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small reedgrass in bloom

Lantana Land Grab

Calf Island, late September

E end Zack's Cliffs

southern pine beetle outbreak

common idia caterpillars

featherfoil in fruit

whitetail doe

16.2 mm male crane fly

S bank Pine Tree Brook in late winter

Nashaquitsa Cliffs in fog

29 cm bluefin tuna skull

lobster boats at Holyoke Wharf

Pine Tree Brook floods Harland St

bulldozed paper mill

Boston Harbor 6/24/21

dying green ashes

growing pains, Pine Hill Cemetery

Demolition starts at derelict paper mill

sharpleaf cancerwort

Verizon linemen replacing phone pole

backyard arborists

5.8 cm male red-spotted newt

Preliminary dig-up, former Blue Hills Reservation parkland

Bear Dens

Rainsford Island 10/20/19

fifty-minute emergence, male lancet clubtail

Eastbound Interstate 84

little bluestem in bloom

Crossing Vineyard Sound

woodland oatgrass in fruit

retreating mallards

emerald skins

Asiatic sweetleaf in bloom

Land clearing at former Town Farm

black oaks killed by Winter Storm Riley

reddening lepiota

migrating male marbled salamanders

fishing class at Ponk

buttonbush in bloom

bristly sarsaparilla in fruit

Ten-acre grass fire

corn plant

Japanese stewartia in fruit

2nd graders at Glover School

Neponset Estuary paddle 10/7/16

Sarah and Craig

Back River paddle

jointed goatgrass in bloom

5.5 mm female anthomyiid

7.9 mm female introduced muscid

small shelly fauna, Hoppin Hill Reservoir

Weymouth Formation

Match Community Day School

10.5 mm female anthomyiid

late-blooming english holly

Acrotaphus wiltii

rose of sharon in bloom

Dad

25 mm female ichneumon

14.5 mm brown marmorated stinkbug

'English Roseum' rhododendron

8.4 mm female cuckoo bee

NEIGC field trip, Quincy, MA 10/12/14

canary reedgrass inverts

red buckeye in fruit

lake sedge

Tileston and Hollingsworth Dam

March inverts, Hillside Pond

riffle fauna, Chestnut Run

eastern forktail naiads

winter twigs, swamp sweetbells

Melanotus click beetles

spice cabinet ecosystem

male water sowbug

winter twigs, fox grape

winter twigs, poison sumac

winter twigs, big-seeded hawthorn

winter twigs, Morrow's honeysuckle

winter twigs, swamp azalea

winter twigs, willow-leaved cotoneaster

snow this AM

winter twigs, false indigo

oats in fruit

adventive juvenile chinese chestnut

fall color, laceleaf maple

cellar holes, Camp Sayre

visit from sewer cam

male northern paper wasp

North Bank Bridge

clamming at Eel Pond

Grey Barn Farm

ESCI field trip to Lovell's Island

how to eat lobster

new bathhouse, Houghton's Pond

largemouth bass skeleton

Boston Community Choir

tulip tree in bloom

japanese primrose in bloom

female spring fishfly

dissected blue marsh violet

recent work, Ponkapoag Golf Course

female russian tortoise

mating march flies

25-acre grass fire, Fowl Meadow

young samaras, silver maple

winter twigs, swamp white oak

winter twigs, cucumber tree

female rustic wolf spider

winter twigs, pin oak

frost withers saucer magnolias

rhyolite quarry, Mattapan

winter twigs, princess tree

winter twigs, tulip tree

winter twigs, sycamore

grass fire, Neponset Estuary

white oak stem galls

winter twigs, white oak

winter twigs, black oak

gouty oak galls

winter twigs, red oak

recent work, Ponkpoag Golf Course

winter twigs, boxelder

fruiting winter twigs, smooth sumac

winter twigs, threadleaf sawara cypress

spotted joe pye weed in fruit

pitch pine cone

ada çayi

tansy in fruit

winter twigs, rusty willow

winter twigs, meadow willow

christmas lights, Carberry Lane

barnyard grass in fruit

japanese honeysuckle in fruit

creepy callers

crossing Vineyard Sound 9/17/11

