Rob Larsen

We were in the Blue Hills Reservation, coming down off of a hill and we saw a Scarlet Tanager high up in a tree. It's a very cool bird and has a really familiar song. Apparently there are some in the Arnold Arboretum, but since they stay so high up surface dwellers never get a chance to see them. Here's an example I found in user badjoby's flickr:

When I first saw the headline:

Laxative Ad Gets U.S. Parks Officials Fuming

I thought, what the heck is that all about?

Seems they don't want people to throw things into geysers and the ad implies that that is an okay thing to do. Sounds reasonable.