Garden Notes
I finally managed to get everything planted out this weekend. I may have kept the seedlings too long – we’ll have to see how those go, but at least everything’s in its final place for the year now, and we can just see how it goes.
Castle Tucker – Wiscasset, Maine
Yesterday was the open house day for Historic New England, so for something a little different, we headed up to Wiscasset, and Castle Tucker. This house was built in 1807, but maintains quite a bit of furniture and features added in the Victorian era by the Tucker family. It’s a really interesting place to
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Dust Girl – Sarah Zettel
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Callie lives with her mother in Kansas. It’s the 1930s, and nearly everyone else has left their town, due to the choking dust. But Callie’s mother won’t leave – Callie’s father had promised to come back to them, and Callie’s mother
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An Earthly Knight – Janet McNaughton
Here’s another great entry in the list of books that are mostly historical fiction, with just a touch of a fairy tale thrown in. In this case, it’s a combination of the stories “Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight” and “Tam Lin”. Lady Jeanette is the younger daughter of a Norman Lord living in
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Coastal Maine Botanical Garden – Lady Slippers
I also don’t remember there being that many lady slippers about. They were everywhere – even in the parking lot. That was lovely to see. The yellow and white flowers are from a planted bed in the wildflower garden, but all the pinks are from various locations around the Garden.
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Coastal Maine Botanical Garden – Trilliums
The last time I saw forest wildflowers at the CMBG was before the Children’s Garden had come into existence, so I was very surprised and pleased to run into the trillium bed in the back corner of the Children’s Garden. All of these pictures are from there, except the last shot, which is
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Knitting Notes
Here’s the sky scarf, as of 5/31/15. You can see in this picture that I was finally able to introduce the dark gray I bought to represent thunder. I’ve used it four times so far. For one thunderstorm that happened in the middle of the night, I decided to
Garden Notes
In which I include a single, pathetic image taken from inside my garage because it’s raining cats, dogs and probably a few sheep outside… I did make it out on Friday (took the day off) to buy some herbs: basil, Thai basil, lemon thyme, oregano, chocolate mint, nasturtiums and parsley, as well as a token
Parallel Myths – J. F. Bierlein
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. I started a tradition a few year back to try and read a more scholarly book in one of the Once Upon a Time challenge categories. Here’s this year’s selection – a collection and comparison of similar mythological themes across world cultures. If
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