The Bosio family on the River Road have lost their one-year-old bloodhound named Frank. He has been missing since approximately August 15. Apparently he has been ranging along the west side of the River Road, recently sighted near where I live. He still has his red collar. Please keep your eye out for him. If you find him, or know where he is, call the family at 633-7278 or at work, 633-0601. They miss him very much.

Charleen Gonzalez of NYC is spending her fourth summer two weeks with Bar and Lisa Clarke and family on Cross Point Road, thanks to the Fresh Air Fund Friendly Town Program. Charleen will enter 6th grade this fall, and says science is her favorite subject. Her brother Kevin is also in the program, staying with a family elsewhere. The Fresh Air Fund enables inner city children from ages 7 to 18 to spend some time in country environments. If interested in hosting a child, the address is 633 Third Ave., 14th Floor, New York NY 10017, 800-367-0003, www.freshair.org. Or freshair@freshair.org. Bar Clarke is the principal of the Deck House School.

Thanks, Becky Benton, for e-mailing me a panoramic photo of the semi rolled over across Route 27, in plain view of her house, Tuesday, Aug. 19. She says she knew something was wrong when she and Chuck could actually converse, without raising their voices 5 decibels. The silence! No traffic!

The Friends of Fort Edgecomb are making their last encampment of the year at Fort Edgecomb Aug. 30 and 31, including an on-site meeting. The Sept. 3 meeting will be at 7 p.m. at Sheepscott River Ristorante (formerly known as the Sheepscot Inn).

The Rising Tide is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in September. If you were in on the beginnings of this food co-op, please share your memories with me for a special edition of the newsletter. But please share them fast, no later than Friday, Sept. 12, as we want to get the issue out a week before the Common Ground Fair, Sept. 19-21!

And to tie this item to Edgecomb, Krista Woodbridge on Englebrekt Road has recently joined the staff of The Rising Tide as Membership Coordinator.

Julie Deiley, on the Boothbay end of Route 27, gave me a call: "Dragonflies! Must be 30, maybe 50 of them, hovering and diving..." Remarkable! Newly morphed from their under-water nymph stage, they like to hover at nearly eye level, like planes in a mass holding pattern. The other night Julie was able to admire a huge owl swoop down from a tree, and then up into the woods. "Its wingspread must have been two feet!" And a moose has recently circled her house before disappearing back across the road. Which makes me wonder, how big is a moose's local range? I've carried several moose items, from Cross Point to Mill, and now in the Parsons Point area. Same moose, circulating? Or a loosely organized herd?

We ourselves have seen turkeys galore, with chicks, heads barely visible in the tall grass. Our tenants report seeing a doe and fawn in the orchard one morning last week.

Keep your eye on Mars! It is due to be at its closest to Earth next Saturday, Aug. 27, around 11 p.m. However, it will still be very visible for the following few weeks.

The Cameron household is graced this week by a visit from our younger daughter Bisi and her husband, Johnny Yee. Hardly seems two weeks ago that we were being wined and dined by them in Cincinnati. Haul out the red carpet! Shucks, it isn't long enough to roll down the driveway at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in The Boothbay Register, The Lincoln County News, The Wiscasset Newspaper, and at www.Edgecomb.org.