tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66171336818225256212024-03-06T00:45:25.290-08:00Conversations at the CreekThe Teaneck Creek Conservancy is a member-supported, non-profit organization dedicated to the reclamation and protection of the environmental, cultural, and historical legacy of the Teaneck Creek watershed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-18782793543088196952010-05-11T08:53:00.000-07:002010-05-11T09:24:02.035-07:00May 22-23 Papermaking with Plants – Anytime, anywhere, anyhow<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmpmNj1UfKy55KTkUAA1CSW5GjaDiKHMTjXjgBOr6kQEneWhCDwQvkmqr1m2Eq215qLmnPKZIB0tUD6UwJJlgvknaxWI04Nsl6_dEUWARaiTjnUaTAmQduFT5iDxMhHRRXgArikqvVTPGU/s1600/Jane+beating+pulp.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmpmNj1UfKy55KTkUAA1CSW5GjaDiKHMTjXjgBOr6kQEneWhCDwQvkmqr1m2Eq215qLmnPKZIB0tUD6UwJJlgvknaxWI04Nsl6_dEUWARaiTjnUaTAmQduFT5iDxMhHRRXgArikqvVTPGU/s200/Jane+beating+pulp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470048766992798290" /></a><br /><br />Jane Ingram Allen, TCC's visiting artist in residence will led this 2-day adult workshop which will cover how to make paper from local plant materials with minimal equipment and facilities and sustainable practices. The emphasis will be on creative problem solving to make unique handmade paper art using ordinary household equipment and plants found in your own backyard. The instructor will introduce unique techniques that she has developed from her experiences as an artist in residence in Taiwan, Nepal, Japan, Brazil, the Philippines, Tanzania and Bali, Indonesia as well as at art centers and nature parks in the USA. Both Asian and Western papermaking techniques will be used during the workshop. This workshop runs 9am -4pm with abreak for lunch. Students will provide their own lunch.<br /><br />Jane Ingram Allen is an American sculptor/installation artist and hand papermaker. She is originally from Alabama and has lived in New York State since 1988. In 2004 she received a Fulbright Scholar Award for a six-month research project on hand papermaking in Taiwan. Her Fulbright grant was extended through July 2005 with sponsorship by the Taiwan Council for Cultural Affairs/National Endowment for Culture and Art. Jane’s work in Taiwan has resulted in the publication of a book “Made in Taiwan – an American Papermaking Artist’s Journey Around Taiwan” that details her experience of living and working in 14 different communities and using over 135 different plants to make paper. Jane currently lives in central Taiwan with her husband Tim who is teaching English at a local college.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-50584646310557332792010-05-11T08:46:00.000-07:002010-05-11T08:51:50.021-07:00Sunset Wine and Restaurant Tasting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1dWpOwcwDXFs0WvpiG_7WFqnWhkVYGv5hmNRFetSHRBKmHMBbrK70Sa1YjbfOoOb-B75Si7U8QfPcQu8DmawnqvZd5wxAWXzl5EUPH5BxpOP_a2_9br9sU6lyHtNm5AgNMnhkc5F_O6PM/s1600/Reservoir+Challenge.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1dWpOwcwDXFs0WvpiG_7WFqnWhkVYGv5hmNRFetSHRBKmHMBbrK70Sa1YjbfOoOb-B75Si7U8QfPcQu8DmawnqvZd5wxAWXzl5EUPH5BxpOP_a2_9br9sU6lyHtNm5AgNMnhkc5F_O6PM/s400/Reservoir+Challenge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470040142555671058" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-2590580571491431072010-04-12T11:41:00.001-07:002010-04-12T11:42:42.045-07:00Get Outside! Explore Nature! Learn Running Basics! Have Fun!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1uYNJB4V1zppgzPb30pu2PZgGNa6ddGZQfhwEVvXp2tu0Sc3tFc0QO4JTA7BV5AnDUJETk0dedK0M0XjJk5RWPXeQcK6Tx8zTSagijznzchCdRSthj4oDX8agpUX6n9E01vOxOsr619I7/s1600/DSC_8610.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1uYNJB4V1zppgzPb30pu2PZgGNa6ddGZQfhwEVvXp2tu0Sc3tFc0QO4JTA7BV5AnDUJETk0dedK0M0XjJk5RWPXeQcK6Tx8zTSagijznzchCdRSthj4oDX8agpUX6n9E01vOxOsr619I7/s400/DSC_8610.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459323243588876626" /></a><br />The Teaneck Creek Conservancy is pleased to support the Tenafly Nature Center while they repair their trails by holding The Trail Running Club at TCC. The Trail Running Club is a FREE youth fitness program that focuses on our mission of teaching the next generation to appreciate nature. Together we will build endurance, learn new skills, develop teamwork, and get healthy! <br /><br />Educator/Coach Phil Germakian, a NJ certified teacher educator, is a USA Track and Field Level 1 coach and is CPR-certified. His intimate knowledge of TCC’s trails and enthusiasm for both running and nature will make this program safe and enjoyable for all. This is a non-competitive running club. No experience is necessary but space is limited. To register call Devery at TCC 201-836-2403 or email devery@teaneckcreek.org.<br /><br />The Teaneck Creek Conservancy is located at <br />20 Puffin Way Teaneck, NJ 07666 <br /><br />For directions go teaneckcreekconservancy.org and click on directionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-89242479908215960172010-04-12T10:29:00.000-07:002010-04-12T10:33:37.675-07:00WINDOWS ON THE PARK II<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiVOzgDsN1yn1CWoI08fBSAGwN-fLRYO6mHUQ2mLzGgvUG54UKccrGjIw1Kbs99HLuh8AD8dd3Gome3PQJClk_DHLhAIhvsV9Gt4Faz5qE0QDjV9sDmAc3k1-FZKF6nYSKsB23cPhSEiIT/s1600/DSC_8599.