It is Saturday morning during a mid-November day. Somewhere out along the Appalachian Mountains there is a cold front that is anticipated to move eastward. The weather forecasters are predicting the front to come through the coastal regions of the Mid-Atlantic sometime overnight. Until then, the sky is partly cloudy. The atmosphere is moist with showers, some heavy at times, and it is unseasonably warm with high temperatures likely to be into the mid 60s. There are blustery winds blowing from the south.  Read more »

The second Sunday of the month has set in.  It is a chilly morning with a sharp north wind.

(A young-of-the -year Oyster Toadfish recently observed in the Navesink River)  Read more »

Just in case you were wondering, a plastic, supermarket-sized grocery bag holds about eight pounds of bottle caps.  These were all picked up off the beaches of New Jersey, and they are all going to be recycled.   Read more »

November has arrived. It is mid-autumn. After the a week of eccentric weather of wind and rain, warmth and sun, frost and flurries, is there any doubt that autumn is a season of flux and folly as we take passage between summer and winter.

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