A visit to Rockland, Maine
We stayed in the Turret Room on the second floor. I wanted to go to the Farnsworth Art Museum, which features the paintings of Andrew Wyeth. What we could see was limited because they...
Category: Travel
Biddeford visit
Combining missions: I wanted to visit my sister in southern Maine and also to give Sam an experiential gift (the best kind for him). So we went to visit and stayed overnight at The...
QC, becoming a tradition
We like to visit a town with a vibrant holiday scene in the days before Christmas. Last year we went to Iceland, but the two years before, we went to Quebec City, Canada. This...
Plant dreaming
We went to a Wild Seed Project plant sale in southern Maine last Saturday. I’m stumbling along in my self-landscaping with natives, but I am trying! I started the circle garden in May 2023...
Icelandic tales – Hallgrímskirkja
The last of my Icelandic posts. Not much here – we didn’t do this church justice. We didn’t go up in the tower, we didn’t even go into the church very far, just the...
Icelandic tales – Friðheimar
I couldn’t get a direct translation of Friðheimar out of Google translate, but I played around with it and came up with Peaceful World. A good translation! We saw beams of light projected from...
Icelandic tales – Kaffi, etc.
It’s New Year’s Day. January 1st, 2025. A quiet day. Raining hard. We are not going out. We’ve been traveling a lot – first Iceland, then Connecticut for a holiday visit to friends and...