So after May ended with a day in the 90s, June decided it was going to be time to rain. The first weekend was a washout. And my seedlings were really starting to get sick of being in pots. Oh, and we had that little trip to Montreal coming up. So I spent all my […]
I picked up the Into Shadow short story collection from Amazon because it has stories from several authors I’ve read before, and definitely looked like the subject matter was in my wheelhouse. This is the third I’ve read – I liked the prior two, but this one really spoke to me. This is the story
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This was an interesting twist on Pride and Prejudice. Only some people can hear dragons, and in the past, the nobility of England made a treaty with them, where some dragons would have keepers appointed from the nobility, and would be attached as caretakers to their estates. So Longbourn is a dragon, and Elizabeth and
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As usual with this kind of post, I’m going to split these between the planted native flowers, and the flowers I found growing wild, which may or may not be native. Planted Wildflowers Wild Plants
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We had credit with Cirque du Soleil to use up, so we ended up in another French speaking country just two weeks after coming back from France. It’s lovely being able to drive to another country – we went up through the Newport entrance at the top of I91 in Vermont. That part of their
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We’ve got another Elemental Masters comes to America book, but in this case, America is coming to Europe. Annie Oakley and her husband are traveling with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, and they’ve come to Germany. It’s winter now, and they’ve settled down in Strasburg for winter quarters. While they’re there, Buffalo Bill decides to
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While we were gone, I relocated all the house plants to the back room, so we could close the window shades that they were normally in front of. The seedlings and the bedding plants were still under the grow lights, and I didn’t want those window shades open at night with all that light to
Bonus street art from our wanders – we didn’t even hit any of the real hot spots. I was really impressed with the variety out there.
Our last full day in Paris, we left as a catch up day. So that ended up being the Musee de Cluny in the morning. I’d initially planned it in our Tuesday wander through the Latin Quarter, and we know how well the timing on that day ended up. Anyway, this museum is housed in
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Friday was Versailles day, and I got a real kick out of P’s reaction as we rounded the corner from the train station to the boulevard that approaches the Palace. It’s big. And you can know it’s big, and still be shocked by how big it is when you actually see it. We had lunch
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