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Hollingsworth Trail, Petit Manan NWR – Steuben, ME

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Elder Race – Adrian Tchaikovsky

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What an interesting book. It’s told from two viewpoints – the princess on a world long ago colonized by Earth, and the last of the anthropologists sent by a later version of Earth explorers to study their far-flung, long lost colonies. You get a perfect collision of magic and science, and a really good examination

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Steeplebush, Spiraea tomentosa

Weekly Wildflowers – Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, Boothbay, ME

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This is one of my exception cultivated garden posts, because this botanical garden does make a point to feature native plants. And some of these are actually natives once you get outside of the cultivated areas.

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monarch butterfly and swamp milkweed

Coastal Maine Botanical Garden – Boothbay, ME

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Point of Honour – Madeleine E. Robins

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I really liked the premise of this book – set in Regency times (in a slightly alternate world where the Prince of Wales is not yet regent, and married differently than in our own timeline), Sarah Tolerance is a fallen woman. She was ruined by her family’s fencing master, and had a lovely life with

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Penric and the Bandit – Lois McMaster Bujold

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I aspire to have as a good of retirement output as Bujold does. I snap these novellas up as soon as I see them – they’re just such a great read. This story isn’t really revolutionary – Pen’s journeying into the countryside to find a forgotten shrine to his god, the Bastard. In a small

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Wood Lily, Lilium philadelphicum

Weekly Wildflowers – Kennebunk Plains Preserve, Kennebunk, ME

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The Bennet Women – Eden Appiah-Kube

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I’ve been sitting on this one for a while – I think it was a Kindle First Reads book, back when we actually had Prime. It’s a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in the Bennet women’s house at Longbourn College, which reminds me quite a bit of my New England liberal arts college experience,

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Grass Pink, Calopogon tuberosus

Weekly Wildflowers – Warren Woods, Scarborough, ME

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Partridge Berry, Mitchella repens

Weekly Wildflowers – Crescent Beach SP, Cape Elizabeth, ME

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That was an interesting walk. It’s normally beach pea heaven down on the shore, but with the storms over the winter, a lot of that area has been flattened out. The bindweed is in heaven. I’ll be interested to see what this does over the next couple of years.

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