Poltrack Blog

Update (01/06/2018) Happy 2018, one of my New Year's resolutions is to  do a better job with my blogging efforts.  This blog has been in existence for over 11 years and I'm embarrassed to say many of the original 700+ postings were missing images, had broken links and trival content. I've done some serious pruning and deleted about 300 posts with more to review. The image management has always been a issue on the blogger platform. The images in posts aren't stored directly but are linked to another location. It the address of that location changes, the reader is presented with a exclamation graphic (seen below). The actual location of the images has been a mystery until today when I found my Photos from Blogger albums. Each blog has it's own photo album and they are out of sync the photos will not be displayed properly. It is work in progress, thanks for reading. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> My Original Posting below<<...

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" Muhammed Ali Good morning, Yesterday I spread some straw in the garden (available at Mason Brook Nursery ) to maintain the moisture and protect the soil from being compacted.I was pleased to see that the snap peas were just beginning to blossom. Won't be long till the first harvest of 2016. The Kousa Dogwood is flowering. This is a great tree for our climate, it is very hardy The "rain covers" have formed on this pitcher plant. I believe this variety is Sarracencia flava Athyrium niponicum Japanese Painted Fern really lights up shady areas. I'm trying to get it to spread out. The Miss Kim lilac is in full bloom now. This variety is unbelievably fragrant, almost cloyingly so. I find it almost intoxicating and it is a magnet for Eastern tiger swallowtails ( Papilio glaucus ) Papilo glaucus When I moved to New Ipswich in 1974 I found an early blooming daylily on the property. Th...