Weekly Wildflowers – Blue Spruce Trail, Westbrook, ME
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Garden Notes
It occurs to me I haven’t been posting much about the garden. It’s been chugging along, mostly. Because of the heat, I actually haven’t been faced with a glut of zucchini. About half the dahlias are now blooming, which is ahead of schedule from last year, but you can tell from the foliage that they
The Bone Spindle – Leslie Vedder
This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the sleeper is a prince in need of rescue, and the rescuer is a noblewoman turned treasure hunter who also happens to be under a curse. She’s fallen in with another princess turned exile (and expert axe welder) who’s totally falling in love with a Red Riding
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Knitting Notes
I have two sweaters going right now. I really need to decide what to do with them. I suspect the colorwork sweater may not survive – I’m not sure I can do the sleeves without making them too tight. But I feel like I also owe it to myself to try. The other is more
Embroidery Notes
Look! It’s starting to look like a thing! Finished chart 2 of my crazy making Boreas full cover cross stitch. (Look up Waterhouse’s Boreas if you want to see how small a section of the upper corner of the painting this is.) The second chart went much faster than the first, once I got the
Memory – Lois McMaster Bujold
What I really love about this author and this series is the range of stories she manages to work into this world. You never really know what you’re going to get in each book. This is a very quiet book – it starts with Miles making an incredibly stupid (and uncharacteristic) mistake – he
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