Weekly Wildflowers – Drakes Island Beach, Wells, ME
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Weekly Wildflowers – Cape Porpoise, Kennebunkport, ME
Well, another week with no frost here in Coastal Maine, so I’m managing another weekend’s worth of posts. I can’t imagine this will head into November, but at this point this year, I’ve stopped expecting anything.
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West of the Moon – Margi Preus
This is a really sweet story, inspired by a note in the author’s great –grandmother’s diary from when she emigrated to America from Norway. Her husband had asked her to take on a young woman from the ship as a maid, because she was young, and on her own. The author’s invented a back story
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Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater
In book three of the Raven Cycle, Blue Sargent and the Algionby boys are growing closer to finding Glendower, because by this point in the story, they’ve acquired powers. This book is about them accepting those powers – in many ways, it’s about growing up. Adam must accept that he’s a magician, but also that
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Garden Notes
Between the fact that we’re getting a nor’easter tonight (just with rain instead of snow, woo!), and that the official check out day for the garden is Wednesday, I pulled out a whole bunch of things from the community bed this morning. I did have one tomato plant left, but wanted that cage and stake
Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho
This book has a really interesting set up – a Regency England in a world with magic, where England has been losing their ability to work magic. The Sorcerer Royal, Sir Stephen, realized that there are plenty of other powerful magicians in the world, including Zacharias, a young slave that he bought because he sensed
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