Stonewall Point

Wequobsque Cliffs

damaged riprap

Menemsha Hills

ESCI field trip to Lovell's Island

salt marsh above Granite Avenue

swamp dock in fruit

fanwort in bloom

indian tobacco in bloom

female house spider

red oak seedling

Jardin de la Gare-de-Charonne

Pere Lachaise

Panthéon

Monument aux Girondins

downy hawthorn in bloom

Carolina silverbell in bloom

pond cleaning, Trailside Museum

aging flowers, sugar maple

budding rhizomes, lily of the valley

breaking buds, withe-rod

winter twigs, bitternut hickory

ripening pollen cones, cultivated yew

snowdrops in bloom

shrubby thornless honey locust

breaking buds, bigtooth aspen

breaking buds, russian elm

winter twigs, beech

former paper mill

winter twigs, yellow birch

winter twigs, ailing hemlock

winter twigs, bittersweet nightshade

male winter twigs, quaking aspen

winter twigs, siberian elm

snowy night, Mattapan Square

winter twigs, callery pear

winter twigs, blue spruce

male winter twigs, red maple

winter twigs, japanese zelkova

winter twigs, virginia creeper

winter twigs, sugar maple

winter twigs, norway spruce

winter twigs, balsam fir

winter twigs, tupelo

fruiting spike, narrowleaf plantain

japanese wisteria in fruit

great water dock in fruit

late-blooming ragweed

fall color at Willett Pond

jerusalem artichoke

slippery jill

red chokeberry in fruit

sloop salvaged, Vineyard Haven

mobile poultry processing unit

grapeleaf anemone

Othello on Boston Common

water purslane

vacancies, Milton Town Farm

at the dermatologist

deptford pink in fruit

new plantings, Blue Hills Reservoir

cleistogamous flowers, bracted plantain

former Blue Hills Reservoir

pair common house spiders

Blue Hill Avenue bridge, Neponset River

bulbous buttercup

twin-spotted spiketail exuviae

tussock sedge in bloom

skunk cabbage sprout

Crown Colony Office Park

honey locust in bud

western catalpa, late winter

dam failure in Canton

Ellis Pond Dam

battered seawall, Oak Bluffs

winter twigs, horse chestnut

winter twigs, norway maple

winter twigs, common buckthorn

fruits in winter, meadowsweet

gray birch saplings

beaver skull

jack pine

ice fishing derby

HP print cartridges

atrium plants

Hull volcanics

bladder wrack

crab scramble

juvenile sculpin

yellow nutsedge

early snowfall, Union, CT

horsechestnut

shagbark hickory nuts

downy goldenrod

honey mushrooms

creamy ladies' tresses

european fire ants and woolly alder aphids

canoeing Neponset Estuary

60-acre gravel pit, Oak Bluffs

bouncing bet

pitseed goosefoot

little ladies' tresses

seabeach orache

silk tree

rough boneset

retreating dune, Wilfrid's Pond

old man of the woods

Martha's Vineyard flyover

horseweed

hedge bindweed

catnip

weeping lovegrass

tanks go under at Blue Hills Reservoir 8/2/09

soil and vegetation plots, Course One, Ponkapoag golf course

black swallowwort

curly dock

blunt broom sedge

chinese smartweed

ribbonleaf pondweed

water pepper

jointed rush

milkweed in bloom

dusk on Buck Hill

awlfruit sedge

pale sedge

black raspberry

wood bluegrass

121 Sullivan 6/26/09

Flat-topped Agaricus

pointed broom sedge

rough bluegrass

kentucky bluegrass

Annual Meeting, Neponset River Watershed Association

golden ragwort in bloom

swamp dock in bloom

common woodrush in fruit

northern dewberry in bloom

male greenbrier in bloom

hackberry in bloom

chinese crab in bloom

annual bluegrass

bulbous bluegrass

greenbrier seeds from old scat

Bradley Estate, Canton 4/19/09

male cottonwood in bloom

budding mayumi

female boxelder in bloom

spotted salamander

winter twigs, white ash

illustrations from Forbush and Fernald, The Gypsy Moth (Boston, 1896)

