Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 11 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
Visual Stories
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
A Bad Week for the Dishonest
Better to practice truthfulness and tact
What would the world look like if we didn’t have the ability to lie or misrepresent things? Can you even imagine what it would be like to live with radical […]
ON THE LANDSCAPE
Remembering That Last Bobwhite’s Song
After a meditation, listening differently for the peepers and the bees
When I think back to my childhood here, I remember days spent in the woods and fields and on the marshes and the dune tops. The memories have an enchanted […]
THE ESSENTIALS
Calm Summer Seas Deliver Dayboat Scallop Feasts
Local cooks like them raw and seared, but in my book it’s chowder season
Living at the ocean’s edge means ready access to many rare treats local fishermen bring in. When friends arrive for summer suppers, the ones I like best, because they’re at […]
LITTLE THINGS
An Artist in the Garden
Tessera C. Knowles plants an invitation to slow down and look closer
In Tessera C. Knowles’s painting Saltine at Egg’s Isle, Provincetown’s drag mistress of political satire sits in a chair on the sand behind the Julie Heller Gallery surrounded by an […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Watching for Rebounds in Canada and Spain
Promising reports on Atlantic cod and bluefin tuna reach our shores
Striped bass fishing is heating up in the bay, and Billingsgate Shoals is the place to be. A few days ago there were a lot of bass off Wood End […]
INCIDENTALLY
What Pollen Season Reveals
Pollen season has arrived. With it comes the revelation of one of nature’s wonders: spiderwebs. By design they are almost invisible, but pine pollen now dusts them into full view […]
MORNING FLIGHT
Hawkwatching on Bearberry Hill
A sunny day with southwest winds brings high-flying tourists to Truro
TRURO — In the world of birding, there are a few categories with their own histories and techniques. Seawatching, where a birder peers out at the sea with a scope […]
IRIS ESCAPADES
I’m So Over This Rainbow
The iris shares its name with the Greek goddess of the rainbow, ostensibly for the multitude of colors found across its hundreds of species worldwide. In this neck of the […]
THE NEXT LEVEL
Nauset Honors This Year’s Senior Athletes
Thirteen members of the class have made commitments to compete in college
EASTHAM – “There’s a whole group that are antsy to take your spots,” Nauset Regional High School Principal Patrick Clark told the school’s seniors who are bound for college competition […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Baseball, Lacrosse Boys Advance; Tennis Teams Ousted
A weekly round-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset High boys and girls lacrosse and baseball teams all advanced in their respective Division 3 state tournaments this week. No. 16 ranked baseball defeated No. 17 […]
DAWN DIPS
An Ode to the Morning Cold Plunge
Stripping and dipping and screaming, then a fluffy towel and a cup of coffee
PROVINCETOWN — We don’t quite remember how it started. There was surely a need for physical catharsis after a winter spent too much indoors, and perhaps we had notions of […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 4 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
Love or Loss Under A Sliver of Moon
Venus steps in. Can you feel it?
The new Moon is on June 6, and it carries a message of love — or of loss. In astrology, new Moons represent change, endings, or renewal. This month, it […]
DAWN DIPS
An Ode to the Morning Cold Plunge
Stripping and dipping and screaming, then a fluffy towel and a cup of coffee
PROVINCETOWN — We don’t quite remember how it started. There was surely a need for physical catharsis after a winter spent too much indoors, and perhaps we had notions of […]
