I had to travel to MA to find them, but I actually saw crocus and snowdrops in person this weekend! Spring really is coming! I was in MA for the fourth(?) annual Piemas celebration. I got to hang out with friends, and cute children, and cute cats. And, there was chicken pot pie, sloppy joe […]
Today’s reward for working my butt off all morning on the quilt was a walk around Mackworth Island. I managed to reverse my all low tide all the time trend for this year, and arrived at high tide (and a high high tide at that). I’ve decided I actually like the island better at high
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We spent yesterday tooling around York County, something we used to do with a little more frequency in the summer before gas prices went through the roof. It was definitely nice being on the road and seeing what was open/closed/changed since the last time we went through. We stopped at a couple of used book
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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
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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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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