Reading and Roaming
After the intensely bright hot Florida sun, mid-coast Maine’s gray skies, cool temperatures, and spotty rain showers yesterday were a relief. Portland on Friday before the cloud cover was weakly warm with enough sun to say summertime. Thanks to my cousins, we visited the iconic Portland Head Light for the first time after lunching at …
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It is high summer in Florida and that means temperatures of 90 to 92 every day with overnight lows never below 75. For some of us, like me, that means more time inside; for the lizards among us, it’s great for basking, or baking, in the sun. So I strive to take advantage of the …
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AT THE MOVIES “Madcap,” ” hilarious” and “fun” are all terms I’d use to describe just released espionage comedy, Spy. The women are at the top of their game—mostly—and there is plenty of foreign intrigue and too many bodies getting shot to count. The wonderful cast is led by Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper, a basement …
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FILM I recommend Far from the Madding Crowd! Beautiful countryside, beautifully filmed, and Carey Mulligan is a lovely Bathsheba, intelligent, definite and almost elfin. And the men—Francis Troy has the required rakish dark hair and eyes, Boldwood (don’t you love Hardy’s choice of names!) is older, but not as sinister seeming as in the novel, …
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