![\"IMG_1814.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-P1ONYQG0ZsA\/TVH5yeM8rCI\/AAAAAAAAC6Q\/h_onp8l4oe8\/IMG_1814.jpg\")
<\/a>Queen Anne's Lace blooms someplace else next year; goldenrod stays put and spreads. Sniff.<\/p><\/div>\n
Moored yachts never filled the harbor after hurricane Irene which meant fewer RB visitors which is not good, but it was, therefore, an easier leave-taking.<\/p>\n
I failed to think of the perfect book(s) for an RB Regular’s`six-week knee-replacement recovery reading in January, which is not good, but I’ll have to keep thinking and posting suggestions which is good.\u00a0 Think other times and places, multi-generational, detail, art, maybe European. So far, Stacy Schiff\u2019s Cleopatra<\/strong> is a \u201cno ancient Egypt;\u201d; Sigrid Undset\u2019s Kristin Lavransdatter<\/strong>, which Millie read, is an \u201calready read it;\u201d James Clavell\u2019s Shogun<\/strong> is a \u201cmaybe re-read;\u201d Bernd Heinrich\u2019s The Snoring Bird<\/strong> is an \u201ctoo recently read, but really liked;\u201c Elizabeth Kostkova\u2019s The Historian<\/strong> is a \u201cno vampires or Vlad the Impaler\u201d though her Swan Thieves<\/strong> was \u201creally good;\u201d and I don\u2019t think Kate Morton\u2019s Distant Hours<\/strong> is going to be sufficiently engrossing though it is fat and it was a \u201cyes.\u201d More suggestions anyone? I\u2019ll send them on.<\/p>\n A long last look at moored lobster boats and ribs of "the wrecks" at low tide.<\/p><\/div>\n First frosts in the Maine valleys signaled Fall, which matters in an uninsulated cottage, so leaving was necessary and therefore easier.\u00a0 Minnesota’s homecoming weekend of 90 degree days was TOO HOT even with insulation, but record-setting frosts followed which just demonstrates how unappealing it is to live an average life, which, with RB and you all, mine is not.<\/p>\n I tried another thriller and, yes again, Maine figured in. (First Paul Garrison\u2019s The Sea Hunter<\/strong> which I liked and John Case\u2019s The Syndrome<\/strong> which I liked, but not nearly as much as his The Genesis Code<\/strong>, which also has Maine in it.) Clearly Maine is thrilling and will continue to be so in books and movies until next summer.<\/p>\n Here\u2018s to then, through a winter of Minnesota postings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minnesotans who know ask, \u201cWas 2011 a good summer?\u201d It was, I say; let me count the ways. The annual summer leftovers dinner went well.\u00a0 My smoked salmon, miraculously packed, is good until 2014 (Thank you, North Carolina Regulars) and … Continue reading <\/a>