by Roger Talbot | Aug 5, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 11, 2017 Seven paddlers including the Old Closeteer arose in the dark and wondered for a moment why they were doing so. It was four-o’clock; sunrise, their target, was at five-thirty. They planned to greet the sun’s early light on the...
by Roger Talbot | Mar 30, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for March 31, 2017 The other morning Middleton Stream Teamers while spring cleaning the park at Farnsworth Landing on the Ipswich River compared notes on Aix sponsa, wood ducks, recently seen. We agreed that there has been an increase of this species in...
by Middleton Stream Team | Dec 23, 2016 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 30, 2016 Ice is back as it should be in December. On Friday, 16 December, the early morning temperature was 0° F; the flags on a fair northwest wind in front of St. Agnes Church, the old Closeteer’s wind gauge, were straight out....
by Roger Talbot | Dec 12, 2016 | Water Closet Blog
[metaslider id=4272] The Middleton Stream Team photo contest awards were announced on November 27 at the Lura Woodside Watkins Museum in Middleton. The 2016 first place award, a colorful photograph of salamander eggs discovered in a vernal pool, went to Donna Bambury...
by Roger Talbot | May 4, 2016 | Water Closet Blog
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by Middleton Stream Team | Nov 30, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 4, 2015 [pullquote]”Our colleague happily grumbled on and told us of carrying water in the winter, full bucket from each arm, out through narrow paths in the snow, his swinging tormentors banging against legs as water spilling over...