Pattern: Lepidoptora Mitts by Allison Van ZandtYarn: Malabrigo Sock in the Playa colorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs I’m finding it funny how much darker these mitts look than the other ones I made with the same yarn – funny how a particular pattern can change a variegated skein like that. I also did a little sweater ornament, and […]
Headed down to the Island from my father’s place for the first time in a long while. Sadly, it was raining most of the day, but we made the most of the time between the raindrops.
Cadillac Mountain – Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, ME Read More »
I feel like a garden update is long overdue, but I usually do those when I have new pictures, and I have nothing new pictorially to report. April was really cool, and really wet. May so far has been a bit better, but still on the cool side. So my seedlings are still hanging
Marina had her fifth child during a terrible winter, and did not survive after the birth. But she was clear to her husband that this daughter was her choice – a daughter to be like her grandmother, a mysterious woman who appeared from nowhere and married a prince. From the beginning, Vasya is a bit
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Here’s another specific thing I went looking for (trilliums) that I was too early for. It is at least an improvement over the last time I was here, which was after the March of four nor’easters, when all of the volunteer run places took a while to be able to clear out all the downed
Weekly Wildflowers – Mast Landing Audubon Sanctuary, Freeport, ME Read More »
I based this weekend’s plans on having gone to Wolfes Neck a week from now last year, and seeing the bluebead lilies had already gone by. Who knew I had to take into account one of the coolest springs we’d had in a while for my plans. Oh well. There’s always next year. At least
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