Barn Charm 82

I am pet sitting while my brother's family is on vacation. I've posted this barn before, but had to stop by and feed the animals on my way back home today.





They have ice cream cones filled with alfalfa pellets and cracked corn. Some of the smarter goats have learned to steal the whole cone!

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Playing Possum...

Did you know that there are opossums in New Hampshire? Opossums are the state's only marsupial. They have a long prehensile tail, like a monkey, that aids them in climbing trees. Although they can snarl and open their mouths wide when threatened, they also will feign death and "play possum." Most live out their lives within just a few hundred yards of where they were born. 

 In New Hampshire, opossums are at the very northernmost edge of their range. Opossums were once thought to not be able to survive such a cold climate, but they just keep plodding north on frostbitten feet.

Moose Watching...

This is video from last Sunday when I went out moose watching. I thought is would be appropriate for Earth Day.

 When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
-John Muir

Spring Day...

Sometimes I am filled with a sense of absolutely breathtaking happiness, and in those moments of harmony the world around me begins to look as it really is - balanced and purposeful...

Barn Charm 81

Up in the North Country, the ground is just starting to wake up...snow Sunday on the Presidential Range...might be gone after the heat we had today!

Down south in Hollis, trees are budding...apple blossom time is right around the corner!

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Wild Wild life...

I've been too busy getting new gardens set up to be inside on the computer. I did take some time at sunrise yesterday to go wildlife watching....it was exceptional!

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Walking on floating sphagnum moss...at Ponemah Bog

The Ponemah Bog Sanctuary features a 3-acre pond surrounded by a floating sphagnum mat, all encircled by oak and pitch pine woods. The bog is in a kettle hole created by the retreat of the glaciers.

Classic bog plants such as leatherleaf, bog laurel and tamarack grow here.

You can also find insect-eating plants; pitcher plants, sundews and bladderworts. 

A trail, a boardwalk and a viewing platform allow you to get a close-up view of life in the bog.