<![CDATA[from the neighborhood: shirley moves to maine]]>This passed Saturday, Hanna and I drove up to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens to visit with her mom and dad. Linda was exhibiting at the Maine Fiber Arts Showcase. It was a rainy afternoon, but luckily the fiber arts event was inside the visitor’s center.
As usually happens when we visit with Hanna’s parents, we drove north with things to give/return to them and they met us with more things for us to take south again … a new sweater for Hanna, the tam that Linda knit me for Christmas and finally blocked, and what Hanna has termed “the rudest thing ever”:
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| Kevin with the rude squash (photo by Linda) |
In exchange, we finally allowed Shirley — the stuffed sheep from Michigan that we gave Linda for her birthday in July — to move to her forever home in Maine.
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| Shirley and Linda at Linda’s display booth (photo by Anna) |
The garden is impressive in size and scope, although we didn’t get a chance to see much of it in the rain. One section is the fairy house village. I think this is where these magical creations were headed:
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