Peonies of Gilsland Farm
I should mention that things are all just starting to get going today. This time next week should be spectacular.
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Maine Audobon – Gilsland Farm, Falmouth, Maine
In which a trip to see peonies brings me an unexpected wildflower bonanza. Have I mentioned how lucky I am to have places like this just outside of my city?
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Spirits in the Wires – Charles de Lint
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. If you’ve read any of de Lint’s Newford books, you know he’s created an urban fantasy setting that incorporates parts of many world mythos (mythi? What is the plural for that word?). If a human mind has conceived it, it exists,
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Shadow Magic – Patricia C. Wrede
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Lady Altheia is kidnapped on the night of her birthday celebration. While her family frantically searches for her, she wakes up in the forest, and realizes her captors are the Lithmern- ancient enemies of Alkyra. What’s worse is that they’ve brought
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Garden Notes
I finally managed to get everything planted out this weekend. I may have kept the seedlings too long – we’ll have to see how those go, but at least everything’s in its final place for the year now, and we can just see how it goes.
Castle Tucker – Wiscasset, Maine
Yesterday was the open house day for Historic New England, so for something a little different, we headed up to Wiscasset, and Castle Tucker. This house was built in 1807, but maintains quite a bit of furniture and features added in the Victorian era by the Tucker family. It’s a really interesting place to
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Dust Girl – Sarah Zettel
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Callie lives with her mother in Kansas. It’s the 1930s, and nearly everyone else has left their town, due to the choking dust. But Callie’s mother won’t leave – Callie’s father had promised to come back to them, and Callie’s mother
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An Earthly Knight – Janet McNaughton
Here’s another great entry in the list of books that are mostly historical fiction, with just a touch of a fairy tale thrown in. In this case, it’s a combination of the stories “Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight” and “Tam Lin”. Lady Jeanette is the younger daughter of a Norman Lord living in
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Coastal Maine Botanical Garden – Lady Slippers
I also don’t remember there being that many lady slippers about. They were everywhere – even in the parking lot. That was lovely to see. The yellow and white flowers are from a planted bed in the wildflower garden, but all the pinks are from various locations around the Garden.
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