000-07:00

Glossy Ibis

2011-06-07T06:10:00.000-07:00

Snapping Turtle - Burrage Wildlife Management Area

2011-06-07T06:04:00.000-07:00

Mallard Duck

2011-06-06T07:27:00.000-07:00

White Tail Deer-Tub's Meadow

2011-06-06T07:23:00.000-07:00

White Tail Deer-Tub's Meadow

2011-06-06T07:22:00.000-07:00

Snapping Turtle - Tub's Meadow

2011-06-06T07:19:00.000-07:00

Mallard Ducks

2011-05-27T17:55:00.000-07:00

Baby Sun Turtle

2011-05-26T18:00:00.000-07:00

Baby Sun Turtle, no longer than 3" head to tail

Killdeer

2011-05-25T18:49:00.000-07:00

Tree Swallows

2011-05-23T05:40:00.000-07:00

Kingfisher

2011-02-25T06:49:00.000-08:00

Egret

2011-02-25T06:46:00.000-08:00

Summer 2010

2010-10-17T14:49:00.000-07:00

Double-crested Cormorant

2010-10-03T06:51:00.000-07:00

Common Sandpiper

2010-09-25T17:50:00.000-07:00

For a larger image click on the picture

Mushrooms

2010-09-19T06:56:00.000-07:00

Mushrooms

2010-09-05T11:04:00.000-07:00

Least Skipper

2010-09-05T08:53:00.000-07:00

White Egret

2010-09-05T08:50:00.000-07:00

Double-crested Cormorant

2010-09-05T08:44:00.000-07:00

Sandpiper

2010-08-31T12:07:00.000-07:00

Not Identified

2010-08-28T13:52:00.000-07:00

Butterflies

2010-08-28T09:51:00.000-07:00

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Pearl Crescent

Praying Mantis

2010-08-23T13:41:00.000-07:00

Barn Spider

2010-08-08T18:13:00.000-07:00

Dragonfly

2010-08-08T07:33:00.000-07:00

Chickadee

2010-07-31T07:28:00.000-07:00

Dragonfly and Northern Bluet Damselfly

2010-07-24T17:23:00.000-07:00

Northern Bluet Damselfly

Snowy White Egret

2010-07-17T07:51:00.000-07:00

Two-spotted Skimmer

2010-07-11T07:48:00.000-07:00

Four-spotted Skimmer

2010-07-09T07:44:00.000-07:00

Robin Chicks Ready to Fly

2010-07-05T09:24:00.000-07:00

Six-spotted Skimmer

2010-07-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

Juvenile Canadian Goose

2010-06-29T07:26:00.000-07:00

Robin Chicks

2010-06-28T08:41:00.000-07:00

Blue Jay

2010-06-27T07:13:00.000-07:00

Tubb's Meadow: White Tail Deer

2010-06-26T07:50:00.000-07:00

White Egret

2010-06-22T12:11:00.000-07:00

Kingbird

2010-06-22T12:09:00.000-07:00

Eight-spotted Skimmer

2010-06-20T08:08:00.000-07:00

Juvenile Cottontail Rabbit

2010-06-16T18:03:00.000-07:00

Goldfinch

2010-06-13T18:11:00.000-07:00

Snowy White Egret

2010-06-13T11:47:00.000-07:00

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Damselfly

2010-05-30T07:58:00.000-07:00

The Great Outdoors - Summer 2010

2010-05-29T17:58:00.000-07:00

Cottontail Rabbit

2010-05-23T12:02:00.000-07:00

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Chipping Sparrow

2010-05-23T12:00:00.000-07:00

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Grey Squirrel

2010-05-23T11:58:00.000-07:00

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Sun Turtles

2010-05-23T11:53:00.000-07:00

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Raccoon

2010-05-23T11:34:00.000-07:00

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Killdeer

2010-05-23T11:21:00.000-07:00

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Tree Swallow

2010-05-23T10:57:00.000-07:00

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Red Winged Blackbird

2010-05-23T10:42:00.000-07:00

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Great Blue Heron

2010-05-23T09:37:00.000-07:00

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Canadian Geese and their gosling

2010-05-22T18:08:00.000-07:00

Black Water Snake

2010-05-22T17:58:00.000-07:00

Chipmunck

2010-05-09T10:32:00.000-07:00

Horseback Riders - Burrage Wildlife Management Area

2010-04-23T16:14:00.000-07:00

Snowy White Egret

2010-04-23T15:46:00.000-07:00

Blue Heron

2010-04-23T15:38:00.000-07:00

Of Interest: A White Squirrel

2010-04-18T17:38:00.000-07:00

Picture from the Patriot Ledger

Wolf Moon

2010-02-01T15:12:00.000-08:00

I took this image on Friday, January 29, 2010, at about 10:30 P.M.

Wolf Moon information:

Native Americans call the first Full moon of the year as wolf moon. It is generally unusually brighter and bigger. According to the astronomers, the wolf moon is almost 30% brighter as well as 14% wider than regular full moons. This happens because the moon revolves round the Earth in an elliptical orbit and at the time of the wolf moon it comes closer to Earth than usual. According to the Native American folklore, hungry wolves howl in chilly wintry nights glaring at the full moon.

More at Wolf Moon 2010 Gets Star Gazers Excited

Muskrat Mound

2009-09-28T16:11:00.000-07:00

Wild Mushrooms

2009-09-28T15:00:00.000-07:00

Beautiful formation of mushrooms. The base of the tree is about 18 to 24" across, so this is quite a large formation.

Mud Wasp Nest

2009-09-22T17:35:00.000-07:00

Burrage Wildlife Management Area

2009-09-20T18:57:00.000-07:00

Picutre speaks for itself.

