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Gaywings, Polygala paucifolia

Weekly Wildflowers – Wolfes Neck Woods State Park, Freeport, ME

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Jack in the Pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum

Weekly Wildflowers – Mackworth Island SP, Falmouth, ME

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Friday started out as a very foggy day along the coast.

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The Spinster and the Free Maid – Amberley Martin

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This series is a very interesting mash up of fairy tale tropes. In this story, we meet Cass, twin sister to Avalon, who we’ve met in the last book. Cass escaped the gingerbread house where Ava was held hostage. She never stopped looking for her sister, and has been traveling around doing odd jobs to

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Back Bed

Garden Notes

Leave a Comment / At Home, Gardening / Megan

The brassicas are in the ground. Which really should have happened a couple weeks ago. My winter sown broccoli looks great, and I had a single kale and single romesco. So I bought some more kale to pad that out. But I had to deal with this: It took me two days to dig out

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books

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries – Heather Fawcett

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This was a nice spin on faeries. Emily Wilde is a professor at Cambridge who’s compiling an encyclopedia of the fae, world wide. At the start of our story, she’s arriving at a small town in a tiny Nordic country, hoping to meet their fae. Emily’s a bit prickly, so initially makes a bad impression

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Painted Trillium, Trillium undulatum

Weekly Wildflowers – Saco Heath Preserve, Saco, ME

Leave a Comment / Bog, Wayside Flowers, Woodland / Megan

This was the wettest I’ve ever seen Saco Heath, and that’s saying something, since it’s a bog. The actual boardwalk area was fairly well flooded – see the cranberry above. (That was just below the level of the boardwalk – those areas are often dry.)

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Seedlings

Garden Notes

Leave a Comment / At Home, Gardening / Megan

Garden activity is starting to ramp up. I got the dahlias out in the pots on my lunch break on Thursday. I did have to get rid of one (cactus Tamboro), which had molded. Only some had sprouted, and all of them had when I planted last year, so we’ll see if that bodes ill.

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Seedling haul

Garden Notes

Leave a Comment / At Home, Gardening / Megan

First seedling haul of the season: the yellow dahlia we like for the front bed, bidens (also for the front bed), basil, oregano and alyssum. I also got some zucchini seeds. They’re outside for now, but I will be keeping an eye out to make sure it doesn’t get too cold at night.

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Trout Lily, Erythronium americanum

Weekly Wildflowers – Highland Farm Preserve, York, ME

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Bonus flowers from the I95/Route 1 Rest Stop in Kittery, ME

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Deal with the Devil – Kit Rocha

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I’m mildly annoyed with myself, for no good reason. I thought this had been a free Kindle deal, and was happy that I’d found one I actually enjoyed. And it turns out I paid for it, so I’m guess I’m annoyed that I know my own tastes and paid for a book I’d enjoy. I’m

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