At peak magnitude, seek out the goddess of love planet in a clear blue sky in the west-southwest during daylight hours, being extremely careful to keep eyes diverted from the sun.
Did you ever walk the Red Line? It is the Freedom Trail in Boston—a two and a half mile walk through history. But all that history was nearly lost to fire in 1872.
The Winter Solstice ushered in the seasonal rhythm of viewing memorable winter stars and star patterns rise at nightfall, travel the sky all night, and set before sunrise.
If the Milky Way does not appear in your sky, light pollution is blocking your view. The moon and the Summer Triangle are visible through the haze created by excessive, poorly designed outdoor lighting. In North America, 99 percent of the population lives under a light-polluted sky.
Motivated by awareness that our survival depends on each of us caring for landscapes that support a viable, native food web with a diverse population of pollinators, let’s look at a few of the 36 invasive species and 33 likely invasives listed by the Massachusetts Invasive Plant Advisory Group.
Everyone sought to know the stage driver, and all were proud to be known by him. He was a prince of his realm. His realm was his yellow coach, the high seat he occupied, his four horses, and 40 miles of road that was his route.
Of quotidian concern to all regional Earthlings: Eastern Daylight Time falls away next Saturday overnight, November 5 to 6. Set clocks back one hour to awaken on Sunday, November 6 to Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Nearby sounds of rushing, falling water erupted in my consciousness. Frothy water rushed over the dam and into the streambed that had been drought-stricken for months. That sound washed over and through me, loudly. I had been thirsty for months.
Currently, Jupiter is second only to the moon in radiance and traverses the sky all night. The most dramatic times to see the great gas planet are when it is rising and setting.
The earliest known study of human sexuality in the United States began in 1892. It was conducted by a 28-year-old biology undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin. The student was a female; her name was Clelia Duel Mosher.
As darkness gathers on early September evenings, attractions abound in the arc of sky from south to northwest. Scorpius the Scorpion stretches its full figure above the southern skyline, its presence in the evening sky to be savored all-the-more before this quintessential summer constellation disappears soon after the autumnal equinox.
On September 24 at BBG, botanist Ted Elliman will teach Identifying Invasive Plants in the Landscape—Ecological impacts and population trends of many of the invasive trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants that grow in forests, fields, and wetlands in Berkshire County.
During the wee hours before dawn tomorrow morning, Sunday the 7th, through Wednesday the 10th, are optimal for viewing Perseids and Delta Aquariids meteors.
There is an urgency to plant more natives. Just two days ago the monarch butterfly was added to the list of endangered species. Consider replanting an area of lawn to native flowering plants.
