![]() ![]() In the 1860s, and throughout the years, she and her extended family created a large estate with rare, elegant flowers, and several vegetable gardens and orchards. Before the Adelaide Way development off Webster Street was built, it was vast conservation land, previously owned by the world-renowned opera singer, Adelaide Philips. My dad, always aware of, and familiar with nature, started taking me owling during the late fall and winter months on the land behind our house in Green Harbor. One story that always stayed with me was “ Owl Moon”, by Jane Yolen, about a father who takes his daughter owling on a cold winter night. When I was young, my mom would read her favorite books to me and my brother before bedtime. “I please myself with the graces of winter scenery, and believe we are as much touched by it, as by the genial influences of summer”ĭeer and coyote tracks imprinted on a freshly fallen snow a quiet river ![]()
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