Weekly Wildflowers – Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME
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Saco Heath Preserve – Saco, ME
I managed a two hour walk at a not very large preserve. At no point would I have been able to consider that walk to have any redeeming aerobic qualities. I did however, work in squats like a champ. That was a quick 851 pictures. 2025 Note: This was the best year for mushrooms in
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A Naturalist’s Book of Wildflowers – Laura C. Martin
This is a lovely book of botanical illustration with interesting little anecdotes about the various flowers portrayed. It covers the whole of the US (and a good chunk of Canada), so it’s necessarily a little broad, but does have an interesting variety of flowers included. It’s a lovely little survey of what’s around in our
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Embroidery Notes
I have two fairly small square frames that I had old sun and moon cross stitch patterns I’d done ages ago in, and I wanted to refresh those. I found two patterns I liked in Punochka’s Etsy shop (Russians really do have fantastic embroidery patterns). This is the Halloween moth – started it on Monday.
Garden Notes
I pulled this out of the garden on Monday. It’s the large tomato plant, the remaining pumpkin, two delicata squash, and most of the gem marigolds, which I didn’t set out to pull, but accidently came up with little effort. I’m mostly down to the herbs and flowers now – we’re on death watch for
Knitting Notes
This is as far as I got with the Josaqan socks. I actually got a little further into the toe, and definitely didn’t have enough yarn. I briefly considered doing a totally different colored toe, but I also did not love how huge these socks were looking, so ultimately, I decided I need to go