amur corktree 3/25/09

winter twigs, green ash

winter twigs, arrowwood

winter twigs, white mulberry

winter twigs, hackberry

low tide at Billings Creek 3/15/09

sunken fairways, Ponkapoag

winter twigs, black walnut

deer eaten in vacant lot

winter twigs, poison ivy

winter twigs, littleleaf linden

sterile winter twigs, american elm

split pods, black locust

winter twigs, black cherry

winter twigs, black locust

Ponkapoag Dam rehab

winter twigs, chinese crab

Swingle's Quarry

winter twigs, sassafras

winter twigs, black birch

wintercreeper or climbing euonymus

West Roxbury quarry

fortification at Baker Dam

Scene from Summit House Hill

Mount Clef Ridge 12/23/08

aleppo pine

coastal prickly pear

mexican fan palm

planted willow oak

adventive pin oak

Big Sycamore Canyon 12/26/08

bluejoint

male cultivated yew

fruiting red cedar 12/15/08

burning bush 12/7/08

Tileston and Hollingsworth Dam, Neponset River

juvenile shagbark hickory 11/26/08

black jelly oyster 11/26/08

douglas fir 11/26/08

pignut hickory 11/23/08

brined olive pits

dried globe amaranth

earthy powdercap

male winter moths

late fall oyster

palomino cup

velvet foot

northern shorthusk

election day

hop sedge

citron amanita

saltwort

flowering dogwood

hairy bush clover

nodding beggarticks

fruiting maleberry

purpletop tridens

winged pigweed

common sandbur

Em's farm

Agardh's red weed

saltmarsh hemp

american shieldback

chinese mantis

giant millipede

silvery-violet cort

wingstem

eulalia

coastal plain flat-topped goldenrod

destroying angel

himalayan blackberry

stormy AM, Edgartown Harbor

Norton Point

marsh becoming beach

saltwater cordgrass

swamp milkweed

obedience

dusty miller

virginia creeper

pointed broom sedge

silvery or hay sedge

bush honeysuckle

hairy willow herb

common plantain

creeping spike sedge

wild licorice

broad-leaved woodland sedge

variable panic grass

striped wintergreen

pignut hickory 7/11/08

hop hornbeam

capitate sedge

tapered panic grass

forked chickweed

black oatgrass

quince rust on shadbush

ribbed sedge

European green crab

waxy meadow rue

clasping bellwort

reflexed sedge

southern catalpa in bloom

field garlic

yellow salsify

bladder campion

glaucous hawkweed

black medick

Morrison's spurrey

mouse-ear hawkweed

cypress spurge

Em graduates

hybrid bluebells

canada geese

lily of the valley

canada mayflower

jack in the pulpit

female sassafras

common periwinkle

japanese flowering quince

spicebush in bloom

red maple in bloom

European larch in bloom

flat red bark beetle

beaked hazel

broom crowberry

skunk cabbage

eastern floater

Chinese mystery snail

Granite Rail Quarry

Braintree Split

Fuller's Quarry

Sunday at Ponkapoag

parking lot meringue

birch conk

english ivy

sundown at Prowse Farm

Blue Hill granite porphyry

herb robert

tanks arrive, Blue Hills Reservoir

Granite Links, early winter

dolomite marble, Stockbridge Formation

blue toadflax

canadian frostweed

East Asian spindletree

nannyberry

snapper hatchlings

Washington hawthorn

Lovell's Island

Greene's rush

woolgrass

bristly sedge

nodding beggarticks

fallen cones, european larch

northern long sedge

shallow sedge

arrow arum

northern snailseed pondweed

common arrowhead

Houghton's Pond 8/25/07

hemlock varnish shelf

Edgartown

bayonet rush

woodland oatgrass

concealed sedge

spreading sedge

slender wood sedge

fire scar on Buck Hill

tussock sedge

yellow-fruited fox sedge

paddle to Spectacle Island

Quarry Hills at dusk

winterberry

reed canary grass

ragged robin in fruit

large whorled pogonia

doublefile viburnum

Anne Marie (Hulick) Palmer

timber rattlers

deer tick bite

Arnold Arboretum 4/29/07

Milton High Jazz Night 4/24/07

flood tide at Milton Landing 4/16/07

Blue Hills Reservoir 4/8/07

smooth alder in bloom

low tide, head of Neponset Estuary

Victorian finery

winter twigs, atlantic white cedar

old leachate plume, Quincy

Blue Hills Ski Area 2/4/07

pignut hickory 1/24/07

nightfall on Blue Hill

Still River floodplain

Public hearing, Energy and Environment transition team, Deval Patrick administration

wineberry

Candlewood Lake

Environmental Collaborative meeting

sterile submersed cyperid

Blue Hills Reservoir colors up

meeting at EOEA

Houghton's Pond Trail Race

seining at Buckmaster Pond

snailseed pondweed

bright green spike rush

Gay Head cliffs from below

some Aquinnah plants

coastal erosion exposes shell middens

Misty AM, Aquinnah

New Bedford to Vineyard Sound

great burdock

Blue Hills Reservoir greens up

Squaw Rock strata

Winter Wheat

Barnyard Grass

116 ft white pine