Cuz I just can't help myself

Mily!

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Geof and Gina

Alma Farm is a new CSA started by these two young things. It's in Porter, Maine, where everybody who's anybody now resides.

Midwives Finish School in Maine

Naples, Maine, has a tiki bar. What you see is what you get.

Maia Filar, Toronto

Restaurant gossip extraordinaire a la style
Canadienne: Hogtown

Barn Windows

East Conway, NH

Chipotle Mango BBQ

James and River

Ruth and Brassica

Mancations

So, of course they exist:

According toWiki "Tapping into the success of marketing all-girls getaway packages, hotels and resorts have started featuring all-male bonding vacation packages that include everything from poker, to extreme sports, to spa treatments."
www.Mancation.com
www.ManTripping.com
The list goes on....

Girlfriend Getaways in the Granite State

Call it recession anxiety, or snappy girl consumerism, but there's a new tourism scheme taking New Hampshire by storm:

Girlfriend Getaways in the Granite State. visitnh.gov has a whole array of ideas for you and your best gal pals, "whether it’s enjoying the great outdoors, shopping, dining, museum hopping or visiting the spa, New Hampshire is an ideal getaway for an affordable and fun girls’ weekend away."

I searched pretty hard and didn't see any info on deer ticks (big hiking bummer), poison ivy (even bigger bummer) or intense lack of racial diversity, but I suppose even those small hindrances will be absolved after a couple-a wine and cheeses, "hitting the beach", and a lilac festival or two.

Can't wait for the must-be-coming-soon press release: Gettin' up Granite with the Guys." Stay posted.

NH Ski Weekend

Maka gets Married

"A Labor of Love"

EFG Books in Bridgton, ME, puts out a bi-annual literary journal, and is now publishing hand-bound poetry. Owner Geof, originally from PA, admits it's not a money making venture. "It's a labor of love," he says.

Impromptu

Center Conway has one ethnic food: samosas. We caught Ryan eating them, and then watched Ryan eating Center Conway's other ethnic food: ice cream.

Center Conway, NH

Woods after the Rain

Nottingham, NH

End of Tulips

Mt. Patuckaway

Nottingham, NH

My father: "Why don't you take more photos of alive things? Like the sheep?"

Eliza, future florist

The idea was to collect a bucketful of forsythia petals, stuff them into a mason jar and put daffodils on top. No photo of the end product, let's just say it looked sorta like aquatic scrambled eggs.

Walk to Kingdom Dam

The buds on the tree: "like fireworks".

dead things that spring coughed up

1. fox's head
2. snake squashed on dirt road
3. unidentifiable furry thing the dog really wanted to roll in