The best place in New Haven to practice the Japanese custom of hanami—cherry blossom-viewing, with optional sake-fueled feasts and poem-writing sessions …
Archive | Nature
RSS feed for this section
Flight Club
The first rule of Flight Club is: You do not talk about Flight Club. Not in English, anyway.
Chirps, caws, trills and squawks, however, are totally acceptable. …
Mixed Feeling
A few Saturdays ago, marbled vaporous plumes of white and charcoal and every shade between curtained across a roiling New Haven sky. Sunlight punched…
Living on the Edge
Nature doesn’t play favorites when it comes to which plants can go where. But man abides few tenants, plants or otherwise, within the spaces he carves out for himself.
Take soccer fields. Even at…
Top Tree
“A Beech is, in almost any landscape where it appears, the finest tree to be seen.”—Donald Culross Peattie, A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America…
Land Rover
When Lianne Audette was five, her father sailed her out onto the small lake near their New Jersey home, then jumped ship. Forced to sail back on her own, she reacted not with fear but with gusto, initiating a…
Inquire Within
Fort Nathan Hale Park, occupying a stretch of Morris Cove’s coastline, is a curious place, and a place where curiosity pays.
Nathan Hale, Connecticut’s official state hero since 1985, is…
Supernatural
You’re alone in a marsh on the eve of Halloween, and it’s almost dark.
You’d been driving down Ella T. Grasso Boulevard when a flurry of light agitated your eyes, pulled them west towards a waning…
Fall-In
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
—from The Misunderstanding by Albert Camus
Not every leaf in New Haven is a flower. Indeed, most aren’t. Not yet. But there’s no denying the…
Articles
Community Partners
Subscribe
Receive Daily Nutmeg emails featuring local insights and deals from around New Haven.
