Posts by Lois
Keeping The Last Green Valley Clean and Green!
Show your love for The Last Green Valley by organizing an Earth Month or River Cleanup. Gather your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers, and make a difference in your community.…
Read MoreCelebrate Black History Month with a Visit to the Norwich Freedom Trail:
“The next day, Friday morning, Brother Simpson took me down to the steamboat and started me for New York, giving me a letter directed to David Ruggles, of New York.” …
Read MoreFinding Beauty in February
And then the owl called, and I wondered why that sound had ever inspired fear or horror. It was bird song and I thanked God for it, in the night…
Read MoreA Winter Hike in The Last Green Valley
Every season of the year brings an opportunity for an enjoyable day outdoors, whether it is spent exploring forest or field, river or lake. Months and weeks turn purposefully through…
Read MoreOn the Letterboxing Trail in The Last Green Valley
For folks looking to get outdoors with family, friends, or just a solo hike in nature, let me suggest a letterboxing activity as a fun way to explore. If you…
Read MoreEagle Month in The Last Green Valley: The Midwinter Eagle Survey
Every January for the past 11 years I’ve visited the Quinebaug Valley Trout Hatchery to look for eagles. Last Saturday I returned again, this time with seven other eagle searchers.…
Read MoreFebruary Winter Adventures for the Entire Family
Join us to explore The Last Green Valley’s wide-open spaces this winter! Shetucket Ramble, 10 am, Feb. 13, Franklin, CT. Join us on a winter walk along the Shetucket River…
Read MoreFirst Day Exploration of a “Young Forest Habitat” at Mount Misery
Jan. 1 dawned with temperatures in the low 30s, low hanging clouds and the occasional peeks of sunlight. My wife and I have a tradition of a hike or walk…
Read MoreFinding Beauty in January Freshly Fallen Snow
“On this day of bleak cold, the earth seems dead. Yet every northern field and hillside, like a child, has seeds and powers of growth locked within it. From cocoon…
Read MoreA 2021 Monthly Guide to Exploring The Last Green Valley
New Year’s Day is Friday and each of us will welcome 2021 in our own way. I will be happy to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. The challenges this…
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