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Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 3/15/12

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Frog Song

Sharpen your ears: They’re out There quacking, snoring, growling and peeping

It’s loud out there in frog land.
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Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener - 3/15/12

John Carter

Beautiful effects and interplanetary drama isn’t enough to make up for a terrible lead

When confederate soldier John Carter (Taylor Kitsch: Friday Night Lights) realizes he’s on Mars, he is filled with wonder and amazement. I tell you this now, because it’s hard to decipher what Carter thinks or feels since Kitsch plays him with a slack-jawed blankness that makes you wonder if there’s enough air on the red planet to support brainwaves.
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Article - The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin; by Dr. Francis Gouin - 3/15/12

Planting with the Irish

This hurry-up winter is pushing spring

I am told that in Ireland, potatoes and peas are always planted on St. Patrick’s Day. Here in Southern Maryland, our soils are generally wet and cold and impossible to plow, rototill or cultivate in mid-March. This year may be different.
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Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle - 3/15/12

Hooray for an Early Spring!

The Ides of March brings the year’s best fishing

It was just the slightest bit of resistance.
I was working my minnow-tipped Tony spoon deep across a wide section of the Upper Choptank when that hint of hesitation made me lift my rod tip. With the feeling of yet more resistance, I set the hook and was rewarded by a heavy surge at the end of the line on my ultra-light spinning rod.

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Article - Where We Live by Steve Carr; by Steve Carr - 3/15/12

Sailing thru Storms and Doldrums

On Leg 4, the Volvo Ocean Racers leave China and head to New Zealand

When we last checked on The Volvo Ocean Race, 13 days from Abu Dhabi to China had ended with a tacking duel that pushed the exhausted crews to their limits. Leg 4 begins in Sanya Bay, homeport last-place boat, and ends in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Article - Arts and Culture; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 3/15/12

And the Winner Is …

Bowie Community Theater earns three Washington area awards

Is it worth your while to invest $20 plus a couple of hours of your time in community theater?
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Article - People; by Diana Beechener - 3/15/12

Women’s Work

Actress Mary Ann Jung breathes life into women’s history

It’s business as usual at the Pasadena Senior Center, until Mary Ann Jung walks in waving a knife.
“Julia Child presents the chicken sisters,” Jung trills in Child’s unmistakable accent. Whipping the coverlet off a table, she reveals raw chickens of several sizes.
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Article - The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin; by Dr. Francis Gouin - 3/8/12

Rushing Spring

Here’s how to get early indoor flowering

Can’t wait for spring?
   Bring spring indoors, and you can enjoy early flowers.
   Pussy willow can be cut and brought indoors for forcing any time after the middle of January.
   Force forsythia into flowering next, starting as early as February.
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Article - Places; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 3/8/12

Looking for a Bayfront Vacation Rental?

Cove Point Lighthouse to open for overnight accommodations

Flappers and molls, zoot-suiters and swells resurrected the Roaring ’20s at Calvert Marine Museum’s Bugeye Ball. Over 200 museum supporters styled and gambled, drank, danced and devoured the cuisine of Ken Upton’s Creative Kitchen Annapolis.
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Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 3/8/12

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Swan Song

Tundra swans prepare for their annual flight north

Chesapeake Country waterways are swan lakes from November to March, as migratory tundra swans weighing as much as 20 pounds move in.
Some 18,000 of the big birds make Maryland their home. Dabblers, they tip bottom-up to feed on Bay grasses and small clams. They like winter wheat, barley and rye, too, and some of the swans will feed in fields.
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