Outdoors

Nature Notes After an abnormal spring and atypical summer, fall spins along the way we remember it. Crisp days, with clear views across the bays and lots of goldenrods along the roadside, starry nights with the honking of geese overhead, acorns falling on the roof as we dream. The Star Talks To Capt. Al Scannella Love Affair With Lisa Ann Locals Tourney: Bass Start Big The Montauk Locals striped bass surfcasting tournament got off to a big start last week, with the leader board already boasting a 42-and-a-half-pound bass caught by "Coast Guard Charlie" Flynn. Notes From Madoo Championship season is with us. Orders of the Golden Bat are struck and re-struck for the phenomenal McGwire and Sosa; William (he's just not my Bill) Jefferson Clinton is due any day now to receive the Pinocchean Award of the Black Tongue; while I, I nominate myself to the End End Order of the Snapped Trowel, having come down with Lyme disease: for the fourth time. St. Fiacre, pray for me.