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.)
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This was actually last weekend’s walk. It was a bit breezy, but lovely out. The frogs were in full voice at the pond. Just a great early Spring walk.
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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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So it was really warm the past two weeks or so. Like up to around 50. Melted that all that snow we just got, even. (The fog on several days has been unbelievable.) And so, there are bulbs. (From left to right – daffodils, crocus and garlic chives.)
After a relatively uneventful season, winter finally decided to show up. It snowed all day Friday the 10th, fitfully Saturday the 11th (it was considered a separate storm), then started later in the Sunday on Sunday the 12th and went all the way through the next day. And then it decided
A winter’s weekend walk.
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My current working theory: the prettier it is when you wake up, the nastier it’ll be to clean up. This was the day I did about 4200 steps mainly just cleaning up around the cars. Thank goodness I didn’t have to work today – my arms were like jelly when I was done.
