"One obvious issue with the impoundment is that the water is heated to an extreme degree by exposing a limited flow through to a wide, shallow area."

Notwithstanding the raptor’s fierce yellow eyes and sharp beak, his lonesome expression was enough to make a honkytonk jukebox sing a sad country song.


Winter Storm Hernando — even Google has no explanation for the name — hit during the February school vacation week, Martha's Vineyard’s absolute quietest time of the year.

This hunting season, I was fortunate to be invited to help control the deer population on an association property, the centerpiece of which is a small working farm. I was delighted to discover a small, discreet farm stand in one of the barns where, in the finest Island tradition, visitors record their purchase in a notebook and make their own change from a cash box. This week, before heading to a ground blind I had set up on a deer travel route, I took a few minutes and visit