Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

After the Storm

googamooga2They were still cleaning the shit of IdiotMooga out of the Nethermead late this afternoon.googamoogaA strange legacy of this monstrous farce, now a bust two years in a row. These serving pans were sunk besides the Binnen Bridge, still full of what looked to be sausages on skewers, or “curated cured and bespoke meat” as the hipsters say. But I can’t end with this foulness. Here, in tiny detail, some denizens of the park who have no representation in the fetid halls of power enjoy the afternoon:Upper PoolChipmunk, turtle, and, unseen but vocal, bullfrog.

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