Reading and Roaming
WORDS ON WEATHER Hunkering Down Last weekend our friends and family cocooned in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New York during winter storm Jonas. We watched from afar, thanks to the Weather Channel and the Web, almost gleeful that we were here in Florida. But, like men’s sympathetic pregnancies, we hunkered down too—staying indoors, feasting on …
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We’re home. I’ve spent the week sorting mail, stocking the larder, poring over all the cooking magazines and New Yorkers that accumulated, getting back on the treadmill (need to undue the effects of lobster and potato chips!) and soaking in the pool. Florida is hot and humid, but I’m reveling in being in our own space! …
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One of the pleasures of being in midcoast Maine is visiting the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden just outside Boothbay Harbor. It’s a glorious place and in high summer is a riot of color, shapes and scents.
NATURE My sister and brother-in-law, an avid birder and an apprentice birder (self-named), visited us this week and the focus was on birds. It’s the off season for good sightings, but my sister kept a list of birds seen in Florida anyway. I think she got to forty before they departed. Lots of shore birds …
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