It Was Where?
I need to give a special mention to this hawkweed – it was wedged into a crack on the wall just below the balcony of my ninth floor hotel room in Montreal. This should be the picture dictionary definition of a plant generalist.
Jardin Botanique Montreal – Outdoor Gardens
On Saturday (6/17), we headed out to the botanical garden, which was an easy subway ride from our hotel. The place is huge – there’s also an insectarium and a biodome you can visit – I don’t know how people do it. We managed maybe a quarter of the outside gardens, and
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Weekly Wildflowers – Along Route 302 in Vermont
Actual picture date: 6/15/17. These pictures were taken on the side of route 302, somewhere on the more eastern side of Vermont. Because we have apparently become those people that will pull over to take pictures. (Though only when there’s really no traffic. We do have some standards.)
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Weekly Wildflowers – Kancamagus Highway, New Hampshire
Locations: Lower Falls, Rocky Gorge, and the CL Graham scenic overlook. Actual picture date: 6/15/17.
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Governor’s Garden at the Chateau Ramezay – Montreal, QC
This garden was a really cool find – it’s attached to the Chateau Ramezay Museum and Historic site, but had free access. It’s set up with sections reminiscent of an earlier 18th century garden in New France. There’s a potager, an orchard and ornamental sections. I was so excited to see this – it’s
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Old Montreal and Cirque du Soleil
Here’s where the vacation became international – on Friday morning, we headed up to Montreal. (It’s an easy two hour drive from Burlington. What ended up not being easy was finding our hotel, since they’re rebuilding the main bridge over the St. Lawrence, and the road closures are epic, and random.) We stayed
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Burlington, VT
We ended the first day in Burlington, Vermont. After a fantastic dinner at the Farmhouse Tap and Grill (which used to be the McDonald’s that BF depended on for quick food during his college radio dj days), we wandered down to the waterfront of Lake Champlain, where we promptly saw a random beaver swimming
Along the Kancamagus Highway, New Hampshire
Here’s day one of last long weekend’s international road trip. Otherwise known as NH route 112, the Kancamagus winds through a portion of the White Mountain National Forest. There are several different stop offs along the way – the above includes Lower Falls, Rocky Gorge, and the CL Graham scenic overlook.
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A Sampler of Wayside Herbs – Barbara Pond
This book was published out of Connecticut in 1974. I tend not to go for reference books that old, but when I saw this in a used bookstore on Cape Cod, I had to pick it up, since the name of my wildflower blog is Wayside Flowers. The serendipity was a little bit too much
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