This is the kind of book you can point to when some sneering “literary writing only” nitwit tries to tell you that genre fiction can’t address larger themes or important messages. In this book, the planet of New Tahiti (as the Earth human refer to it) already has an indigenous population of humans that happen […]
The Word for World is Forest – Ursula K. LeGuin Read More »
So I really want some good boot socks. And since I have calves of large size, I’m only going to get them by making them myself. So here’s my attempt: Purl Soho’s Little Cable Knee Highs, in Knit Picks Stroll Tweed in the Down Heather colorway. These are toe up, which is admittedly not my
I have to admit, this book felt a bit weird to me. It almost seemed like one long transition piece. There was some set up to deal with the fall out from the fairy war, and those that were trapped on Earth when the gates were closed. There was some set up with the Weres
Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris Read More »
This is another park I’d visited when I was a kid because my aunt and uncle live nearby. It’s really fun to wonder around with kids. I went with my cousin and her three oldest boys (the oldest I think was seven at the time) several years ago, and watching them wander through the fort
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Finding this park turned out to be a bit of an adventure. It’s signposted from Route 1, but the signs are then small, and harder to spot. (Turns out if we had used the Gazetter, it actually would have been easier to find.) As it was, we had quite a drive around various parts of
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Cobscook Bay State Park is not much further up Route 1 than the turn off to Lubec. There’s some lovely shoreline scenery in what’s starting to be the land of more extreme tides. (Cobscook is the local tribe’s word for boiling tides.) One cool feature is you can go clamming – there was a family
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Jasper Beach is not a state park – it’s owned and managed by the town of Machiasport. It’s not even labelled in our slightly older version of the Delorme Maine Gazetter (look for Howard Cove), but it is is sign-posted from Route 1 in Machias, and it’s worth the detour. It’s an interesting glacial feature
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Oh, have I mentioned that our main day out was foggy, or rainy, or drizzly, or some combination of those? There was some blue sky, I swear. You can see it in the fourth picture, right? Anyway, Roque Bluffs has both an ocean beach, and a pond to swim in, which just may make it
Roque Bluffs State Park – Roque Bluffs, Maine Read More »
This is a lovely little pocket beach, with amazing views of Penobscot Bay, just out of South Thomaston village. Wasn’t even very busy when we stopped by (this is apparently the first year they’ve even bothered with a ranger).
Birch Point State Park – Owl’s Head, Maine Read More »
Last weekend, we were up in Ellsworth visiting my father. On our way up and back, and instead of braving the insanity that is Mount Desert Island in August, we did a big drive to fill up the stamps in our State Park Passport book with Midcoast and Downeast parks. There will be photos to
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