What I love about the Lilac Festival is that you go expecting lilacs (and boy do they deliver), but there are also just so many lovely spring wildflowers. This is probably my favorite spring garden in Maine. I brought my mother for a belated Mother’s Day outing, and we had a lovely […]
The Lilac Festival, McLaughlin Garden – South Paris, ME Read More »
This was Sunday’s walk. It’s looking a heck of a lot more marshy than during last year’s dry summer. We’ll have to see how that works out this year.
Scarborough Marsh – Scarborough, ME Read More »
Only a few photos from the sunny day, because of my lord the black flies! I am so glad they don’t live on the coast.
Donnell Pond – Franklin, ME Read More »
One of the joys of being that far out of town is the lack of light pollution. I finally had a chance to try my starry skies setting on my camera. I forgot my tripod (well, BF’s tripod), so the best shots were definitely the ones I had laying on the deck
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In an effort to avoid the black flies once the sun came out, we headed over to Schoodic, on the coast, and did baby’s first hike on the Anvil Trail. (Which had a bit more of a slope than what C had found online, but baby M had a grand old time in her
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It poured on our way up last Sunday to Ellsworth, and the next day started rainy. Not a bad day to spend hanging out at camp. It even dried out a bit late in the afternoon so I could snap some pictures before the black flies came back out.
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Microclimate cracks me up. Good thing I got to see blooming trout lilies last week…
Mackworth Island State Park – Falmouth, ME Read More »
This is the earliest we’ve ever stopped by Hamilton House, and I was delighted to find that there are blue squill and grape hyacinth (my two favorite Spring garden flowers) naturalized down the slopes toward the Salmon River. I cannot tell you how happy it made me to see all that blue. The
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We’re finally past mud season. Not that things are perfect yet, but there are blooms! Pretty much everywhere. (Most of the above came from the overflow parking lot at the Kittery Outlets, which was not where I was expecting to have a nice little wildflower walk.)
Flowers around Kittery, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire Read More »
So we officially got ten inches in that charming April Fool’s Day storm. We stayed inside the whole day, and the next day only shoveled out the walks. Figured as long as we could get to the cars and the mail man could get to our door the next day, we’d be
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