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  • Saturday, December 8, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm – Deck The Halls, A Holiday House Tour

    Preparations are underway for Deck the Halls, A Holiday House Tour, which will feature five distinctly different Belmont homes decorated to celebrate the winter holidays. Sherry Jones and Sue Kelleher, event co-chairs, promise that there will be no shortage of creativity as Belmont Garden Club members and designers apply their talents to transform entry ways and living areas into inspiring holiday settings. Mark your calendars now and plan to bring friends and family on what promises to be a beautiful way to catch the holiday spirit. Deck the Halls, A Holiday House Tour will take place Saturday, December 8, 2012, from 11 AM until 4 PM. Tickets with maps may be purchased that day at the Belmont Library between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM. Profits from the $35 per person ticket sales will benefit the community gardens and deltas cared for by the Belmont Garden Club as well as the Marion Wilkins/Marie Gray Scholarship awarded each year to a Belmont resident pursuing a degree in Biology, Landscape Design, Horticulture, Environmental Studies, Forestry, or another closely related field.  Image from furniture.trendzona.com.

  • Saturday, January 29, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Naked Shrubs

    No leaves? No problem! Use a combination of branching patterns, bud and bark characteristics, habitat, persistent fruits, galls and marcescent leaves to identify shrubs in winter. The New England Wild Flower Society program on January 29 will begin at 10 am with a short session indoors. Then head out into MA Audubon Habitat’s 86 acres in Belmont for a close look at 15-20 native shrubs plus a couple of non-native invasives. You will end up back indoors for a twig or slide quiz and a cup of something hot. Review for those who have taken “Native New England Shrubs” and a good introduction to shrub ID in winter. Bring lunch and a hand lens if you have one. Roland “Boot” Boutwell leads, and the fee is $32 for NEWFS and Massachusetts Audubon Society members, $36 for non-members. Click on www.newfs.org to register.  Image of willow below from the Royal Horticultural Society.

  • Monday, October 5, 7:00 pm – “HomeGrown”

    There will be a screening of the movie “HomeGrown” on Monday, October 5 at 7 pm at Studio Cinema, 376 Trapelo Road in Belmont. The Dervaes family turned their yard in the heart of urban Pasadena into a small organic farm. While living “off the grid,” they harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter of an acre, make their own bio diesel, power their computers with the help of solar panels, and maintain a web site that gets 4,000 hits a day. The film is an intimate human portrait of what it’s like to live like Little House on the Prairie in the 21st Century.

    For more info: 617-484-3980 or www.belmontworldfilm.org.
    Tickets: $10, $8 students & seniors. Advance tickets available
    at the Studio Cinema box office or at www.mktix.com.

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