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A visit to Acadia National Park and a trip through New England states. Also a selection of handmade Christmas gift ideas like poinsettia collectible thimbles, Christmas keyrings and handmade polymer clay beads. Shop for the holidays from handmade this year.

Volume 14 Issue 7, July 2017 What's New in July? Wow, it’s getting hot out! In that, I am looking for some cool shade to be in when I am outside, and Blu is lounging on the front porch sharing his water dish with the brazen squirrels. All of this has slowed down my flower planting, but I am enjoying massive blooms from the bush daisies and the black eyed susans we planted last month. The birds are frolicking in the bird bath when Blu isn’t trying to drink out of it or the squirrels aren’t using it as their...

Volume 14 Issue 6, June 2017 What's New in June? It’s summer. With that comes a lot of new flowers and other colorful additions to our front yard. We just dropped in several black eyed susan plants to brighten up a newly cleared corner of the front yard. We get assaulted regularly by pepper trees that are noxious weeds the size of redwoods, and once that weed was chopped down, there was a sunny space for some more flowers. I put in two flower boxes in the center of the yard with annuals that added more color to the birdfeeder...

Volume 14 Issue 5, May 2017 What's New in May? Feels like summer just snuck up on us and smacked us upside the head. The heat and humidity is already starting to creep up on us. There are new ospreys in the nest, and they are very noisy. I don’t have any photos of them, but I saw their fuzziness poking over the edge of the nest the other day, and I hear them screaming for fish. I am only a block off of the river, so it is not unusual to see a fish flying overhead in the talons...

Volume 14 Issue 3, March 2017 What's New in March? The cardinals are back in the feeder, even if only for a short time as they get ready to nest. They will show up here in droves in the next month or so. The doves on the other hand, have taken over the feeder and have run off everything from woodpeckers to blue jays. It’s spring and everyone is territorial. We had one hour influx of every robin and starling in the country covering the ground, and then they were gone just as quickly as they came. Have been really...