By George Jacobi Spring will come again, they tell me. Right now, though, it’s shockingly cold. A once promising summer vanished in a bleak November, buffeting me with gusts of biting wind. The hope that sustained me for that long warm season faded fast. Homeless and harried in my own land, I’ve lost my stability […]
by George Jacobi I gaze across the late summer Fenton at the glittering schist and garnet-infused wall of the Grist Mill. On the little beach below my feet, last night’s raccoon tracks and a lethargic green frog. Not a dramatic scene, this cozy nook has an evergreen grove, a meadow, a pond, and some local
In Pursuit of Perception Read Post »
by George Jacobi Joshua’s Trust doesn’t preserve much meadow acreage (there isn’t much left in CT), so for us, midsummer’s botanical color is enjoyed along sunny open roadsides. And we drive by them, paying scant attention. But summer’s wildflowers sometimes have stories to tell. One of those common colors, according to Peterson’s Field Guide description
Spending August with Anne and Joe Read Post »
When it happened, I couldn’t have been more than 12, but it’s among my most vivid memories of that age. Services had ended in our little stone Episcopalian church and congregants were in the small parking lot, chatting and preparing to drive home. A commotion attracted me and my brother. As a crowd stood around,
Disconcerting Midsummer Detour Read Post »
By George Jacobi On my way to meet co-steward Marian Matthews at Joshua’s Trust Byles Sanctuary I was delayed by my fourth turtle rescue of the week. It was another Painted Turtle, and thankfully didn’t involve any more vehicular drama. One earlier stop was a Spotted Turtle, a creature of DEEP CT special concern. The
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By George Jacobi In Fall of 2022 I watched in awe as two ordinary guys moved a rock that weighed maybe a ton. It took only five minutes with a grip hoist to drag it twenty feet across the Fenton River and lock in place a huge tree trunk that they had already positioned–using physics
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