Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, has decided he must marry, and has presented his mother with a rather exacting list of things he needs in this wife. Naturally, this flies out the window when he meets Phoebe Marlow. Pheobe’s the daughter of a dear friend of his mother’s, but she’s not necessarily high society. And […]
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Locations: Kittery Outlets, Kittery, MEOld Parsonage, Newington, NHHamilton House, South Berwick, ME
Weekly Wildflowers- Around Southern Maine and Seacoast New Hampshire Read More »
Spring clean up is finally done. I got two more bags of leaves and other detritus out of the nooks and crannies of the back yard. The herbs aren’t doing much yet – the lemon thyme is starting to stir, and I’ve got just a bit of mint in one of the three pots.
This is the earliest we’ve ever stopped by Hamilton House, and I was delighted to find that there are blue squill and grape hyacinth (my two favorite Spring garden flowers) naturalized down the slopes toward the Salmon River. I cannot tell you how happy it made me to see all that blue. The
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We’re finally past mud season. Not that things are perfect yet, but there are blooms! Pretty much everywhere. (Most of the above came from the overflow parking lot at the Kittery Outlets, which was not where I was expecting to have a nice little wildflower walk.)
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Pattern: Pussyhat, Four Gauges, in the Round, by Sarah KellerYarn: Valley Yarns Northampton in the Bright Pink colorwayNeedles: Size 8 circs and DPNs Just a quick little project, for a special request to have one on hand in case they’re needed again. I had enough yarn to make one more that was almost as
This book is an adaptation of two fairy tales called “Scurvyhead” and “Sir Goldenhair”, which both feature a young man named Petit Jean, who goes out into the world to make his fortune. Here, we have young Duncan, who realizes one day that he does not have to put up with the constant beatings from
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First post of the season. It’s definitely early (and a late early), but things are starting to bloom.
Spring Preview – Crescent Beach State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME Read More »
Rhea is the miller’s daughter, and when a lord asks for her hand in marriage, she and her family don’t feel like they can say no. Lord Crevan demands that she visit his manor before the wedding, and there she finds out that he is a sorcerer, and that his other six wives all still
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Having done a concentration on the ecological side of biology in college (I like large scale communities. Microbiology bores me, though I do recognize its importance.), this was an interesting read. I think today, if you talked to a lot of urban dwellers (I’m firmly in that camp), and asked them their view on wilderness,
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