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiVOzgDsN1yn1CWoI08fBSAGwN-fLRYO6mHUQ2mLzGgvUG54UKccrGjIw1Kbs99HLuh8AD8dd3Gome3PQJClk_DHLhAIhvsV9Gt4Faz5qE0QDjV9sDmAc3k1-FZKF6nYSKsB23cPhSEiIT/s400/DSC_8599.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459305146100554658" /></a><br /><br />WINDOWS ON THE PARK II<br />Public Space - Private Space<br />Exhibit opens May 8, 2010<br /><br />The Teaneck Creek Conservancy is delighted to announce the opening of Windows On the Park II, an exhibit that examines the boundaries between public and private space. The exhibit is made up of window frames that have been removed from the walls of homes — the walls that claim to protect an individual’s privacy — and have been transplanted into the imaginary and elusive walls of the public exhibition space within Teaneck Creek Park<br /><br />Viewers who look through these window frames have to decide whether the images they see are reflected in the windowpane or if the images are photographs taken in the park and mounted to replace the glass. The images may contain a tangible as well as intangible frame-within-a-frame, thereby eluding the viewers’ perceptions of the boundary between private and public space. The images’ subjects, colors, shapes, and other formal features, as well as their combinations, provoke additional scrutiny of this uncertain limit. <br /><br />Said curator Rachel Banai: “Is there a separation between public space and private space? Can we employ our mind to define our private space? Is our mind our only private space? This exhibition challenges the myth that there is a separation between public and private spaces. It unsettles our belief that we can use our mind to separate between the public and the private. It argues that we do not enjoy privacy even in the supposed intimacy of our mind. Public and private spaces are interwoven, and they are the results of our imagination, education, and belief systems as well as the consequences of technology, government, religious, and commerce control and indoctrination.” <br /> <br />This exhibit will run from May 8 through May 31. It is sponsored by the Teaneck Creek Conservancy and Puffin Forum Photography Club members.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-14843378294510607662010-02-07T10:26:00.000-08:002010-02-07T10:31:21.314-08:00The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation visits Teaneck Creek ConservancyThe Teaneck Creek Conservancy is maturing from it's community based roots to a recognitionzed EcoArt innovator. We were fortunate to be invited to apply for a grant with The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and a subsequent site visit by Wendy Liscow, Program Officer. She shared her experience at TCC in her blog <a href="http://blog.grdodge.org/2010/02/03/notes-from-the-road-teaneck-creek-conservancy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://blog.grdodge.org/2010/02/03/notes-from-the-road-teaneck-creek-conservancy/</a>. Her comments are copied below as well.<br /><br />"Notes from the Road: Wendy Liscow, Program Officer Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation<br /><br />The conversation with Dodge Foundation grantees about our new guideline themes Creativity and Sustainability has stimulated a wonderful investigative journey, but the real satisfaction has come from experiencing the two concepts coming together in action. As my colleagues and I travel the state visiting current and potential grantees, we have the honor of witnessing passionate leaders making these connections. Recently, I met some board members of Teaneck Creek Conservancy, a group of environmentalists, artists, educators and community advocates who shared a vision to save 46 acres of land, but in a manner that utilized eco-art to strengthen the community’s connection to and experience of the park.<br /><br />This marriage of sustainability and creativity was brought to life during a January walk in the woods.The hike into Teaneck Creek Park was not long, but the path was still covered with splotches of ice and snow and the air was brutally cold, so it felt like we would never reach our destination. Just as I was longing for my scarf left back in the car, we turned the bend and five bright patches of color emerged from the bleak winter landscape to grab my attention. There sat five beautifully painted massive cement storm water pipes: spherical murals in nature, telling the story of nature. If you had ventured down the same path this past spring you would have been distraught to discover five graffiti-covered storm pipes that had been littering this otherwise pristine slice of nature since the 1960’s.