Weekly Wildflower – Gilsland Farm, Falmouth, ME
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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
Garden Notes
Did my last bit of in house seed planting today – some runner beans, cucumbers and khuri squash, to give them a bit of a head start. It’s been so cold so far this Spring (we had snow last week!), they’ll probably need it.
Knitting Notes
My next project is Rich Ensor’s Circinus socks. I’m using Blue Moon Yarn Silky Sock in a yellow colorway, which is my Auntie B’s favorite color – guess who I’m making them for? The pattern is fun so far – it’s got a winding chart pattern around the leg which is fun to keep