It’s been hot, but it’s also been crazy humid (like dew points in the 70s for extended periods of time crazy humid). This trip to Mackworth was on the 7th (while my sister and M were here), and the mushrooms had just exploded. There were sizes and colors I had never seen before.
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We’re back to 70 degree dew points again. Which means there’s fog. So much fog.
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It was not a good winter for trees – we decided to check out this sanctuary for the first time on Saturday, and on every single trail eventually it got to the point where it was blocked by several downed trees. And I’m sure they never budget for that amount of clean up, so it’s
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What a difference a month makes. It’s amazing how much sand the water has already pushed out of the dunes from the large nor’easter that came through the last time we were at Crescent. For that particular storm, we’d really just gotten the coastal flooding effects. We got four total nor’easters this February/March.
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I had a walk at Crescent Beach in September when tropical storm Jose was offshore that was one of the wildest experiences I’ve ever had there. Today was more insane. The dune edges were completely obliterated by the storm. The stream coming out of the marsh behind the dunes, which is normally carved a
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Feeling lazy for lunch today, we headed to Scarborough to El Rayo. First good choice of the day – it’s Maine Restaurant Week, so they had a special menu, which involved some amazing enchiladas, and one of the best chocolate puddings I’ve ever had. Since we were most of the way there, we decided
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It got up to 50 degrees today, the kind of day that begged for a walk. Two Lights is my old reliable in the winter- so long as we’ve had any amount of warming (it’s been above freezing, mostly, for the last week), the oceanside paths at least, will be clear.
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