<br /><br />Strolling later in the buggy heat of summer you would have found lead artist Eduardo Alexander Rabel, students from a variety of Teaneck schools, and community volunteers sketching, then painting, the visual stories of the vibrant local flora and fauna, and the impact of humankind on nature over time.The artistry took my breath away, but the depth of the community art process was what impressed me most, and it is all captured in this wonderful video that I urge you to take the time to watch. www.youtube.com/teaneckcreekconserva<br /><br />This is not Teaneck Creek Conservancy’s first marriage of art and nature. In April 2009 members of the Puffin Photo club led by professional photographer Rachel Banai put together an unique outdoor art exhibition called “Windows on the Park” that utilized old sash windows to frame photographic works that told the story of the seven year transformation of this brownfields-to-greenfields track of land. Many people would agree that nurturing creativity, supporting public art projects and protecting our environment are worthy endeavors, but they approach each task separately. But when they combine these laudable goals, something larger than the sum of the parts occurs, as Dodge Program Director Michelle Knapik noted in her recent post about The Voices From the Land project.<br /><br />We are interested in knowing if you have participated in or seen creativity and sustainability in action, experienced the flow of these two forces coming together, and if so, what was it that made this connection meaningful?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-90704673135778113712009-10-28T05:33:00.001-07:002009-10-28T05:39:16.318-07:00The Five Pipes Are Open<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPm-x_5AD26bSjD54G4_ZnX53YQNhGf4hcFlDAB6sCGv34FBgEAcr8ILC6lEkTaWVWOSaWbTkb0p9j0b-4PXyeQV69zS6SzGnoaqjzTAWYuvV_OEObdmQjE4GeTGxgkhsv6v2z04Fb8Vwm/s1600-h/Pipesbig-group.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPm-x_5AD26bSjD54G4_ZnX53YQNhGf4hcFlDAB6sCGv34FBgEAcr8ILC6lEkTaWVWOSaWbTkb0p9j0b-4PXyeQV69zS6SzGnoaqjzTAWYuvV_OEObdmQjE4GeTGxgkhsv6v2z04Fb8Vwm/s400/Pipesbig-group.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397628920062871154" border="0" /></a>
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<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">On October 21st we celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony officiated by County Executive Dennis McNerney.</p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">“This unique artistic project involved the transformation and beautification of five graffiti covered storm pipes that had been abandoned in the 1960’s on what is now the 46 acre Teaneck Creek Conservancy in Teaneck, NJ. The murals painted on the pipes are educational in nature, addressing the theme of human relationship to nature throughout different eras in local history.” Lead Artist, Eduardo Alexander Rabel.</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-56349691620345135112009-04-01T16:14:00.000-07:002009-04-02T10:43:08.319-07:00Sneak Preview<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuaPwFoJ_QHWLe4IQLy8wdELjKYjpjvXsE60s-14X1Ji4TH98jHQgIsLItwUtF-rRNe01Tuq7-_0_ryNhTe5hPd1cbbfR0JHo5-2odWDAp_gsuJ0q7-1TZQ_g0xXyL0KbuEHVBD9tFpsA/s1600-h/Windows.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320150287291236530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 306px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 222px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuaPwFoJ_QHWLe4IQLy8wdELjKYjpjvXsE60s-14X1Ji4TH98jHQgIsLItwUtF-rRNe01Tuq7-_0_ryNhTe5hPd1cbbfR0JHo5-2odWDAp_gsuJ0q7-1TZQ_g0xXyL0KbuEHVBD9tFpsA/s320/Windows.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhRtrOaaj5jEg45Rah6K-A64V_cGoN3Oywsp9u9M9Cw4UhoQEucAkJ6qUvIoscN7PAVE1ZQ_VzI32-dI0BeaHJQND8kqwGkTrDl3Rf5hZ1KM1Y9e8L2T6GkWs0_BB5DW6m1IllRec3Wk/s1600-h/Windows.jpg"></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">So what is it about being around creative people? They are like flashes of bright red in gray landscape. I always feel elevated in their presence.<br /><br />This weekend the Creek is opening a photography exhibit that features the work of members of the Puffin Camera Club. An eclectic bunch, led by professional photographer Rachel Banai, they have been documenting the environs of the Teaneck Creek Park for over seven years now. Their collective work has captured the metamorphosis of this 46-acre brownfields-to-greenfields site with amazing clarity and beauty.<br /><br />In the <strong>"Windows on the Park"</strong> exhibit PCC members have used old wooden window sashes to frame some of their most striking images. In the exhibit the frames will be hung from the black walnut trees in the meadow area of the park during the month of April.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhiJceqpz7E3gJGfRWD-FdXebbrJ-NC_XCx10GIYfptvXj2jawBt9Z04VxNlW5m5cem-YGcZNAn7aK5INfr0Jlz7OLbvRPw8GmRS5_0sXTzXduC5R1c915d8iDVCnLjE-jOqgGTtkyeE/s1600-h/DSC_5995.JPG"></a><br /><br /><br />We had a great time hanging the work. Each piece was more incredible than the next. I couldn't help thinking about what people see when they come to our park. It is intentionally a wild place, without the outward trappings of formal gardens or trimmed and groomed green spaces, but that does not mean it is without great beauty. The photographers in this group can see it, and catch it. Can you? </span><br /></div><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Come on out and see for yourself:</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>Windows on the Park / Artists' Reception</strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>Sunday, April 5, 2009</strong></span></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Noon to 2:00pm / </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Teaneck Creek Park / </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">20 Puffin Way, Teaneck NJ</span></span></strong></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">For directions or more information, visit our <a href="http://www.teaneckcreek.org/">website</a>, and follow the programming links.