Outdoors

Nature Notes For Christmas a friend gave the writer a bag of coffee grown in Guatemala under the shaded conditions naturally associated with tropical rain forests and tropical evergreen forests. The In Or Out Question "To let the cat out or keep it indoors? Oh, that is the eternal question!" laughs Dr. Claude Grosjean of Southampton's Olde Towne Animal Hospital. Penguins? Murr-be In the old days, she'd have yelled "Whale off!" upon sighting a leviathan cruising along the ocean beach. An Inch That Meant A Lot When Carl Safina of Islip was fined $50 after pleading guilty in East Hampton Town Justice Court to being in possession of an undersized striped bass back in September, it was reported as a matter of course in this newspaper - a minor infraction.