Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens – Boothbay, ME
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The Princess Companion – Melanie Cellier
This book is a retelling of ‘The Princess and the Pea’, but where it’s an ordinary girl who gets thrown in with the royal family, and eventually earns her place there by being herself. Alyssa is separated from her party in a storm and ends up at the Winter Palace. After completely charming the 11-year-old
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Embroidery Notes
Night Walked Down is done. (The way the flowers in the fifth and sixth panels blended made it so I did them together, so no separate pictures.) I really enjoyed this pattern. I’m probably going to get a frame sooner rather than later for this, although where I think I want to put it needs
Entangled Life – Merlin Sheldrake
I’m just fascinated by fungus. They also frustrate me, because unlike wildflowers, they’re hard to identify down to a specific level (and I have a deep seated need organize things). This book reinforces why that’s the case. If you’ve never studied fungi much, they are just so diverse, and so fascinating. The author’s fascination with
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Murder of Crows – Anne Bishop
It’s interesting reading reviews of this book – people seem really divided about how badly humanity is portrayed in this book. Not that they started out looking too good in the first book of the series, but things get really grim in this second story. I’m really intrigued by this world building where humans really
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Crescent Beach State Park – Cape Elizabeth, ME
Got a new camera – I’d been less and less satisfied with my pictures lately, and being on the first whole week away for a while really solidified that feeling. So I looked it up, and I’ve actually had that camera since 2015. So what was a really premium point and shoot at the time
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Weekly Wildflowers – Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA
Slightly breaking my rules against posting real gardens here, because this garden had a fabulous pond planted with native plants.
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