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On February 13th 2012, the effects of destroying the forest of trees, where now exists the barren landscape of Spencer’s Run, is ever apparent.

Did you know that a forest protects itself in more ways than one? Many residents of Fairfield County who have clear-cut New England woodlands to pave way for their exorbitant McMansions realize the effect of leaving but a few trees with each passing storm. Sure, we can complain about the electric company’s performance when our last trees fall across roadways, disabling power lines and halting the flow of traffic, but just like this last tree in Spencer’s Run, most often, the damage is caused by our own actions.  Continue Reading »

When the small children in the photo below started sledding inside Spencer’s Run, I had to leash up my dogs. We learned, years ago, our dogs like to bite those screaming bullets of fun. For kids and adults, sledding in the presence of our lovable family/home dogs is likely to result in torn winter clothing and 75lb. snowy paw prints all over. Our two sweet doggies have taken down a toboggan full of adults and make quick work of even the fastest flyers.

I didn’t point out the dangers to these responsible parents enjoying frigid family fun this time, but I did leave the video camera rolling to capture the inevitable. As a dog owner and parent of a young sledder I highly advise against sledding inside any dog run. Bringing children into a dog park adds responsibility for their behavior and a risk to their safety. Wrapping them up in fuzzy, furry winter wear and sending them screaming down a hill makes them a target for animal instincts. The fact they ‘got away with it’ this day was against the odds.

Look how gorgeous Waveny Park is early morning!

There’s little more enjoyable than a walk in the New England woods in Autumn. Waveny Park in New Canaan is a great place to capture the beauty of Nature.
Here are two photographs of the Sunrise in November, 2011.

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Enjoy.
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Beside the elimination of the native forest ecosystem, reduced habitat for wildlife, increased erosion, and nutrient loss from the soil the clear-cutting of Waveny’s woodlands for a dog park grows more costly with each passing storm.

As tropical storm Irene made her way through Spencer’s Run in Waveny Park she uprooted one of the few remaining trees and knocked a large branch onto the perimeter fence with crushing force.

View a small gallery of images from Sunday, August 28th, 2001

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According to an email sent out by spencersrun.org, The Waveny Park dog walk area will reopen today.  Continue Reading »

Waveny.net – looking forward…

With the temperate air of Spring arriving Waveny Park closed the popular dog walk area “Spencer’s Run”. Just as we’re coming out of a terribly cold winter, just when people feel comfortable enough to enjoy a walk in the park, just as the snow melted away enough for everyone to access Waveny Park’s dog walk, They closed it.

Those on the spencersrun.org email list or visitors to the website received this message:

Well, if the first sign of Spring is melting snow, then Springtime is on it’s way.

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A Waveny Park bench in Spencer’s Run is nearly covered in beautiful white after New England gets, not just a little, more snow.

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Good thing they took the garbage cans out of Spencer’s Run to save on labor expenses because a tree fell where one of them used to be conveniently placed. The fallen tree, now a few weeks on it’s side, is easily passed by for the daily visitors to Waveny’s Spencer’s Run canine social area.