Chipmunck

Horseback Riders - Burrage Wildlife Management Area

Snowy White Egret

Blue Heron

Of Interest: A White Squirrel

Picture from the Patriot Ledger

Wolf Moon

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

Wild Mushrooms

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

Burrage Wildlife Management Area

Picutre speaks for itself.

Double-crested Cormorant

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

Double-crested Cormorant information

Willow Brook Farm Preserve, September 5, 2009

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

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

Bay Circuit Trail Information

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

Furnace Pond, August 24, 2009

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

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

Background Music: Avalon by Benny Goodman

Little Sandy Bottom Pond, August 21, 2009

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

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

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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

Wild Mushrooms

Wild Mushrooms

On The Trail Stetson Pond, August 11, 2009

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

Stetson Pond, August 11, 2009

White Moss

On The Trail Indian Head, August 8, 2009

Background Music: Bye Bye Blackbird by Miles Davis

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

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