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...
Category: Travel
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...
Icelandic tales – Geysir
After the hot bath, we made one last stop at the Strokkur Geysir. There was a lot of geothermal activity in that area as well as some trails to walk. I have been to...