Portsmouth, NH
Portsmouth has a neat Halloween display this year, though they do make for a rather creepy audience for an alfresco dinner. Granted, that’s not something you can usually plan for in October.
Garden Notes
It’s been warm so far this October. Like, I’m currently wearing shorts, and had dinner outside last night warm. So things are still growing better than they really should be. Last weekend, I pulled out one of the two cherry tomatoes in the side garden – the Sweet 100’s had succumbed to blight.
Garden Notes
Harvest notes: Pictures are from 10/5, 10/8 (2), 10/10 and 10/15. (Picture quality is suffering since it’s now so much darker after work.)I pulled out all the poblanos that were left on the plants yesterday. They haven’t gotten any bigger, so I figured better safe than sorry about this point.
An Excellent Mystery – Ellis Peters
This Brother Cadfael book actually isn’t about a murder, for a change. After Winchester was sacked as part of the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, the brothers of the Benedictine monastery there have scattered to neighboring monasteries. Brothers Humilis and Fidelis have come to Shrewsbury, which is near where Brother Humilis
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Shadows of Self – Brandon Sanderson
This is the second book of the second Mistborn trilogy, set three hundred years after the last trilogy. The technology of the world has come a long way, but this book especially references back to what happened in the previous trilogy (the first book of this series was lacking that to some degree). I really
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Oak and Ash and Thorn – Peter Fiennes
Having recently read a book about the American view of wilderness, it was very interesting to get a contemporary British view – and it very much makes me appreciate what I have in my fairly well forested state. This is an interesting book – if you’re looking for scientific details of Britain’s forest, you won’t
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Weekly Wildflowers – Cape Cod, MA
Locations:Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Wellfleet, MAFirst Encounter Beach, Eastham, MANauset Beach, Orleans, MA
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Nauset Beach – Orleans, MA
On the underside of the arm. In hindsight, I really should have gotten some pictures of the multitude of shark warnings.
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First Encounter Beach – Eastham, MA
So named because was the first place the folks from the Mayflower encountered the locals. And where we see the difference between the Atlantic side, and the bay side…
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Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore – Wellfleet, MA
Or, the incredible beauty of a whole lot of sand.
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