by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 15, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 18, 2014 A stone, little seen by humans, marks where North Reading, North Andover, and Middleton meet. Six feet high, roughly triangular in cross section, it reminds us of an obelisk sculpted by Mother Nature and later found and used by man. On...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 11, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 14, 2014 ( It is white water lily time again. The following Water Closet piece was published in the Tri-Town Transcript on July 4, 2008. Visit Stearns Pond in Harold Parker State Forest to see a mile long watery field of these beauties or almost...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 1, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 7, 2014 By the time you are reading this the restored last surviving wooden whaleship, Charles W. Morgan, will be at the State Pier in New Bedford, MA in early July. The Morgan will be moving on to Boston July 18-20 to tie up alongside the USS...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 24, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 27, 2014 The other day on the Middleton Stream Team’s annual June paddle down river we were delighted by the lush green canyon with walls of swamp dogwood, reed-canary grass, and a half dozen other wetland plants. The dogwood is now in full...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 17, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 20, 2014 Usually our weekly closet essay is written first, and then a suitable photo sought. This week Stream Team photographer Judy Schneider has taken the lead with a domestic scene of beauty. The feathered family photographed is on and around...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 10, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 13, 2014 Red maple, swamp maple and Acer rubrum are all names of one species of tree frequently mentioned here in the Ipswich River Watershed and no doubt everywhere there are beavers drowning them. Up until Castor canadensis, beavers, returned...
