As Yogi Berra once famously averred, “You can observe a lot by watching.” The lower office parking lot, below the dam on the Falls River, is a splendid place to observe wildlife, even from your car. The other day, as I pulled in after lunch, I noticed a pair of Canada geese patrolling the far [...]
“Stereotypes be damned” seemed to be the message from the lethargic beaver that spent the good part of a recent afternoon lounging about the dam on the Centerbrook campus like a housecat after a three-course meal. The body language was clear: it sidled to a sunny corner of the badminton court – alas, a bit [...]
Spring hereabouts is no respecter of calendars, or human longing, or depleted woodpiles. But one glance across the millpond settles the question. Wading at the edge of the flinty gray water, backlit by moldering brown leaves, is a pure vision of hope. The Great Egret has returned.
November 19, 2010 – 11:09 am
I have been told not to write about cats and I have not. No one said anything about raccoons. A family of these masked mammals introduced themselves to Centerbrook recently. The little bandits apparently are living beneath our offices, rent free, and the entire entourage padded out into a small enclosed courtyard from which a [...]
Not to be upstaged by our resident American Egret, two new visitors have been hanging around this summer by our fishing hole. These two elegant wading birds – a mother and an immature Black-crowned Night Heron – are shown below perched in trees overlooking the Centerbrook dam. The photo above is the young one atop [...]
It rained and rained Monday and Tuesday. Then it rained a little longer, stopped and poured some more. Mother Nature can be so redundant. Sepia-toned water arched over our dam, turning white and foamy when confronted with an obstruction or the rocks below. At the end of the day, the badminton court was under water, [...]
February 24, 2010 – 5:24 pm
Late this week here in the Land of Steady Precipitation has been dreary to the Nth power, unless, of course, you are calculating the kilo wattage that the winter freshet is producing at our corporate dam site out back, as “rain man” Bill Rutan is wont to do on his PC. The word that our [...]
February 19, 2010 – 11:37 am
This post is about cormorants and kingfishers. It is not a metaphorical rant by a disgruntled employee. I am, in fact, more or less gruntled. One of the appealing aspects of working here is the attractive campus and the concomitant avian activity about the Falls River, which bounds the offices of Centerbrook Architects. The first [...]
