Weekly Wildflowers – Merck Forest and Farmland Center, Rupert, VT
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Merck Forest and Farmland Center – Rupert, VT
Had a lovely walk on Saturday at the Merck Forest and Farmland Center. Went to see the lambs (the goats were more in play), and had a great wildflower walk in the surrounding trails. Did get minorly soaked by a passing rainstorm, but not enough to dampen the day.
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Weekly Wildflowers – Mackworth Island SP, Falmouth, ME
Friday started out as a very foggy day along the coast.
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The Spinster and the Free Maid – Amberley Martin
This series is a very interesting mash up of fairy tale tropes. In this story, we meet Cass, twin sister to Avalon, who we’ve met in the last book. Cass escaped the gingerbread house where Ava was held hostage. She never stopped looking for her sister, and has been traveling around doing odd jobs to
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Garden Notes
The brassicas are in the ground. Which really should have happened a couple weeks ago. My winter sown broccoli looks great, and I had a single kale and single romesco. So I bought some more kale to pad that out. But I had to deal with this: It took me two days to dig out
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries – Heather Fawcett
This was a nice spin on faeries. Emily Wilde is a professor at Cambridge who’s compiling an encyclopedia of the fae, world wide. At the start of our story, she’s arriving at a small town in a tiny Nordic country, hoping to meet their fae. Emily’s a bit prickly, so initially makes a bad impression
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Weekly Wildflowers – Saco Heath Preserve, Saco, ME
This was the wettest I’ve ever seen Saco Heath, and that’s saying something, since it’s a bog. The actual boardwalk area was fairly well flooded – see the cranberry above. (That was just below the level of the boardwalk – those areas are often dry.)
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Garden Notes
Garden activity is starting to ramp up. I got the dahlias out in the pots on my lunch break on Thursday. I did have to get rid of one (cactus Tamboro), which had molded. Only some had sprouted, and all of them had when I planted last year, so we’ll see if that bodes ill.