by Amy DuFault | Feb 28, 2022 | Pond Stories
There are so many things to see and do on the Cape in the winter and taking an easy hike to a local pond is not only free, it’s good for your mental and physical health. With everything happening in the world right now that is completely out of your hands, clear...
by Amy DuFault | Feb 14, 2022 | Pond Stories
I recently finished reading Patti Smith’s The Year of the Monkey the day after Chinese New Year, this year, The Year of the Tiger. Smith’s final thought in the book, “The trouble with dreaming is that we eventually wake up.” Sometimes. Before I dove into the...
by Amy DuFault | Jan 18, 2022 | Pond Stories
I recently discovered this Smithsonian’s Stories from Main Street Podcast from a friend in Western Mass who has been watching our water challenges here on the Cape. Not to take any comfort in that we are not alone with this issue, it is exciting to see the...
by Amy DuFault | Jan 3, 2022 | Pond Stories
The more I wander pond-lined paths thick with Eastern Red Cedar and pitch pine in the Outer Cape, the more I smell the rich scent of decomposing mosses and berries in the woods of the Cape, the better I understand why I’ve lived here most of my 51 years of life....
by Amy DuFault | Dec 6, 2021 | Pond Stories
Years ago, I had a neighbor who would literally strap himself with a plastic backpack full of herbicides and eradicate all of his “weeds.” A summer person mostly, he’d taken to living here on John’s Pond year-round for some reason or another....
