It’s nice to see something is enjoying this summer’s weather. I have never seen so many blazing star plants out as we did yesterday. It’s funny for a plant that loves being in a sand plain, but it would appear that as long as it drains quickly, they enjoy the rain. Here’s the best my […]
Weekly Wildflowers – Kennebunk Plains Preserve, Kennebunk, ME Read More »
Mika is a witch, which is this story, means she was orphaned, like all witches. She was raised by Primrose, the head of the witches in England. They’re not really supposed to congregate together, so Mika was raised by a series of nannies, and now that she’s an adult, she sees the other witches once
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What a lovely story. Marra is the youngest of three princesses. Her oldest sister is her favorite, but Damia is married off to the prince of the neighboring kingdom, and tragically dies. Kania, the second sister, takes Damia’s place. Marra and Kania had never gotten along very well, but when Marra goes with their mother
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This was Sunday’s walk. I’d been meaning to go there for a while, because they have gentians this time of year, so when my mother mentioned that our local salvage store (just a bit up the road near the mall) had scored a haul from a rather nice yarn store, this pinged my memory bank
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The garden’s getting into high season. It’s probably not as good as it could be – we’re still getting a lot of rain. But the peppers are no longer sulking, and I only seem to have early blight on my tomatoes (knock on wood), which is easier to deal with than late blight.
This is a short story, and a nice twist on high school tropes. It’s told from the point of view of a young cop who’s gone undercover at the elite high school where a number of the popular girls have been killed. He’s gone in with the boys, and this story definitely becomes all about
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I caught Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries when it was still on Netflix, and enjoyed the hell out of it. I’ve been sitting on this book for a while. Definitely wish I’d read it earlier. I don’t want to say that the series was sanitized for television, exactly, because it did try to deal with mature
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Not a bad free book. This is the set up to a series set in more modern days, but leaning on Greek mythology for the characters. The author does take certain liberties with the parentage of her characters, but she talks about why at the end of this book, and I like where she’s going
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This book finally goes into the details of the origins of Valdemar. We’ve known it was founded by a nobleman from the far away Empire, and he summons the Companions after a prayer to all the gods he’s ever heard of – now we get the full story. Kordas, Duke of Valdemar, has worked very
Beyond – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
