Weekly Wildflowers – Crescent Beach State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME
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Weekly Wildflowers – Merrymeeting Fields Preserve, Woolwich, ME
The verbena is a bonus from the nearby power lines.
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Knitting Notes
Pattern: Villa by Bristol Ivy (Quince Quarterly Spring 2020 Level 1)Yarn: Quince Sparrow in the Fundi colorwayNeedles: Size 6 circs My Villa cowl is done! This definitely broke my brain at the beginning, but once I got the hang of the squares, and how it would fit together, I really enjoyed this knit. This
The Secret Lives of Color – Kassia St. Clair
This book covers the history of 75 different shades and hues of colors, grouped by specific colors, with an overview of each. (And as the author notes, narrowing it down to 75 was an arbitrary choice. I wish someone had paid her to do an encyclopedia length work.) This is formatted in a way that
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Nordic Tales
This is a lovely book – 16 folk tales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark. The translations are good, and the illustrations are lovely. I really liked getting different flavor of fairy tales. I had run into an adaptation of “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” before, so I was familiar
The Hazel Wood – Melissa Albert
Alice and her mother Ella are always moving. Ella’s mother Althea is an author with a cult following. Her book of fairy tales, called Tales from the Hinterland, has long been out of print, and is nearly impossible to find even in used bookstores because it’s so sought after. Alice has never met Althea –
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