Calendar of Walks and Other Programs

Program Offerings 2018

Great Meadows Evening Walk
Friday, May 11, 6:30-8 pm
Great Meadows NWR, Monson Rd., Concord

Please join me for an evening stroll through Great Meadows at the height of early spring migration. We'll listen for warblers and frog calls, find early blossoms and dancing gnats, enjoy the sunset glow, and any other wondrous surprises this reluctant spring has to offer.  I miss walking with you all, hope you can make it!

Meet in the parking lot at GMNWR. Follow Rte. 62/Bedford St. in Concord to Monsen Rd.  Follow Monson Rd. to a sharp right curve and turn into the refuge driveway there on the left.

As always, your donations are appreciated.


Conveying Place in Spring: Photography Workshop | deCordova Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Saturday, May 12, 10 am - 12 pm 

The landscape awakens, and liveliness and color return.  Time to retune the eye, sensibilities, and our cameras to the delicate tones and patterns of spring.  As photographers of place, we'll open to the nuances of this season and explore its relationship with the deCordova's rolling terrain and sculptures.

The workshop will be facilitated by photographer and naturalist, Cherrie Corey, who lived in the heart of Thoreau country for the last forty years and has chronicled the beauty, moods, and rhythms of its landscapes in thousands of photographic images.  This program will build on delightfully successful workshops that Cherrie led this past summer and winter, which opened participants to revelations of perception, challenges of the season, and a renewed sense of wonder and adventure with their cameras.

No photography experience necessary.  Participants use their own equipment of any type (smart phones, digital, or film cameras).

To register, go to:

https://decordova.org/calendar/conveying-place-spring-photo-workshop

Concord Annual Bird Walk

Saturday, May 12, 6:30-9 am

Meet at 141 Keyes Road, parking lot outside of town offices

A decades-long tradition, the annual town boardwalk, coordinated by Peter Alden, will convene at Keyes Road and head out in ably-led groups to the town's birdy wild lands. I'm hoping to join in for at least part of the morning, before heading to the deCordova.

Savoring Concord's Botanical Legacy 

Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main St., Concord, MA

Friday, April 13, 7 pm - POSTPONED TO SPRING 2019

Concord's wild flora holds an incomparable place in history for the detail of its study and the memorable impressions it has made in the hearts and minds of readers, scholars, naturalists, and scientists around the world.  Thoreau's expansive and precise chronicles of Concord's plant life inspired more than a century and a half of further botanical exploration and documentation, artistic and literary renderings, and an enduring public interest in long saunterings through Concord's landscapes to commune with its plants and immerse in a deeply familiar sensibility of place.

Longtime Concord resident, naturalist, and photographer, Cherrie Corey, has been an intimate student, active field consultant, and popular teacher of Concord's flora and landscape for many years. Her field programs, website, and photographic presentations have introduced thousands to the plants and wild places that form the essence of this historic town.  With her beautiful photographs and intimate knowledge, Cherrie will take us on a botanical stroll through time and place to meet Concord's floral residents (indigenous and introduced) and some of the key people, past and present, who have helped to keep this legacy alive and flourishing.

Monthly Concord Conservation Coffees
First Tuesday @ month, 7:30 am from September - May
141 Keyes Rd., Concord, 1st Fl Meeting Rm.

Flora and fauna at Sleepy Hollow

Informal gathering and information exchange between town natural resources and other interested staff and board members and local environmental leaders, organizations, naturalists, and interested citizens.  Meeting usually lasts about an hour.  Bring your coffee mug, coffee and coffee cake available with donation.



 








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