Snow Day!!!!
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood with snow! January 26, 2021 Chloe’s first snow day!
Coho has our very own science filmmaker!
When Christina & Paul became our neighbors last summer, Coho gained a science filmmaker. Her website is a treasure trove of beautifully photographed short films about fascinating subjects, all wrapped up in creativity and humor. You can see the trailer to her current project The future of Animals here. The Future of Animals does not […]
Celebrating our new neighbors from 2020!
In 2020, we welcomed our new neighbors, Christina Choate and Paul Cotter. They moved here from N. California. Paul immediately started working as a brewer at Mazama Brewing. Christina is a science/nature filmmaker (see the next post). Paul & Christina in Oregon 2020. Lovely wedding photo!
Black Lives Matter at Coho
At Coho we share in the collective grief, anger, frustration, helplessness and sadness over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others. Over the past 2 months, many Cohoots have attended rallies and marches for the Black Lives Matter movement. We have hosted informal and formal sharing circles about racism and […]
A tale of two nests
A nest of chickdees successfully fledged from a nestbox near the wildlife corridor. A couple of weeks later, a nest of tree swallows fledged from a bluebird box nearby. Cleaning out the nests brought an interesting insight: The swallow nest was vacated just two days before the clean out, the chickadee nest had sat empty […]
Fun Activity for Scientists and Gardeners of All Ages
While clearing the valerian “forest” on the bike barn path (also known as the snake bed), I was wishing something could be made out of the plant material, such as fabric. Then the thought occurred: hollow tubes, these could be mason bee homes! Anyone can make a simple structure for native bees out of valerian […]
Springtime beauty
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One of the two groups of devotees of the activity formerly known as crossfit who practice at Coho with social distancing (except for the family group featured last. Enjoy this quick view!
Yes, it really does sound like this at Coho…
Covid-19 has brought marimba practice sessions out of doors this spring. There are a number of marimba classes at Coho. Most days music drifts down the path. The Coho path really does sound like the video. This particular performance was for a high school music class taking place on-line. Raine and Katie asked Coho friends […]