Cobscook Bay State Park is not much further up Route 1 than the turn off to Lubec. There’s some lovely shoreline scenery in what’s starting to be the land of more extreme tides. (Cobscook is the local tribe’s word for boiling tides.) One cool feature is you can go clamming – there was a family […]
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Jasper Beach is not a state park – it’s owned and managed by the town of Machiasport. It’s not even labelled in our slightly older version of the Delorme Maine Gazetter (look for Howard Cove), but it is is sign-posted from Route 1 in Machias, and it’s worth the detour. It’s an interesting glacial feature
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Oh, have I mentioned that our main day out was foggy, or rainy, or drizzly, or some combination of those? There was some blue sky, I swear. You can see it in the fourth picture, right? Anyway, Roque Bluffs has both an ocean beach, and a pond to swim in, which just may make it
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This is a lovely little pocket beach, with amazing views of Penobscot Bay, just out of South Thomaston village. Wasn’t even very busy when we stopped by (this is apparently the first year they’ve even bothered with a ranger).
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Last weekend, we were up in Ellsworth visiting my father. On our way up and back, and instead of braving the insanity that is Mount Desert Island in August, we did a big drive to fill up the stamps in our State Park Passport book with Midcoast and Downeast parks. There will be photos to
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This ebook is a compilation of three short stories that appear in different anthologies. Mister Fitz is an animate puppet, who was once the nursemaid to Sir Hereward, but has now become his companion as they travel to rid the world of godlets that are trying to invade from a different dimension. Since they’re just
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Pattern: Bobcap by Mary KeenanYarn: Dalegarn FalkNeedles: Size 6 circs and DPNs I got paranoid and made the medium size, and I totally could have pulled off the large. So my primary aim, of using up this yarn, was not accomplished. Oh well. I at least got rid of the ends, and have
In this third Brother Cadfael book, a local landowner has given his estate to the Abbey, in exchange for them taking care of him and his wife for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately, on one of his first nights there, he is murdered, killed by one of Brother Cadfael’s potions, that is normally used
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Still trying to use up the Dalegarn Falk yarn. Here’s the Bobcat pattern by Mary Keenan. Which I have already messed up, so will be ripping out. I’m beginning to think this yarn is cursed.
I actually came to Mercedes Lackey’s books through the Tarma and Kethry books (I remember liking the covers), which are actually not so great a gateway. The first book (The Oathbound) isn’t really their first story – it’s a short story that appears in one of the Sword and Sorceress anthologies. I found these when
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