Double-crested Cormorant

2009-09-16T07:50:00.000-07:00

At the last throes of summer this Cormorant is ready to head south.

Double-crested Cormorant information

Willow Brook Farm Preserve, September 5, 2009

2009-09-05T21:47:00.000-07:00

Willow Brook Farm picture of the sign is from their webpage

Background music: Deception by Miles Davis

Read here for more details: Willow Brook Farm Preserve

Bay Circuit Trail at Tubb's Meadow, August 26, 2009

2009-08-26T19:42:00.000-07:00

Background Music: Antonio Lauro (1917- 1986): Seis por derecho by David Russell on Classical Guitar

Map of the Bay Circuit Trail Network from Duxbury and Kingston on the South Shore to Newburyport and Ipswich on the North Shore.

Bay Circuit Trail, August 25, 2009

2009-08-25T20:08:00.000-07:00

Bay Circuit Trail Information

Background Music: Jorge Morel: Romance Criollo by David Russell
on Classical Guitar

Furnace Pond, August 24, 2009

2009-08-24T17:58:00.000-07:00

Furnace Pond is a 107-acre (0.43 km2) pond in Pembroke, Massachusetts. The pond is located southeast of Oldham Pond which is connected to Furnace Pond by an inlet, and east of Great Sandy Bottom Pond.The maximum depth is nine feet. The pond is a Class A Public Water Source for the Brockton Water Commission. Water from this pond is diverted into Silver Lake through Tubbs Meadow Brook, the pond's outflow, whenever there is a water shortage there. The Furnace Pond Neighborhood Association maintains a semi-public beach along the pond.

Furnace Pond, August 24, 2009

2009-08-24T17:54:00.000-07:00

Little Sandy, Big Sandy Bay Circuit Trail, August 23, 2009

2009-08-24T14:28:00.000-07:00

Background Music: Avalon by Benny Goodman

Little Sandy Bottom Pond, August 21, 2009

2009-08-21T18:36:00.000-07:00

Background Music: Sweet Georgia Brown by Benny Goodman

Little Sandy Bottom Pond is a 54-acre (220,000 m2) pond in Pembroke, Massachusetts, in the Bryantville section of town. The pond is a Class A tributary to Great Sandy Bottom Pond, a public water supply for the Abington/Rockland Joint Water Works.

Silver Lake Sanctuary, and Veteran's Commemorative Pembroke Town Forest, August 19, 2009

2009-08-20T15:56:00.000-07:00

BACKGROUNG MUSIC: THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE by Frankie Newton and Orchestra

Silver Lake is a 640-acre (2.6 km2) lake in Pembroke, Kingston, and Plympton, Massachusetts, south of Route 27 and east of Route 36. The Pembroke/Plympton town line is entirely within the lake, and a portion of the western shoreline of the lake is the town line with Halifax. The lake is the principal water supply for the City of Brockton, whose water treatment plant is on Route 36 in Halifax. The inflow of the pond is Tubbs Meadow Brook, and the pond is the headwaters of the Jones River. Occasionally water is diverted into Silver Lake from Monponsett Pond in Halifax and Furnace Pond in Pembroke (through Tubbs Meadow Brook) whenever there is a water shortage. Access to the pond is through Silver Lake Sanctuary, a 92 acre property where one can walk, hike and fish, which is located at the end of Barses Lane, off Route 27 in Kingston.

Plymouth County Hospital

2009-08-18T15:49:00.000-07:00

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

As a teenage I worked in the kitchen of this hospital.

The hospial was built in 1923 and closed in 1992, it was originally named the Hanson Tuberculosis Hospital, later converted to a general hospital (Plymouth County Hospital). The medical center then changed purpose once again to become a rehabilitation and pulmonary care facility and was renamed Cranberry Specialty Hospital in 1982. Due to lack of inpatients it was closed in 1992. In April 2004, a 4-alarm fire erupted in the kitchen area, damaging the rear section of the building, and has since been subject to much vandalism

Hanson Tuberculosis Hospital was built to care for people in the Plymouth County with tuberculosis. Unlike many of the other sanitariums built in Massachusetts, this one was built in a Spanish style exterior. With a red tile roof and concrete walls. As years went on and tuberculosis was cured the patients changed and so did the name, to Plymouth County Hospital, then again to Cranberry Specialty Hospital before it closed its door in 1992.

Various Inside and Outside Images by others 1

Various Inside and Outside Images by others 2

Various Inside and Outside Images by others 3

Various Inside and Outside Images by others 4

Nathaniel Thomas Mill

2009-08-18T14:16:00.000-07:00

Wild Mushrooms

2009-08-17T19:12:00.000-07:00

Wild Mushrooms

2009-08-17T19:10:00.000-07:00

On The Trail Stetson Pond, August 11, 2009

2009-08-11T21:07:00.000-07:00

Background Music: Guido Santorsola
Choro No. 1 for classical guitar
Performed by David Russell

Stetson Pond, August 11, 2009

2009-08-11T20:50:00.000-07:00

White Moss

On The Trail Indian Head, August 8, 2009

2009-08-08T20:35:00.000-07:00

Background Music: Bye Bye Blackbird by Miles Davis

On the trail at Tubb's Meadow, August 3 2009

2009-08-03T15:05:00.001-07:00

In My Travels - Moss and Mushrooms, July 31, 2009

2009-08-02T18:16:00.000-07:00

Wampatuck, July 27, 2009

2009-07-28T10:13:00.000-07:00

Video

Background Music: Move by Miles Davis
From the album: Birth of the Cool

Slideshow
Background Music: Jeru by Miles Davis
From the album: Birth of the Cool

July 25, 2009 West Burrage Slides and Video

2009-07-25T18:25:00.000-07:00

Western Burrage Wildlife Management Area