The following photographs are of just a few of the birds that I have visiting my backyard every year during the winter. I also provided some information about each bird. The black-capped chickadee Poecile atricapillus is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird. They are the state bird of Maine and Massachusetts in the United States […]
Sugarloaf Mountain & Kingfield on a Perfect Winter’s Day in Maine
It was such a beautiful winter’s day, so we decided to hop into the car and take advantage of what the season has to offer here in Western Maine. Today, we visited three places, the Carrabassett Coffee Company, Sugarloaf Mountain in the Carrabassett Valley, and then the Orange Cat Cafe. Here are a few pictures […]
Visiting Camden, Maine During the Holiday Season
A holiday table arrangement. The 16 Bay View Hotel in Camden, Maine on Bay View Street. A view of the Camden Public Library. The entrance to the Camden Public Library. The Children’s Garden Bench outside the entrance to the Camden Public Library. The entrance to the Camden Library Amphitheater. The Camden Public Library Amphitheater. The […]
Autumn Collection & Storing Nasturtium Seeds Over the Winter
Nasturtium Tropaeolum are annual herbaceous flowering plants, that can be easily grown in flower gardens, planters, and hanging baskets. These plants thrive in sunny areas and prefer well-drained soil. The flowers are showy and often grow in intensely bright shades of red, orange, and yellow. These flowers as well as the young leaves are edible […]
Braun MQ537 Multiquick 5 Hand Blender
If there’s one thing I’ve learned after I embarked on my culinary journey a few years ago, it was that I needed some stuff. While we already had a kitchen full of various pieces of equipment, much of it wasn’t up to snuff. Take bowls for example. While we had tons of irregularly shaped, sized […]
Backyard Birds During the Early Spring
A male white-throated sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis. A blue jay Cyanocitta cristata in the snow. A female yellow-bellied sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius in a birch tree (Betula). A black-capped chickadee Poecile atricapillus on the trunk of a birch tree. A singing white-throated sparrow. A visiting dark-eyed junco Junco hyemalis. A white-throated sparrow perching in an apple tree Malus domestica. A […]