This is a fun book – Riley’s summoned up to an island in Michigan to meet her aunt – the sister of her mother, who recently passed away. She’s hoping to learn more about her mother, but when she gets there, her aunt has already passed away. But she’s left messages behind, because Riley is […]
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Did some planting after work today. Not because the weather was great, but because it’s going to get worse, and I really need to get things in the ground by Monday at the latest. So everything I thought would ok in the ground went in today. The remaining small pots have totes at the ready
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.
Merck Forest and Farmland Center – Rupert, VT Read More »
Friday started out as a very foggy day along the coast.
Weekly Wildflowers – Mackworth Island SP, Falmouth, ME Read More »
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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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
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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