Bug Light Park – South Portland, ME
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It Really is October, I swear…
And this was last week. The yellow cherry is still happily blooming away. That one has taken a marked blightly turn this week (the red’s been blighty for a while), but we’re not seeing any frosts in the forecast, so no reason to think they won’t keep producing merrily away. It’s just wrong, I tell
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Fort McClary – Kittery, ME
Yesterday was the kind of crazy beautiful Fall day that makes this my favorite season. It was really warm (record breaking in Portland, in fact), which was a slightly strange juxtaposition with the leaves that have started to turn. Still, I’ll take it when I can get it.
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Sewing Notes
I went as far as I could with the tee shirt muslin. It was mostly a success. I’ve verified that the pattern fit, and I identified a few things I could do at set up to make it easier to put together going forward. I do have to revisit hemming. There
The Expats – Chris Pavone
Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. Kate’s husband has been given a fantastic opportunity to work for a bank in Luxembourg, an opportunity so fantastic that Kate quits her job, in order to take care of their two kids on this adventure of a lifetime. Which seems perfectly normal, except that Kate works for
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Sewing Notes
I had made a bag to go with my coworker Mary’s Evenstar shawl, which ended up being the perfect size to fit the family silver vase she was giving to his son and soon to be wife for their wedding. Since I’ve been experimenting with bag design, I told her I’d be
Garden Notes
I did a little clean up yesterday, which mostly involved pulling out the basil. It’s been warm enough that most things are still going strong, but the basil was definitely looking worse for the wear. The cherry tomatoes are still producing. We had a near frost last week (most of the state frosted, but we
Furthur Adventures in Domescity
I love how those lovely red crab apples created a psychedelic pink juice (which sadly the camera did not do justice too), and then calmed down into a lovely red jelly. (Which the camera also did not do justice too – it look much more pink in the photo.) This is the Old Fashioned Crab
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A Civil Contract – Georgette Heyer
Read for the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge. Adam Deveril had always been army mad, and though he’s the heir to his father, the Viscount Lynton, his father (an associate of the Prince Regent’s, and if you know your history, you know what kind of men he liked to hang out with) never really bothered to
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Apple Picking – Bowdoin, ME
My sister and her BF were in from California last week, and since he’s a native Southern Californian, we had to bring him apple picking. I did get some regular old apples, but my big haul were some lovely, bright red crab apples, with which I will be making jelly at some point during the
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