Adventure & Music Photographer
While their farmstand is open year-round, where they offer farm-grown herbs, produce, honey, and many other items, it’s their flowers – particularly sunflowers – that the farm along the North Shore of Massachusetts is known for. Here are some photographs of the 21st season of the sunflower bloom. Operating since 1960, the 370-acre family farm
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Explore 12 miles of trails at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, featuring several meadows, a glacial boulder, old-growth trees, and beaver ponds. Trails link to nearby Wachusett Mountain and the Midstate Trail. Wachusett Meadow, once a working farm, now features stunning landscapes and rich wildlife across its woodlands, wetlands, and meadows. Historic barns and buildings remain
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Three days and two nights of peakbagging summits and camping in the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. The 21-mile trek will bring me by waterfalls, scenic views, one AMC hut, and up and over four 4,000+ foot mountains. This brings my count to 34 of the 48 for the NH48 Challenge. Also gained
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Spent the day trekking along a short section of the New England Trail called the Seven Sisters Ridge, birding along the summit of Mount Holyoke, and dodging falling millipedes throughout the hike. The 9 miles out-and-back hike followed the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail and the New England Trail. Mostly sunny, with a high near 72, though it’s
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