</span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">See you on the trails! </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-79558650774470534462009-03-26T07:55:00.000-07:002009-04-01T16:13:45.567-07:00Come out, come out where ever you are<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7WOv5C2fegUVNrIvct7FF_85NfWFv1NhmwNTX1gm-Ze48Ihvr-RFQ9aYPkBDQWbcQilmgge0XasKnTbEk8S1P9ApiHz1kAm611H1F1tDzAG_zjRyBaF7h_yUtxatnhpc5ol_2PXPm18/s1600-h/Organic-Vegetable-Gardening-Techniques-783225.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7WOv5C2fegUVNrIvct7FF_85NfWFv1NhmwNTX1gm-Ze48Ihvr-RFQ9aYPkBDQWbcQilmgge0XasKnTbEk8S1P9ApiHz1kAm611H1F1tDzAG_zjRyBaF7h_yUtxatnhpc5ol_2PXPm18/s320/Organic-Vegetable-Gardening-Techniques-783225.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317523064771768690" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Now that spring is officially here my mind is racing with thoughts on green and growing things. I was buoyed by the announcement that the Obamas are going to<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/dining/20garden.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eat The View</span> </a>and grow their own veggies on the White House Lawn. Raised beds, organic seedlings, bee hives, and fifth graders - who wouldn't be excited!</span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br />It sent me in search of a project I heard about several years ago called </span><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/edibleestates/main.html">Edible Estates </a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >where homes across the country were ditching their carefully groomed and trimmed front lawns in favor of fruit and vegetable producing gardens of Eden. Check out this<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/edibleestates/nyc-suburbs.html">Maplewood</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" > yard that was transformed.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >When I looked further, I see the good work has continued, and this spring the same initiative is putting in a </span><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/edibleestates/lenape.html">Lenape Children's Garden</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" > in New York City. This from their website:</span><span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:130%;" ><br />:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">This landscape will simulate how the native Lenape people lived off the land on the island of Manhattan 400 years ago, with native edible plants and cultivars such as beans, corn and squash (three sisters).<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How great is that!</span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChl8U7SdLZ8sOYk18cUp_4oLs7v_57y9DuOMteqZgzn1fmllAKp-8ekGiisvw7D-cpUmQhqxH0p7iPnp_5Dl6rGYLVpSxtly3P44a_PbugU6-_H_WbYIycZDPvdZMD0LOOlA5L83c2rg/s1600-h/Fyckedeer-sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChl8U7SdLZ8sOYk18cUp_4oLs7v_57y9DuOMteqZgzn1fmllAKp-8ekGiisvw7D-cpUmQhqxH0p7iPnp_5Dl6rGYLVpSxtly3P44a_PbugU6-_H_WbYIycZDPvdZMD0LOOlA5L83c2rg/s320/Fyckedeer-sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317517649176724354" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >One of the very captivating parts of our history here at the Teaneck Creek Park is that our 46-acre parcel was once home to a thriving Lenape community. They used these lands and waterways to hunt and fish. Fycke Lane, which borders our northern edge, pays tribute to the Lenape hunting device called a "fycke", and the grounds of the creek were part of a parcel of land that the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratam">Lenape Leader Oratam</a> gifted to Dutch translator Sarah Kiersted back in 1669. (visit out<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.teaneckcreek.org/history.html">history page</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" > for more details).</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >So even though it seems it way too gray and cold outside, I know this too shall pass, as spring advances undeterred. Anyone up for a little</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.guerrillagardening.org/"> Guerrilla Gardening</a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > in the park??!!?</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >See you on the trails!</span><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-70880046045613998662009-03-09T11:28:00.001-07:002009-03-09T12:05:09.932-07:00Ready, set, go!<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxq_gbqkKtjOMFESM3hEUjqwJ8NTuMP3CJeQdCusLGQJ79EfYBSbQFce1IRTR2rEFKQ0XQA3FJxSFjnHJz2G_0ozQqYJGgg-431ypDKpLZadhAGlKmTg2TOi59-P2_x9V8ohRYlKwlh9s/s1600-h/crocus.