The Vivid blanket progresses. I’d gotten to my original goal – four squares for each of the six colors – on Friday night. In laying them out today, I’m going to try and go for one more square in each color (which I’m fairly sure I have enough for, but I’ll know as soon as […]
I was reading an article about e-books recently, and it got me thinking about how e-books were impacting my own reading/book collecting tendencies. And I do think they are, but probably not in the way a lot of people would think about it. Travel: I am a firm believer that it’s not a vacation if
After plowing through Slater’s Ripe, I had to go back and get the book he wrote before that, which dealt with vegetables, instead of fruit. And I again found this to be one of the rare cookbooks I can read from cover to cover. However, it’s a little less useful to me than Ripe was,
Tender: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch – Nigel Slater Read More »
Orrec lives in the Uplands, a poor region of farms that hides a people with extraordinary gifts. Each family’s gift is different. Orrec’s family’s gift if Unmaking, and his gift is untamed. He is forced to blindfold his eyes so he doesn’t destroy the people he loves. That’s really an aside to this book. The
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This is a serious, scholarly book about the 14th century, but written in such an approachable manner that anyone interested in this time period should be able to read it. To illustrate the time period, the author settles on one man to trace how his life was impacted by all the changes of this century.
A Distant Mirror – Barbara W. Tuchman Read More »
Locations: Sayward Wheeler HouseSteedman Woods Reserve
Weekly Wildflowers – York Harbor, ME Read More »
Wiggly Bridge/Steedman Woods, York, MEYork Harbor, MESayward Wheeler House, York, ME“For Those Who Sailed Here to Find a New Life” – Four Tree Island, Portsmouth, NH
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