On Tuesday morning, I hit the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. I was all excited because I was going to be able to use my Reciprocal membership from our Botanical Garden, and it turns out it’s free on Tuesday anyway. The coolest thing in bloom at the moment was the water lily collection. That happened to be […]
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So we were in Washington DC from last Thursday to Tuesday. The weather was gorgeous (though ungodly humid), and we had a really good time. There was a fair amount of Smithsonian Museum viewing, and some really good food (Ted’s Bulletin, I’m looking at you!). We also got to experience Friday Night Jazz at the
It’s been crazy hot up here. Like, hole up in the house, and don’t go anywhere in daylight hot. One of the few bright sides to that is the really interesting weather the heat brings on. (And we’ve been lucky there – no crazy statewide damaging thunderstorms that knock out power for a week…)
In an effort to find something Down East that we hadn’t done before, the BF stumbled upon the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, specifically the Petit Manan Point section in Steuben. It was definitely the best part of our weekend. (And I say that despite the fact that we were nearly eaten alive by
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Last weekend, we headed up to Ellsworth, and since we both had Friday off, we managed to wend our way up, stopping to head down the peninsula to Port Clyde, since neither of us had been there before. The Marshall Point Lighthouse was a delight – perfect picnic spot, and Owl’s Head is lovely, with
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What a difference about six weeks makes…
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So the other part of this weekend’s epic drive was a stop at the McLaughlin Garden in South Paris. It’s known for its lilacs (the annual Lilac Festival is this weekend), and they’re all planted in a pretty densely packed woodland area that last weekend was bursting with spring ephemerals. Totally worth the trip. (They
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We went on a fairly epic drive around Southern and Western Maine yesterday, stopping at a few gardens and other spots we’d been wanting to see. The above is the Garden at the Pineland Center, which is just starting to come to life – they haven’t planted the vegetables yet, and the fruit trees are
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