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311264028094167138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxq_gbqkKtjOMFESM3hEUjqwJ8NTuMP3CJeQdCusLGQJ79EfYBSbQFce1IRTR2rEFKQ0XQA3FJxSFjnHJz2G_0ozQqYJGgg-431ypDKpLZadhAGlKmTg2TOi59-P2_x9V8ohRYlKwlh9s/s320/crocus.JPG" border="0" /></a>The park is like an orchestra just before a performance. All the musicians are getting settled, instruments are being tuned, and the hum of the expectant concert-goers fills the air. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><div align="left"></div><div align="justify">When I saw this photo from the Puffin Camera Club of these crocuses, upright and ready to burst, I thought of bows posied over stringed instruments, just waiting for the conductor's signal. </div><div align="justify"><br />If you are poised to leap too, consider joining us this weekend when we host:<br /><br /><strong>The Second Annual Weed Warrior Breakfast & Training </strong><br /><strong>Saturday, March 14th @ 10:00am /</strong> <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">20 Puffin Way, Teaneck</span><br /></strong><br />Teaneck Creek's Weed Warriors are part of an all-volunteer force that works throughout the spring season to manage the non-native invasive plants in our 46-acre park. Come on out and spend some quality time with your favorite non-profit, you'll feel better, enhance the environment, and develop new friendships too! </div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">To RSVP, email Shelly at <a href="mailto:weedwarrior@teaneckcreek.org"><strong><span style="color:#006600;">weedwarrior@teaneckcreek.org</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#006600;"> .</span></strong></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-78594455665422035092009-03-02T08:47:00.000-08:002009-03-02T09:46:38.174-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWB1Z4tcIAmYcoEs34h26UK2tRLnubWB4nXvvJRklz2Hfz6te41X50U5MJtg0Dn-rDXiBjRtPC-JqZdIqMeE5MKXJK081Und_OiwBGcnGSwGNsvkVmTy1ooEkOhzwVfO0nQ55opvvKeA/s1600-h/DSC_0075.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWB1Z4tcIAmYcoEs34h26UK2tRLnubWB4nXvvJRklz2Hfz6te41X50U5MJtg0Dn-rDXiBjRtPC-JqZdIqMeE5MKXJK081Und_OiwBGcnGSwGNsvkVmTy1ooEkOhzwVfO0nQ55opvvKeA/s320/DSC_0075.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308633701240748818" border="0" /></a>I'd like to think that I was one of those gardeners that has spent the last several months pouring over seed catalogs and dutifully starting trays of seedlings in my basement six weeks before the last frost, but alas, such forethought and energy usually eludes me.<br /><br />Wintertime does find me yearning for green growing things though, especially on a day when March reminds us that winter is still king. So I was pleasantly stoked when I read a posting from <a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.kitchengardeners.org/">Kitchen Gardeners International</a> today about the cost effectiveness of growing your own veggies. They're the organization behind the campaign to persuade the Obamas to plant an organic vegetable garden on the front lawn of the<a href="http://www.eattheview.org/"> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">White House.</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span>Just the kind of awe-inspiring energy and "outside of the box" thinking that inspires me to hug something green. Good for us and good for the planet! See you on the trails!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-13633255084936775222009-02-25T05:50:00.000-08:002009-02-25T10:22:12.604-08:00No Surprises<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehdX2dHHeEhaltpQUk-v92byNBguSfqcwlO7oUkjMSDXVkVXS4hhaNObtt7L-rf0Ol_PNKBNa1L75tR8QjohY1fBTlbvxkp0-ZluHe_LgDqVbXKSF1u5GEI_FajaIpW5NRNBEkubVR4s/s1600-h/natureplay.JPG"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306775995744385202" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehdX2dHHeEhaltpQUk-v92byNBguSfqcwlO7oUkjMSDXVkVXS4hhaNObtt7L-rf0Ol_PNKBNa1L75tR8QjohY1fBTlbvxkp0-ZluHe_LgDqVbXKSF1u5GEI_FajaIpW5NRNBEkubVR4s/s320/natureplay.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Remember the "I should have had a V-8!" commercials? That's the kind of reaction that I had yesterday when I read this article in the NYTimes about the benefits of time outdoors for children.<br /></span><div><div><div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/health/24well.html?th&emc=th"><em><span style="font-family:verdana;">"New research suggests that play and down time may be as important to a child's academic experience as reading, science and math and that regular recess, fitness or nature time can influence behavior, concentration and even grades."</span></em></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;">It reminded me of the time I raised the question at my daughter's middle school several years ago when I found out the students weren't allowed out of the building during the day (despite the fact that the school bordered a large, well-equipped county park). "Oh, there's just no way to keep the students out of trouble if we let them go outside" is what I was told. -Wow-</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;">Let's hope the educators and administrators who have the lion-share of our children's waking hours sit up and take notice. The Teaneck Creek Park is 46 acres of nature right here in our own backyard, only a stone's throw away from over 1000 students in Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Hawthorne Elementary school. <em>Have you taken a walk today?