Weekly Wildflowers – Mackworth Island State Park, Falmouth, ME
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Weekly Wildflowers – Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME
The state parks closest to Portland are back open. I can’t tell you how happy I’ve been to be able to go back to them. They’re some of my favorite spaces, and I’ve missed them.
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Snow White Learns Witchcraft – Theodora Goss
This book is a collection of reimagined fairy tales – some in verse, some in prose. Some of them are quite modern. I’m not the world’s biggest fan of verse, but really enjoyed these stories. I think my favorite story was “The Seven Shoes” – there’s a witch there, but it’s really just a tale
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Garden Notes
The iris are blooming, so it’s officially planting time! The community garden bed went in yesterday, on a very muggy morning. I got in two kinds of marigolds, three kinds of greens (broccoli greens, red Russian kale and dinosaur kale), broccoli, zinnias, runner beans, rudbeckia, three kinds of peppers (serrano, amazing and Jimmy Nardello),
A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
I’m not entirely sure what to think of this book. We start in colonial India, where Gemma is out with her mother, and witnesses her death. There’s very clearly something very sinister going on, but Gemma and her family go back to England, where officially, her mother died from cholera. Gemma is shipped off to
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Weekly Wildflowers – Wolfes Neck State Park, Freeport, ME
One of the real bummers about this Spring is that the state parks closest to me are closed, and have been since we started having to social distance. They’re some of my favorite places to go find the Spring forest ephemerals. I’ve really missed being able to go to my regular places. I feel
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Garden Notes
Everything went outside yesterday to harden off. It decided to be 80 degrees, so it seemed the thing to do. It’s going back into the 50s and 60s again after our one day flirt with summer, with at least one night close to freezing, so it’ll probably be a full two weeks before I
Knitting Notes
The Circinus socks are out. That pattern relies on keeping track of where you are in the same chart, at four different starting points. And it was fine, until I was into the middle of the foot chart (an added complication), realized I’d screwed up, tried to tink back, and still couldn’t figure
