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Moon and Crackle Glass Birdfeeder

January 16, 2012 // 0 Comments

Winter has finally arrived in New England. The temperature scraped the low teens for a few days last week, and even dipped into the single digits over the weekend. To the [...]

Urban Safari: Boston Nature Center

January 10, 2012 // 0 Comments

The first in the series of Urban Safari got quite a nice response and a lot of excellent suggestions on other locations. One of those suggestions was the Boston Nature [...]

Urban Safari: Franklin Park Zoo

January 2, 2012 // 0 Comments

The  Franklin Park Zoo is just a few miles from the RainyDayMagazine office, yet in all the years we have been in Boston we have never been there. So over the Holiday [...]

First Frost

October 28, 2011 // 0 Comments

Bostonians  woke up to frost on their windows and black ice on the ground today. The sheen will not last long, but it is a clear sign that it is time to get out the [...]

Urban Safari: Backyard Adventures

July 1, 2011 // 0 Comments

A  bright red cardinal has been visiting the bird feeder in the RainyDayGarden these past few weeks. For days, we have been stalking this elusive visitor, but despite our [...]

Urban Safari : FirstSnow 2010

December 27, 2010 // 0 Comments

First big storm of the season and it was a doozie. The snow was light and fluffy and the wind created some fairly good size drifts. Good thing we don’t have any plans [...]

Columbus Day Weekend 2010

October 11, 2010 // 0 Comments

Food  and relaxation are the two most important goals of our annual Columbus Day Weekend retreat. We used to head up to Maine to Ogunquit, Wells, or Monhegan Island. [...]

Urban Safari : Manchester-by-the-Sea

June 23, 2010 // 0 Comments

Bird watching is a great way to spend a day. It is also a great way to justify the purchase of those REALLY big telephoto and zoom lenses to the accounting department. Our [...]

Feeding Time

January 3, 2010 // 0 Comments

It has been snowing for three days straight. Most of the stuff coming down is light and fluffy, but it is starting to pile up! All this snow is making it more difficult for [...]

Urban Safari : New Year’s Day 2010

January 1, 2010 // 0 Comments

Aren’t robins suppose to be the harbinger of Spring?  Well, we were down on Commonwealth Ave in Boston today and came upon a tree full of those red-breasted [...]
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