mossofthewoodsjewelry:

Hey folks! I wanted to let you know that tomorrow, Sunday the 28th, I’m going to have a small update featuring a handful more autumn maple leaf pendants (sugar and Japanese), as well as my last little stragglers of cemetery moss that didn’t quite make it in for last week’s update – 5 in total.

The update will be going live around 12pm EST. Hope to see you there!

Moss of the Woods Store 🍁🍂

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benvironment:

I woke up at 5am this morning and made the mistake of looking out the window, thus seeing the winter wonderland outside. Couldn’t get to sleep after that I was so excited. Seeing as I was awake I thought I may as well head up Creag Bhalg, the hill behind Mar Lodge Estate, in time to see the sunrise. It was soooooo nice to be in the snow again, and it was even nice to be absolutely numbed of all feeling by the subzero windchill on the summit 😉 Gawd it was brutally cold up there today!

Time was I’d get always my first snowy walk of the season in October, but the last five Octobers have been milder than the long term average so I’ve not quite managed it in recent years. Today made a nice return to form 🙂

iseultsdream:

Snowy Owl – taken back on Mar 31, 2014 – 3rd day of a fierce nor’easter

Speaking of birds…and owls specifically…I had spent a bit of time this miserable winter trying to catch sight of one of the snowy owls that had migrated south to the Island from their breeding grounds in the high-arctic tundra. There had been a fairly large incursion of them this year on the Island. Quite a few had been seen over the winter, since unlike most owls, they do hunt by day, but it wasn’t until Mar 31 on a cold and windy third day of a nor’easter when I finally got to see one, taking shelter in the lee of a low dune.

I was driving along the State Beach Rd between Oak Bluffs and Edgartown. The 2 mile stretch of road bisects a narrow piece of land that separates the brackish Sengekontacket Pond from Vineyard Sound. Many birds love this area, as do beach-goers in the summer, but fortunately it was empty of people and traffic this day. Something white on one of the low dunes caught my eye. I thought it was probably plastic, and debated whether to stop, but decided to pull over to check it out. It was only by a stroke of luck, I saw this bird, so well-camouflaged it was in the dune grass.

I had to take these shots through the car window because it was raining and blowing way too hard from the storm to take my camera out in it, and also I didn’t want to spook the bird from what little shelter it had found. I think most of the owls headed back up north within the following week or two.