Beth Emmott

Well, it’s November, Halloween is over and the Phillies have been scary, so whatch gonna do? It rained all week but now its bright and sunny. Maybe this game will turn around too.

We were on location last week in cranberry bogs in NJ and it was just after the yearly harvest.

To harvest the cranberries the bogs are flooded and the cranberries knocked off the plants. As they float in the water they are gathered up and then the water is drained. All around the edge of the bog were missed cranberries, lying on the ground like jewels. They just had to be this month’s header image. (View older header images.)

Here’s to cranberries, some of which we’ll eat this Thanksgiving. And here’s to the ones that got away.

Spent the weekend at my Mom’s in VA Beach. Her garden is the view from her balcony. Between the boats and the birds she comes up with enough intrigue to keep anyone busy. Her favorite birds are a pelican named Braveheart and an egret named Fan Fan.

Ruthie’s Garden

Mom is a painter but for a number of years due to being a caregiver for my Dad and her own health issues she hasn’t been able to work. Lately she has been wanting to get back to it so we helped her dig out her supplies, order more paints and set up a studio space.
Go Mom!

Visited my Mom in VA Beach this weekend. On the way down we stopped in Pocomoke City at the Pocomoke City Nature and Exercise Trail, Cypress Park. It is part of Maryland’s Beach to Bay Indian Trail, a National Recreation Trail, was recognized in 1993 and links a lot of trails and museums along “ . . . patterns established by the American Indians and followed by the first European immigrants.”

Start of the trail.

The short trail, part boardwalk and part path, is entered by passing a small park with large civic bandstand and picnic areas, under the Route 13 overpass and goes through white cedar, cypress and other trees and bog areas.  In need of some repair it was a fun stop on our 5 hour drive down the Delmarva peninsula.

Information on the Cypress Part is available at: 410.957.1334

The lichen in the title heading above is growing on a foundation stone from a house believed to have been built in about 1628 by John Alden in Duxbury, MA. (Previous header images)