Wildflowers
Wildflowers from several weeks in Maine and New Hampshire.
Crescent Beach – Cape Elizabeth, Maine
What better way to celebrate the first day of summer than a trip to the beach?
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CSA 2010 Week 1
As part of our effort to eat better this year, the BF and I have joined a CSA. I chose Laughing Stock Farm out of Freeport for the following reasons: 1. the awesome name, 2. the awesome veggie list and 3. the Portland pick up location. The first pick up was Wednesday night. It’s still
Forts of the Piscataqua River
In the interests of finding new and different things to do on a Saturday where we have nowhere special to be, the BF came up with the idea of making a list of state parks, and trying to visit as many as possible this summer. So we started this Saturday, at pretty much the southernmost
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Flowers at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden
Yesterday’s weekend wander was to the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden in Boothbay. It was the perfect day for it – a little on the cool side with clouds approaching but staying away until we left. We also got there early enough that the gardens weren’t clogged with people. I was excited to find more rhodys
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New England Wildflowers
Trillium from Vermont, strawberries from my neighborhood, all others from the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden.
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Vaughan Woods State Park and Hamilton House – South Berwick, ME
Our trip in yesterday’s lovely weather was to Vaughn Woods State Park, which is next to Hamilton House, one of my favorite places in Southern Maine. (They were once the same property. While the state was happy to take the Woods from the Vaughn Family estate, they didn’t want the upkeep on Hamilton House, so
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Donnell Pond – Franklin, Maine
I spent a rather raw Saturday morning Down East, getting my first look at the camp my father and C are building on Donnell Pond (in the romantically named T9-SD Township). This is not a beach vacation spot, it’s built on the slope of a glacial drop, with an absolutely fascinating array of boulders strewn
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