Today is my aunt and uncle’s 40th wedding anniversary, so we headed up to Stockton Springs for a celebration of that yesterday. We had a great luncheon, with a decent chunk of my mother’s extended family. There was good food, and tons of little cousins running around causing much noise and fun. Hands down cutest […]
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First, a quick note about vacation day 4. I spent the morning doing chores before meeting up with T so that we could take a stroll around the Old Port. Naturally, yesterday was the first day it rained this week, so we didn’t do quite as much strolling as we would have liked. However, we
For today’s entertainment, I stopped by the Tate House, which is in the Stroudwater neighborhood here in Portland. Oddly enough, it’s the only one of the open historic houses in Portland that I have not been dragged to sometime during my school career. The house was built in the 18th century for George Tate, who
I will first quickly mention that vacation day 1 was taken up with the epic task of cleaning up my desk. This somehow turned into the epic task to clean up my crap in the bathroom cabinet, the pile of badness on my bureau, and the stuff on my desk. I’ve completed the bathroom and
As a celebration of my first day of vacation freedom, I headed over to Falmouth for a walk around Mackworth Island. I was almost foiled by the dang truck attending to the portapotties, which was taking up half the already tiny parking lot, but I managed to get in. It actually wasn’t that great a
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Hamilton House is a really neat 18th century house on a bluff overlooking the Salmon River in southern Maine. I’ve unfortunately never managed to hit in when I could go inside the house, but the gardens are so lovely I haven’t really minded. Monday was particularly lovely because we had the place entirely to ourselves.
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Pretty flowers. That is all.
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My day began and ended with roses. And vetch, and milkweed, and a number of other flowers up in the bluffs above Crescent Beach. The smell was absolutely amazing. The roses already produce my favorite scent in all the world (rose + salt spray = heaven), but it was extra flowery good today. The milkweed
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I headed in town today to see if the rose garden in Deering Oaks park had gone by yet. It definitely wasn’t as lush as when I went last year, but still had a number of decent blooms left. After a walk through the garden, I took a turn around the duck pond. It was
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Today, my mother and I took a lovely (if a little hazy) trip to Gilsland Farm, which is the headquarters for the Maine Audubon Society. I had no idea that it also has some lovely walking trails along the Presumpscot River estuary. We managed to hit it as the fog was rolling in (actually, the
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