It poured on our way up last Sunday to Ellsworth, and the next day started rainy. Not a bad day to spend hanging out at camp. It even dried out a bit late in the afternoon so I could snap some pictures before the black flies came back out.
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I’m quite a bit behind posting, as my sister, BIL and my six-month-old niece have been in Maine for the past week and a few days. This was baby’s first trip to the Atlantic Ocean, last Saturday (the 13th). It was also the first time I remember seeing truly wild columbine.
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Kate Davies lives in an Atlanta where magic and technology switch back and forth in waves – you never know which one will be working at any given time (people have come up with great adaptations to make sure they can function in either kind of wave). Kate’s a mercenary, even though it’s clear she
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Risuko’s father was a samarai, but his death has left her family poor. And that is why Risuko’s mother sells her to Lady Chiyome. However, she soon finds that the Lady has plans for her – she’s brought back to the school that Lady Chiyome started to train shrine maidens – but they’re more than
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Jess Brightwell lives in London in an alternate world where the library in Alexandria was never destroyed. It found a way to transmits copies of books everywhere, and now it controls all the knowledge in the world. Jess’s family are smugglers – obtaining original books for buyers who can afford them. Jess has never shown
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Merrily Watkins has begun her first real posting as a vicar – it’s in the small village of Lewardine, and she quickly finds herself in the middle of a neighborhood drama involving a play about a long dead vicar in the same church, who was accused of being a witch. Add in a teenage daughter
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Also known as the great test for my new rain coat. Or, yet another time we went to Cape Cod with Weather! It did rain, but it was a lovely trip. The above pictures are over two days. We made it all the way out to P-town, and then had
Microclimate cracks me up. Good thing I got to see blooming trout lilies last week…
Mackworth Island State Park – Falmouth, ME Read More »
I am so annoyed that I have to wait for the next book in this series. The last book, Foxglove Summer, was a bit of an interlude from the main story – who is the Faceless Man, and why is he fighting against the Folly? Well, interlude’s over, and Peter Grant’s very much back in
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