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Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge – Sudbury, MA

New England / Megan

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Pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata

Weekly Wildflowers – Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Sudbury, MA

Aquatic, Meadow, Wayside Flowers, Wetland / Megan

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Red Clover, Trifolium pratense

Weekly Wildflowers – Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME

Disturbed Habitat, Wayside Flowers, Woodland / Megan

This appears to be in the year I’ll constantly find myself at Two Lights – this Friday, it was for my work summer outing.

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Beacon Hill, Boston

Beacon Hill – Boston, MA

New England / Megan

Our second Historic New England stop was Otis House, which sits right at the foot of Beacon Hill, in Boston.    What I didn’t know about Beacon Hill was that it was once one of three mountains in this part of Boston.  The other two were taken apart for fill, and Beacon Hill itself had about

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Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum – Salem, MA

New England / Megan

It being so hot, we ended the day in the air conditioning, and checked out the Peabody Essex Museum, which has a very eclectic collection ranging from local maritime art to the art of the Far East.   (The roots of the museum are the East India Marine Company, founded by local ship captains.) It’s

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Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House

Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House – Gloucester, MA

New England / Megan

We joined Historic New England last year (our gateway being Hamilton House).     We’ve worked our way through several Maine and New Hampshire properties, and decided to take advantage of a friend’s cookout in the Boston area to add a few Massachusetts properties to the list.     The first was Beauport, which ended up being

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old books

Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Steve Hockensmith

At Home, Reading / Megan

This book is a prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I only picked it up because I didn’t have to pay for anything.   I’ll admit to having no expectations, but it was actually not too bad. It’s a couple years before the action of Pride and Prejudice, and the Bennett girls have

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Sour cherry jam

Further Adventures in Domesticity

At Home, Cooking / Megan

I haven’t done any canning in ages – and still haven’t.   But my mother got two quart sized take out containers of sour cherries right before she was going to leave the state, so she left them with me.    I ended using David Lebovitz’s No Recipe Cherry Jam because I didn’t have enough fruit to

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Staghorn Sumac, Rhus hirta

Staghorn Sumac

Disturbed Habitat, Plant Profiles, Wayside Flowers, Woodland / Megan

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Carolina Sea Lavender, Limonium carolinianum

Weekly Wildflowers – Scarborough Marsh, Scarborough, ME

Disturbed Habitat, Salt Marsh, Wayside Flowers, Wetland / Megan

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