Pattern: Citadel by Beata Jezek Yarn: Knit Picks Capra in the Pesto colorway and Reywa Fibers Embrace in the Festival colorway Needles: Size 5 circs and DPNs This hat promises to be warm – it’s a cashmere and yak hybrid, and the double layering seems promising. Here’s hoping I’ve finally found an airtight hat […]
The about the author section in this book owns to the fact that the author wrote it as an answer to what if there were fantastical elements underlying the social conventions that restrained woman in Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte books. Ivy Lockwell is the oldest of three sisters. Their father was once
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We were up here in order to show a friend from Arizona some good, quintessential Maine coast. And we happened upon one of the best spring tides I’ve ever seen in Casco Bay. There’s a little island just off the park coast with an osprey nest – you could have walked
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I didn’t think I’d get this book. I won it through EarlyReviewers back in November. I was totally psyched – I have very warm memories of my mother reading the Little House books to my sister and me when we were little. You generally don’t get those books for at least a month
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Yarrow Achillea millefolium Other names: Common Yarrow, plumajillo, gordaldo, nosebleed plant, old man’s pepper, devil’s nettle, sanguinary, milfoil, soldier’s woundwort, thousand-leaf, thousand-seal, arrowroot, bad man’s plaything, bloodwort, carpenter’s weed, death flower, eerie, field hops, gearwe, hundred leaved grass, knight’s milefoil, knyghten, milefolium, millefoil, noble yarrow, old man’s mustard, seven year’s love, snake’s grass, soldier, stanchweed,
Spotted Jewelweed Impatiens capensisOther names: orange jewelweed, spotted touch-me-not, orange balsamFamily: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)Range: Saskatchewan to Newfoundland; south to Georgia; west to Oklahoma; north to Missouri.Native: NativeNative Habitat: Shaded wetlands. Bloom Time: July to October Notes: This family has only two genera: Impatiens (more than a thousand species) and Hydrocera (1 species). What
Aren’t those just the cutest mutant carrots ever? And I have beets! (And really, beet greens!) I harvested both of these containers because they were really getting in the way of me getting to the tomato pots. Plus, since I’m not the kind of person willing to start my carrot bed
Queen Anne’s Lace Daucus carotaOther names: wild carrot, bird’s nest, bishop’s lace Family: Apiaceae (Carrot Family) Range: Native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest Asia. Introduced to North America and Australia. It is considered invasive in some states. Native: Introduced Native Habitat: Thickets, grassland, and waste areas. Bloom Time: Summer Notes: This
