“Open wide and say ahh!” This is one fish that would be a dentist’s dream. It wasn’t a dentist who found a dead basking shark at Menemsha Beach last weekend.

There are many ways to view the very cold and snowy winter we have been having.

A bottle tree is not something botanical you might find at the Polly Hill Arboretum, or in any of our Island woodlands for that matter.

The size of your log really does matter.

The biggest and hardest log is most coveted for the traditional holiday Yule log. Its purpose was to provide a long and hot burn for the family festivities.

Lichens don’t seem to agonize over the question of whether to be or not to be. Living innocuously on many surfaces, they lack the drama, dreams and desires of humans, but nevertheless they have a fascinating existence.

Our holiday bird is making its last stand. Long after the leftovers are gone, one turkey part still remains in my kitchen; a drying wishbone awaits its destiny.