An auspicious enough day on which to add something to my journal site. This always has represented a signal turning toward spring (following Groundhog’s Day and all the closer); and of course the coming turtle season. I feel the customary blend , perhaps confusion, of anticipation mingled with apprehension, angst, as the time for the […]

17 December 2009. On a wind-blasted arctic day I enter a blog on the journal site I am eager to develop, with a posting from my notebook of my last turtle sighting of 2009. 8 November 2009, 2PM: to alder thickets along west bank of the west wood turtle brook. It was 65.5 degrees when […]