What an amazing weekend. I’ve been walking around in short sleeves and sandals. Of course, half of this walking around was in search of weather proofing. So we’ve basically spent the weekend sealing the half of the windows we don’t have open. Such is fall in Maine! My main discovery of the weekend is that […]
My best friend from college was up visiting this weekend, so we took advantage of the incredible weather to head out to the sea while she was there. The foliage still isn’t in full swing, but we were able to find some little peeks of color here and there. It was also nice to have
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The Common Ground Fair is put together every year by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardener’s Association (MOFGA), at their test farm in Unity. It’s pretty much an anti-fair. There are no rides, the food is all organic, and as locally grown as possible (and man is it good), and I don’t think I’ve ever
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Not only are the crab apples ripe, but half the tree is yellow. The yellow trees tend to start first around here, though we get the occasional young maple that will go an early red, but those are few and far between. I love this time of year. I went out shopping this weekend and
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We had a high school friend of my boyfriend’s in visiting us from England this past weekend. The last time she came through, it was late October, and it rained the entire time, so we were very excited to have lovely weather on Friday and Saturday so we could take her around to what ended
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My boyfriend heard of this place in his work travels, and was advised that it had lovely gardens. It definitely didn’t disappoint. There are three separate garden areas, as well as lovely views of the Salmon Falls River. Unfortunately, the house wasn’t open for tours when we got there, but we’ll definitely have to go
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I love weekdays off. It’s so much easier to go somewhere with a small parking lot on a Friday afternoon at 2, when everyone else is still at work. Yes, after my aborted trip last weekend, I finally made it to Mackworth Island, which is a small island off the coast of Falmouth, connected to
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I reached my tolerance for staying indoors around two this afternoon. (I have asthma, so I try to take it easy when the air is this obviously bad.) The plan was to head to Mackworth Island in Falmouth, but sadly, when I got there, the lot was full. So, figuring that any sea breeze at
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I enjoy one of the city maintained parks close to me, near USM. In the Spring, they put in tons of tulips which look absolutely lovely. Once those go by, they pull them out and replace most of the beds with annuals, but the central bed is planted every year with cannas. It’s fun to
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Went to a birthday party in MA this weekend. Because I am such a garden geek, the highlight of my weekend photographs are pictures of the hummingbird moth in my friend’s garden. So cool!! What would have otherwise been the chief highlight of the trip down was the garden at the Stonewall Kitchen factory store
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