</em> </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;">To learn more about the movement to get our children outdoors visit </span><a href="http://www.cbf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_sub_actioncenter_federal_NCLB"><span style="font-family:verdana;">No Child Left Inside</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and Ricard Louv's </span><a href="http://www.childrenandnature.org/"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Children & Nature Network</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. </span></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-74708393762073018232009-02-14T08:04:00.000-08:002009-02-14T09:52:43.297-08:00Promises Kept<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbUpHhc6ITedP4Y3Q1KG1EjbI5Ywv0URTcDqA_uIIBHS8PehE1JcjGZiqqpkf1sAHJA3QC3qzettZwrN-QpRSPJfaZRsBHS4pxzdRAzUYNYUSDvXzXvgLs9JCm_DORjYzbpMqMPg5_R8/s1600-h/in+the+pipes.JPG"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302696504268863986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 251px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 245px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbUpHhc6ITedP4Y3Q1KG1EjbI5Ywv0URTcDqA_uIIBHS8PehE1JcjGZiqqpkf1sAHJA3QC3qzettZwrN-QpRSPJfaZRsBHS4pxzdRAzUYNYUSDvXzXvgLs9JCm_DORjYzbpMqMPg5_R8/s320/in+the+pipes.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Even though I strongly believe in working towards balance in all things, especially my work vs home life, this holiday weekend I find myself committed to being in the office to meet and greet the birders participating in The Great Backyard Bird Count and I am reminded why I love this job so much. </span><br /><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">It's the people! Not the endless paperwork, or the long meetings, or the many days when I don't even step a toe outside. It's the people who come out, even on a grey day in February, to find the beauty in this park. Their passion and joy for this little green oasis in our community spreads through me with a warm glow. Thanks! It's great to see you.</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU6Q44uIgWSMRSzLP4mkk4q0Tjkcwl2YCA9QbzWdUoCOpYZo1mQzddmkR9Glltj_P42jjntwYNTQt1eIey73qzY7UvU9Q8NY4gLISlNPeG3ZfLjB7OIfTRoRZ-UyV-A9jLCfGgtVpAOww/s1600-h/snowdrops.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302710516637927186" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU6Q44uIgWSMRSzLP4mkk4q0Tjkcwl2YCA9QbzWdUoCOpYZo1mQzddmkR9Glltj_P42jjntwYNTQt1eIey73qzY7UvU9Q8NY4gLISlNPeG3ZfLjB7OIfTRoRZ-UyV-A9jLCfGgtVpAOww/s320/snowdrops.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Spring is rising and the park is filled with the signs. More than one friend has reported their first robin sighting. The photography class tells me they've spied snowdrops.<br /><br />I'm watching the buds on the trees! Set in the autumn when everyone is distracted by the riot of fall colors, the buds take form. All winter long they sit exposed to the elements, poised, waiting to take advantage of just the right tempertaure, sunlight, and moisture. Ready to burst back into control. It won't be long now.</span><br /></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Check out friend and Teaneck Creek member </span><a href="http://martamcdowell.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">Marta McDowell's </span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">blog. Today she's talking about buds too. And she does it so well!</span></span></div><br /><div></div><em><span style="color:#006600;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"The buds, however, are darling. Even more darling in February than May, because of their promise that in a mere five weeks the light will equal the darkness in the great stretch towards Spring."<br /></span><br /></span></em><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></div>My valentine gift to you!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-15606111256670277552009-02-03T11:44:00.001-08:002009-02-03T12:13:43.620-08:00got birds?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3a5wJLuSZnFVIj5wIOJprRcvBe6lq_jKJ_yIky4ci4-SunTyMFhEGFCvatDkUdzIQCicMpoZQh2tPAJPg3j-1D3t7hGH6uKL_TlQiMwneKFdqggHFJK4giZcxMd7YcDJbntTO1SNTH-0/s1600-h/wintersparrow.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298663937806588626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 224px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3a5wJLuSZnFVIj5wIOJprRcvBe6lq_jKJ_yIky4ci4-SunTyMFhEGFCvatDkUdzIQCicMpoZQh2tPAJPg3j-1D3t7hGH6uKL_TlQiMwneKFdqggHFJK4giZcxMd7YcDJbntTO1SNTH-0/s320/wintersparrow.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The <a href="http://www.teaneckcreek.org/">Teaneck Creek Conservancy </a>loves its birds, especially at this time of year. A brilliant flash of red against the snow, or goldfinches in their winter colors never fail to inspire. Who cares about the ground hog seeing his shadow, I'd much rather watch the birds as a hopeful sign of spring.