Weekly Wildflowers – Gilsland Farm, Falmouth, ME
Two days at Gilsland – dusk on Thursday and morning on Saturday.
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Knitting Notes
In other knitting news, I’m done with the first Pamina sock. Enjoying this way more than the first pattern I tried with this yarn. I don’t necessarily need to be babysat through a pattern, but I do enjoy not having to keep track of too many things at once. This pattern fits
Knitting Notes
Pattern: Rococo Shawl by Lana JoisYarn: Quince Phoebe in the Mars ColorwayNeedles: Size 7 circs I can finally publish pictures of the shawl I got to test knit starting back in March. It was just published in Quince and Co’s Shawls 2020 on the 11th. I happened to notice the test knit note in Quince’s
Od Magic – Patricia A. McKillip
Brendan Vetch journeys from his home in the mountains to the city – he’s been invited to be the new gardener at the wizard’s school there. It was a mysterious invitation, by a woman who wandered through town. When he gets there, he finds that he was invited by the wizard Od herself, the founder
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Weekly Wildflowers – Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME
The state parks closest to Portland are back open. I can’t tell you how happy I’ve been to be able to go back to them. They’re some of my favorite spaces, and I’ve missed them.
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Snow White Learns Witchcraft – Theodora Goss
This book is a collection of reimagined fairy tales – some in verse, some in prose. Some of them are quite modern. I’m not the world’s biggest fan of verse, but really enjoyed these stories. I think my favorite story was “The Seven Shoes” – there’s a witch there, but it’s really just a tale
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Garden Notes
The iris are blooming, so it’s officially planting time! The community garden bed went in yesterday, on a very muggy morning. I got in two kinds of marigolds, three kinds of greens (broccoli greens, red Russian kale and dinosaur kale), broccoli, zinnias, runner beans, rudbeckia, three kinds of peppers (serrano, amazing and Jimmy Nardello),