This is one of my exception cultivated garden posts, because this botanical garden does make a point to feature native plants. And some of these are actually natives once you get outside of the cultivated areas.
Weekly Wildflowers – Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, Boothbay, ME Read More »
I really liked the premise of this book – set in Regency times (in a slightly alternate world where the Prince of Wales is not yet regent, and married differently than in our own timeline), Sarah Tolerance is a fallen woman. She was ruined by her family’s fencing master, and had a lovely life with
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I aspire to have as a good of retirement output as Bujold does. I snap these novellas up as soon as I see them – they’re just such a great read. This story isn’t really revolutionary – Pen’s journeying into the countryside to find a forgotten shrine to his god, the Bastard. In a small
Penric and the Bandit – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while – I think it was a Kindle First Reads book, back when we actually had Prime. It’s a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in the Bennet women’s house at Longbourn College, which reminds me quite a bit of my New England liberal arts college experience,
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That was an interesting walk. It’s normally beach pea heaven down on the shore, but with the storms over the winter, a lot of that area has been flattened out. The bindweed is in heaven. I’ll be interested to see what this does over the next couple of years.
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A mere year and a half after I started, I have finished chart #1 of the full coverage Boreas cross stitch painting reproduction. (This is a couple trees on the horizon, since you really can’t tell without context.) It took me a while to finally get the right set up to hold this – it’s
Interesting magical world – it’s based on Jewish magical mythology, where magic was brought in based on heritage (shocker – there are a lot more people of Jewish decent than you’d think), but it’s an all or nothing thing. Ashira Cohen always thought she as mundane, even having a Nefesh father. She’s made a life
Blood and Ash – Deborah Wilde Read More »