<br /><br />Join fellow bird-watchers across the nation next week for the Great Backyard Bird Count. Sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon, the program is a citizen-science project that takes a real-time snapshot of birds across the continent from February 13th through 16th. For more information about the program visit: <a href="http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc" target="_blank">www.birdsource.org/gbbc</a>.<br /><br />Come by the park at 10:00am on any of those days and we'll be happy to start you off with a warm cup of cocoa, the necessary forms, and a map of the park. If we're not here, look for the forms in our Membership Box (in the Puffin Way parking lot). And if you like, leave you completed forms back in the same box, and we'll enter the data online for you.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7GBEbR74S81ZDvZhWBM1qbepHjR8N-fZ3pVaAUzWMRFPJn5Kwz3qwC9EPv5tmdU8gMmAKs21xNTq81KQc4hVtrPh_uDabSVb_9jJv_F8wWKPQBvmymAnnrj6ufrBXJP9eDiESHLQxIFw/s1600-h/mallards+on+ice.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298663929333289922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 323px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 162px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7GBEbR74S81ZDvZhWBM1qbepHjR8N-fZ3pVaAUzWMRFPJn5Kwz3qwC9EPv5tmdU8gMmAKs21xNTq81KQc4hVtrPh_uDabSVb_9jJv_F8wWKPQBvmymAnnrj6ufrBXJP9eDiESHLQxIFw/s320/mallards+on+ice.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />See you on the trails!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-62867268984152811902009-01-23T07:16:00.000-08:002009-01-29T10:33:54.121-08:00A picture is worth a thousand words<div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0gRSMKZmuvgK84sg2KzARz8E_5ilTtnEgiSr0LoYQEL5tyV8vaQ8I8pzCUNnqpfEXnP9GCSnwaAsSSOrEtNnVlIvQKCIGyPojbrizo-OgrAMFu_YNu3aU5HOONqW18i-RCnoW1u2mTg/s1600-h/DSC_0861.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294523479771289074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 278px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 193px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0gRSMKZmuvgK84sg2KzARz8E_5ilTtnEgiSr0LoYQEL5tyV8vaQ8I8pzCUNnqpfEXnP9GCSnwaAsSSOrEtNnVlIvQKCIGyPojbrizo-OgrAMFu_YNu3aU5HOONqW18i-RCnoW1u2mTg/s320/DSC_0861.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><div align="justify">If you are following our fledgling forays into web 2.0 technology, I hope you take the time to enjoy the visual imagery. When I talk about the amazing passion of some of "our people" I am often thinking one of our most tireless cheerleaders - <a href="http://www.rachelbanai.com/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Rachel <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Banai</span> </span></a><span style="color:#3333ff;">.</span> </div><div align="justify">An internationally-recognized photographer, she has been cataloging the transformation of our site from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">dumpsite</span> to parkland, on a near-daily basis for the last six years. You can see a small sampling of some of her images in the flash movie on our <a href="http://teaneckcreek.org/"><span style="color:#3366ff;">home page</span></a><span style="color:#3366ff;">.<br /></span><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Starting January 31st, Rachel returns to teach her popular Nature Photography classes in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Teaneck</span> Creek Park. The classes meet either Saturday or Sunday morning in a series of five week cycles, and they are <em>amazing</em>! Part indoors for review, part outside in the park, the experience will leave you with an incredible urge to drop everything else in your life and just take pictures!</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The Conservancy is grateful to the <a href="http://puffinfoundation.org/"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Puffin Foundation</span></a> for underwriting the cost of the tuition so that we can offer it to our community for a very modest fee. Visit the <a href="http://www.puffinfoundation.org/forum/forum_new/workshops/photo.html"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Puffin Cultural Forum</span> </a>for dates and details. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">Til then, see you on the trails!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-28454400161763135222009-01-15T09:00:00.000-08:002009-01-15T09:46:03.618-08:00Say it isn't so...<a href="http://richardlouv.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291572949304015474" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 129px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz17fCLMQT6P5vJRJaMX2ilwCG7Gkao8v45A6D0PqHVebsXU6j7BgrvXgHgLvSeF1ZA2y4lUU8zqViv7aor8irjogwqsT1UMKi95y0Fiu60ZzGQoWdReb7JqZUTWduKCzki5MPhipypxI/s200/bookcover-home.jpeg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">By now, many of you have heard about Richard Louv and his ground-breaking book "Last Child in the Woods". He argues that children today are often disconnected from nature, opting instead for anyone of the myriad of technological choices in our plugged-in world: television, computers, video games, cell phones, and ipods. In the early pages of his book he recounts how a fourth grader expressed his preference to stay inside: "...cause that's where all the electrical outlets are."