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If memory serves me right, English settlement in South Jersey happened in the 1680's, maybe a decade earlier in a few cases. But the Finns/Swedes/Dutch were on the Delaware in the 1640's/1650's. They had at least temporary settlements in South Jersey; did they not leave a single marked grave...

Today Ro and I saw a bunch of blooming Purple Dead Nettle, Lamium purpureum, in farmer's field east of Lumberton

Ro and I heard carpenter frogs out at Whitesbog this afternoon. Isn't a bit early for 'em?

Incidentally, there are signs in the field to the north of the nest tree and smaller ones all along the parking lot's southern wooden border railing - warning of nesting eagles and area off0limits.

Ro took this picture earlier this week with her new camera and 600 mm lens. With some imagination there's an eagle in the left side of the nest.

This might be too easy, but since Ro and I have passed it a zillion times and I don't remember seeing it in here, at least we'll memorialize it.

Will we ever know???

Bob/Teegate: The press release confused me: is the acreage near Mt. Misery? The release says it is surrounded by the State Forest, so is it a totally surrounded inholding? In which case it wouldn't be very attractive to developers. But putting it beyond their filthy fingers is not a bad idea.

<http://www.njconservation.org/pressreleases/showpressrelease.cfm?prid=161>

Here's a robot that can tackle a PBX. VERY impressive engineering. Kinda scary if you're jumpy about things duplicating us.......

Ro found a newspaper release about the NYPL making available on-line 20,000 digitized maps in high definition. Here's the map link: <http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/new-york-public-library-puts-20000-hi-res-maps-online.html>. A bonanza for map freaks like me, but just another demand on...