I came back from Florida bitten hard by the gardening bug. The transition from zone 10b to 5b is not terribly kind, and I came back to a really bleak landscape. Fortunately, it being Spring now, Mother Nature is at least attempting to please me. The above is my side garden, with bulbs very happily […]
We’re into full on winter wonderland mode here, which means I’m pretty much holed up in the house, not really going anywhere interesting, hence the lack of anything other than reading and knitting posts. Here is the best I can manage to remedy that. We’ve acquired a new neighbor. One of the local red tailed
Last weekend, we headed down to Portsmouth for some shopping, and stopped off at Nubble Light along the way. I’ve also included what’s probably the last gasp of flower shots for the year here at home.
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An assortment of random pictures from the Common Ground Fair. It was great to get back there, after a two year break. The weather was incredibly gorgeous (maybe even a bit too hot), and the food was as fabulous as always. I was remarkably restrained, and managed to come out with only one skein of
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We were in the area, so we had to do it. I’ve now officially been to the easternmost point in the US. This is not the kind of place you want to make a day trip out of, but as a stop off at the end of a day trip to Campobello, it’s ideal.
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This past weekend, we headed Downeast, to Canada, to visit Campobello Island, which will be another post. On our way there, we stopped at Fort Point State Park in Stockton Springs, Maine. The beauty of that stop was the lighthouse, as well as the ominous thundery sky.
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I finished up my vacation with a clam boat from The Lobster Shack. I arrived at about 11:45, which was apparently the perfect time, as I had ample parking to chose from, and one party ahead of me ordering. By the time I left the building to wait for my food, the line was at
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For something a little different today, I found a cruise that goes out to Eagle Island, a state park that was the summer home of Admiral Robert Peary (the first American to reach the North Pole), and his family. The island is on the ocean side of Casco Bay (sadly, I was not able to
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