When your daughter is a botany professor and she brings beverages to the Yule festivities, you get some interesting (and quite delicious) choices. I offer here a selection of Apple and Gooseberry Birch Sap seltzer, Black Currant and Thoroughwort Birch Sap seltzer, and Mulberry and Nettle Birch Sap seltzer. all quite refreshing.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#Yule
#Solstice
#Botany
#Feast

When your daughter is a botany professor and she brings beverages to the Yule festivities, you get some interesting (and quite delicious) choices. I offer here a selection of Apple and Gooseberry Birch Sap seltzer, Black Currant and Thoroughwort Birch Sap seltzer, and Mulberry and Nettle Birch Sap seltzer. all quite refreshing.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#Yule
#Solstice
#Botany
#Feast

Man, growing up in Boston it was always so frustrating to learn that everyone who isn't from here imagines that every single business in New England, nomatter how new, looks like it is straight out of the American Revolutionary period, yet--

--oh wait, yeah ok, I guess I see what you mean

#Boston #NewEngland

Man, growing up in Boston it was always so frustrating to learn that everyone who isn't from here imagines that every single business in New England, nomatter how new, looks like it is straight out of the American Revolutionary period, yet--

--oh wait, yeah ok, I guess I see what you mean

#Boston #NewEngland

With the gardening season done and all the tools cleaned and tucked away, BeetBear is leaving me on my own to get all the apple trees pruned over the winter. He's napping by the fire with instructions to wake him up for the Wassailing later on.
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#Apples
#Orchard
#NewEngland

With the gardening season done and all the tools cleaned and tucked away, BeetBear is leaving me on my own to get all the apple trees pruned over the winter. He's napping by the fire with instructions to wake him up for the Wassailing later on.
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#Apples
#Orchard
#NewEngland

Vermont Pumpkins by Lance King

🎃 https://flic.kr/p/2rzWF4u

#photography #halloween #flickr #pumkins #spookyseason #vermont #cananda #lanceking #photo #photography #fujifilmxt5 #newengland

"A Rhode Island man involved with a New England-based neo-Nazi group that protests 'drag queen story hours' and claims they promote pedophilia has pleaded no contest to possessing child pornography.

"Stephen Farrea, 35, who has appeared at events for the Nationalist Social Club-131 and was arrested in 2022 while spreading white nationalist leaflets in East Providence, is now required to register as a sex offender."

(paywall: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/01/metro/ri-nazi-nsc-131-child-porn/)

#RhodeIsland #newengland #antifascism #neonazi

"A Rhode Island man involved with a New England-based neo-Nazi group that protests 'drag queen story hours' and claims they promote pedophilia has pleaded no contest to possessing child pornography.

"Stephen Farrea, 35, who has appeared at events for the Nationalist Social Club-131 and was arrested in 2022 while spreading white nationalist leaflets in East Providence, is now required to register as a sex offender."

(paywall: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/01/metro/ri-nazi-nsc-131-child-porn/)

#RhodeIsland #newengland #antifascism #neonazi

It's been a while coming, but we are now starting to harvest carrots that we planted in April.This variety is "MoonRaker" and they average about 4 or 5 inches in length (100-110 mm). All planted in a pot ~ 18 inches/ 450mm in diameter and 16 inches/ 400mm deep. It took A LOT of watering to keep them happy during the summer heat, but we now will be able to harvest carrots as needed almost to December. 😀
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#carrots
@gardening
@allotments

It's been a while coming, but we are now starting to harvest carrots that we planted in April.This variety is "MoonRaker" and they average about 4 or 5 inches in length (100-110 mm). All planted in a pot ~ 18 inches/ 450mm in diameter and 16 inches/ 400mm deep. It took A LOT of watering to keep them happy during the summer heat, but we now will be able to harvest carrots as needed almost to December. 😀
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#carrots
@gardening
@allotments

Well most of the garden is done for the year, but the tomatoes, peppers and eggplant are still going strong. This was the very last of the sunburst squash, as the plants are now in the compost, hopefully cooking out all the pests remaining on the leaves and in the stems. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening
@allotments

Well most of the garden is done for the year, but the tomatoes, peppers and eggplant are still going strong. This was the very last of the sunburst squash, as the plants are now in the compost, hopefully cooking out all the pests remaining on the leaves and in the stems. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening
@allotments

Squash cleanup: BeetBear goes on ahead to rescue any remaining squashes for sharing out. He also checks the few blossoms that are left to make sure any dozing bees are encouraged to move over to the eggplant flowers so Dad doesn't ruin their day with the chopper. We're about 75% done now so one more push tomorrow will finish it up. Just tomatoes, peppers and eggplant left producing now. Season has flown by! 😀
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@span gardening
@span allotments

Squash cleanup: BeetBear goes on ahead to rescue any remaining squashes for sharing out. He also checks the few blossoms that are left to make sure any dozing bees are encouraged to move over to the eggplant flowers so Dad doesn't ruin their day with the chopper. We're about 75% done now so one more push tomorrow will finish it up. Just tomatoes, peppers and eggplant left producing now. Season has flown by! 😀
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@span gardening
@span allotments

The working group was created as part of a towing reform law passed in response to a ProPublica and Connecticut Mirror investigation into towing practices in the state.

#news #law #government #newengland

https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-dmv-towing-law-reforms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=9-09

Things are winding down now, but BeetBear still found veg. to share with the neighbors today. It made our day when a young lady and her grandma stopped by with a thank-you note for us. It's very dry again. We have had no rain since a light shower on 20-Aug. Tomatoes are heavily mulched, so they're ok. Peppers, eggplant and yellow squash seem to be holding up, too.Will probably start to "deconstruct" the corn patch tomorrow. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#BeetBear
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening

Things are winding down now, but BeetBear still found veg. to share with the neighbors today. It made our day when a young lady and her grandma stopped by with a thank-you note for us. It's very dry again. We have had no rain since a light shower on 20-Aug. Tomatoes are heavily mulched, so they're ok. Peppers, eggplant and yellow squash seem to be holding up, too.Will probably start to "deconstruct" the corn patch tomorrow. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#BeetBear
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening

#canoeing#sunset #reflections#NewEngland#photography#nature#weekend#landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #reflection #boat #boating #canoe#GetOutside#water

#canoeing#sunset #reflections#NewEngland#photography#nature#weekend#landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #reflection #boat #boating #canoe#GetOutside#water