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;">Now this today from a Canadian newspaper:<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>The publisher of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has sent words like "beaver" and "dandelion" the way of the dodo bird. In the latest version of its dictionary for schoolchildren, Oxford University Press has cut nature terms such as <strong>heron, magpie, otter, acorn, clover, ivy, sycamore, willow and blackberry</strong>.In their place, the university publishing house has substituted more modern terms, like the electronic <strong>Blackberry, blog, MP3 player, voicemail and broadband.</strong></em></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Canadian wildlife artist and conservationist Robert Bateman, whose Get to Know Program has been inspiring children to go outdoors and "get to know" their wild neighbours for more than a decade, said the decision is telling kids that nature just isn't that important."This is another nail in the coffin of human beings being acquainted with nature," Bateman said in an interview with The Canadian Press<strong>."If you can't name things, how can you love them? And if you don't love them, then you're not going to care a hoot about protecting them or voting for issues that would protect them."</strong></span></em><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;">I particularly like that they have cut "blackberry"- the fruit/shrub, but added "Blackberry", the handheld. Read the full article here: <a href="http://www.childrenandnature.org/">http://www.childrenandnature.org/</a> . </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">What do you think? I'd vote for the dandelion any day.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVWrHS1-_oT2Es1Ur3XI0DGknbHtFL0yE1XUyRTR9wfmrAMtnZitZB4Bj6wC9EJQXuY7p7TG2NWxQVRijkSulWIA-kEm-c_HB-ai0V0R-F7LM7KJk1NV4OtBugkxp1tYqMf7lQae8m9g/s1600-h/dandelion.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291574590615184610" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 140px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVWrHS1-_oT2Es1Ur3XI0DGknbHtFL0yE1XUyRTR9wfmrAMtnZitZB4Bj6wC9EJQXuY7p7TG2NWxQVRijkSulWIA-kEm-c_HB-ai0V0R-F7LM7KJk1NV4OtBugkxp1tYqMf7lQae8m9g/s200/dandelion.jpg" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-45501515980113525342009-01-13T04:43:00.000-08:002009-01-13T04:56:08.252-08:00While setting up a blog yesterday, it occurred to me that blogging could be a very interesting way to record the different migratory species that people observe passing through the Conservancy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617133681822525621.post-16529416319699206172009-01-12T07:09:00.000-08:002009-01-15T09:00:11.191-08:00Greetings from the Creek<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibaodZ_FvE4IMagsY9N97Xtf0WvNcatX1vuF1drgvUW5oBhvx-KpzAWTcPYz6TUeAfYnWlBEeo6_9KC48YM3oVLfankhBDASxCmbbPm8ySiHU7vlhTuKdsGvZz41tAOmlaIhdeY2Oi4Tk/s1600-h/smallsnow.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290441433998351794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibaodZ_FvE4IMagsY9N97Xtf0WvNcatX1vuF1drgvUW5oBhvx-KpzAWTcPYz6TUeAfYnWlBEeo6_9KC48YM3oVLfankhBDASxCmbbPm8ySiHU7vlhTuKdsGvZz41tAOmlaIhdeY2Oi4Tk/s400/smallsnow.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpqKXASWw5ymKFdOyEWT8e1KObpyCV5SLHsZ14R-iJ_rU1fSU_gZxE9tSIY6L49Agk1fp-GT5fYJMA6j7JEju4F8YmKcmH-d4IpCR73aS2A_DIQgt1K4WWzZzq6-9942fwMoLh224DLk/s1600-h/smallsnow.JPG"><span style="color:#333333;"></span></a><span style="color:#333333;"> January is so much about new beginnings. The ideas and possibilities that stretch before us seem unlimited and so possible. </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><p><span style="color:#333333;"></span></p><br /><p><span style="color:#333333;"> The volunteers and staff of the Teaneck Creek Conservancy have returned from the holiday break renewed and energized. The months of 2009 stretch before us like an unmarked canvas and we stand paint brushes at the ready!<br /></span></p><br /><p><span style="color:#333333;"> If you are on our e-mail blast list you know that one of our "resolutions" in this new year is to better communicate with our stakeholders. As a 501 (c)(3) organization we recognize our commitment to serve you, our community.</span><br /></p><p><span style="color:#333333;"> Towards that end we are taking advantage of every tool at our disposal, including the wealth of opportunities that the Internet provides. Please visit our website, <span style="font-size:85%;">(</span></span><a href="http://www.teaneckcreek.org/"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#333333;">http://www.teaneckcreek.org/</span></a><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="font-size:85%;">),</span> sign up for our e-newsletter, and tune in here, at our new blog: Conversations at the Creek. Let us know what you would like to see happen at the Teaneck Creek Conservancy this year!</span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2