Weekly Wildflowers – Gilsland Farm, Falmouth, ME
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Weekly Wildflowers – Highland Farm Preserve, York, ME
An hour south of me, in the land where they have had a couple of shots of normal May weather before this weekend, I found plenty of columbine! The trout lilies went by before I could see them, but I got regular Solomon’s seal and false Solomon’s seal, more violets, my favorite maple, and a
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Marked in Flesh – Anne Bishop
This book brings the conflict between the Humans First and Last movement and the Others to a head. And it’s not pretty. The Elders of the Others have finally taken notice, and having the Elemental forces of the earth decide they’ve seen enough is very bad. I really love these books more than I feel
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Weekly Wildflowers – Wolfes Neck Woods State Park, Freeport, ME
This is apparently the year of the Goldthread – it was all over both sites I visited this weekend, as well as my local walk last weekend. It does like it a little damp, and we’ve definitely been providing those conditions this week. As you can see, things are quite behind. We’re having our first
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Weekly Wildflowers – Hamilton Audubon Sanctuary, West Bath, ME
It’s definitely been slow this year. This is the weekend I usually take an extra day off for to make sure I can visit as many woodland wildflower sites as possible, and today’s choices closer to home were not as far along as they could have been. This sanctuary is on the ocean in the
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Darksight Dare – Lois McMaster Bujold
Penric and Desdemona are called to a small town where a demon has been possessed by two hedge sorceresses in a row – a rare occurrence, since these kind of wild pairings can often go wrong. And this one has gone wrong. The demon doesn’t know how to vent its chaos, and has caused the
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Knitting Notes
Pattern: Sonsie Hat by Kate Davies Designs Yarn: Ewingston Shetland Wool and Wing & A Prayer Farm Thelma & Louise DK Needles: Size 5 circs and size 6 circs and DPNs I first knit this hat when the pattern came out last year, but in the meantime, KDD did a version in some hand dyed
Garden Notes
We are in peak violet and wild strawberry cover season in the back yard – it makes me happy every time I look out the back windows. The rest of my dahlias came in on Thursday, so I had them all planted by Friday. And one of the early batch has sprouted! I am glad