Outdoors

Nature Notes It's been an adventure this week, let me tell you. The writer's house was hit by lightning on Saturday at 3:19 in the afternoon, a neighbor's lighting fixtures popped out of the wall at about the same time, another neighbor's submersible pump was hit and rendered nonfunctional. Around The Garden There's a kind of Sag Harbor house that stops you in your tracks when you walk past it, though its rose-covered fence hides it effectively from anyone going by in a car. Plenty To Walk Out About The South Fork Natural History Society is offering a traipse through the wildflowers on Saturday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Feast For Stripers, Blues Bait fish have been attacking the East End of the South Fork during the week. On the ocean side, spearing were being pushed up onto the beach by feeding bluefish. They were helped by the surf spawned by the seemingly endless string of storms that started moving through early last week, the same waves and weather that kept most boaters at bay.