What do you do when you see a bird that looks like no bird you’ve seen before — not even in photos or illustrations or anywhere? A few days after […]
Visual Stories
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Jan. 28 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
TURNAROUNDS
The Fishermen Girls Outstrip Their Goal
Provincetown defeats Dennis-Yarmouth 31-25 with teamwork
PROVINCETOWN — Before the Provincetown IB Schools girls basketball team’s 31-25 triumph in a home match on Jan. 23 against the Dennis-Yarmouth Dolphins, the players enacted four rituals that set […]
NATURAL SELECTION
Brambling On
The Rubus genus of blackberries is so enormous and complex — there are nearly 30 species found in New England alone and they love to hybridize — that telling them […]
MEET THE MAKER
Steve Smith Throws Away the Level and the Square
To be a boatbuilder is to be part fine-tuner, part heavy lifter, part dreamer
Steve Smith disappears through the wicket gate — the smaller, person-size door built into one of the two much larger doors of his backyard barn. Then the large door swings […]
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
In Aquarius and Imagining a Brighter Future
Now’s the time to take opportunities as they come
This week, keep your mind focused on the goals you’re working toward. The Sun in Aquarius trines Jupiter in Gemini this week; it is finally stationing direct after a long […]
FARMING ON PAPER
Gardeners Put In Their Orders for 2025 Season
In January, some growers dream in spreadsheets and catalogs — others just dream
For lazy gardeners like me, January is a quiet time. The garlic is tucked in for its winter nap, and a few hours of mulching work in the fall means […]
FROM THE LARDER
Transported by Tagine
Putting memories of Morocco’s warmth to simmer on the stove
It’s so cold that Eartha Kitt has stopped going outside entirely. She’s our cat, and she’s going soft in her old age. She stands and peers out the sidelight, but […]
MEET THE MAKER
Steve Smith Throws Away the Level and the Square
To be a boatbuilder is to be part fine-tuner, part heavy lifter, part dreamer
Steve Smith disappears through the wicket gate — the smaller, person-size door built into one of the two much larger doors of his backyard barn. Then the large door swings […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Jan. 21 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
TO THE MAT
A Seaworthy Boat for Riding the Waves Ahead
Building strength and courage with Paripurna Navasana
In setting my intentions for the new year, I have been anticipating the need for strength, endurance, and courage. One vision that keeps coming to mind is the need to […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Nauset Boys Basketballers Fall to Martha’s Vineyard, 56-40
Second-half comeback can’t erase a slow start
EASTHAM — When the Nauset Regional High School boys basketball team faced the Martha’s Vineyard High team in a season-opening game on the road, the Warriors came away with a […]
NATURAL SELECTION
Old Lace, Hold the Arsenic
The winter remains of Queen Anne’s lace, Daucus carota, add dark structure to the meadow at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, the once-delicate umbels dried and contracted into shapes that, […]
MORNING FLIGHT
How Birds Stay Warm
There’s fluffing up, cuddling, and countercurrent exchange; then, too, some birds seem to like the cold
Just about every conversation I’ve had over the last week has begun with some exchange of descriptors of this recent cold snap: it’s been chilly, windy, miserable. But while we […]
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
Look to Your Inner Circle
Invest in the bonds that hold friendships together
Now is a good time to strengthen your inner circle and the bonds that keep you together. With the Sun in Aquarius forming a trine with Jupiter in Gemini, this […]
