Winter of 2020

Fells Reservation, Massachusetts

Cloaked in browns...
 ... rustling orchestra on the ground...
 ... and on the rocks,  lively mosses and flowery lichens seem to be enjoying this snowless winter...

Embraced

Fells Reservation, Massachusetts

This winter, so far, has been almost snowless, unlike winters I truly love...
... brings me five years back to the winter of 2015, the snowiest Cambridge on record... 

... and snowiest memories...

Nature does not take sides

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

I hear the cracks on partially frozen pond... and all those melting glaciers...
 ... polar bears are losing their only home
     while
     geese enjoy this piece of melted world...

   Nature does not take sides...

Back in White

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Only a few days ago I walked on the sand along barefoot enthusiasts...
... and today...
... steps break the silence of snowy surface...
... birds are looking for seeds...

Feels Like Spring

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Massachusetts

... on this warm winter day...

How indispensable our one or two flocks of geese in spring and autumn! What would be a spring in which that sound was not heard? Coming to unlock the fetters of northern rivers. Those annual steamers of the air.

HENRY D. THOREAU, Journals, April 15, 1852

Intermission

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Massachusetts

On the 11th of January: Winter interrupted by record warmth in Northeast.
   ... the temp has climbed above +20°C (68°F) for just the second time in recorded history...
 
   ... oddly out of place... the time to visit the Ocean...