ME II: cooking day

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It was another quiet day. We slept in a little and then went grocery shopping for a few things. We got in several walks and cooked a little for the week ahead. It was so fun to just cook together and do little things. It did heat up the house but worth it. We cooked some soldier beans (also known as red eye beans) and made hummus. We also made Judith's Morroccan rice salad which is superb. On one of our walks we made it back to the Western Cemetary which has a vast number of trees and which attracts the birds. We went to see if we could more easily tell the difference between the maples but went on an alternate course of trying to tell the difference between the conifers. It was wonderfully cool this morning but heated up during the day to 77° with a little mugginess. Currently it's 67° and 90% humidity - there is no wind so it can easily feel warm if you walk. It's so lovely to have the app live and to actually have a relaxing three day weekend. The highlight of the day is that we saw a pair of Merlins fly super fast up to each other and have a loud conversation just off Harbor View Park.

back of an old brick building with fire escapes
Back of a beautiful old brick building that we pass when we go to the Co-op.
front of the old brick building cleaned up with lots of windows
This is the surprising front of that lovely decrepit building with all the cool fire escapes and other oddities.
an alley with a mural
Alleyway downtown.
Brick castle like columns of a church
These odd shaped brick columns that feel like they are part of a castle is actually the Chestnut Street Methodist Church (wikipedia article).
an umbel seed head in all it's glory
The miraculous many shapes of plants and how they distribute their seeds.
white snapdragon growing in the crack of the gutter
Perfectly white snapdragon happily blooming away in the gutter near our home.
bright pink hibiscus
Outrageously wonderfully PINK hibiscus.
picture of a woman smiling wearing a hat
A little art for the end.

Have a wonderful evening!

Sending love,

Tawnia

  1. Blue Jay
  2. House Sparrow
  3. Mourning Dove
  4. Black-capped Chickadee - state bird of Maine
  5. Yellow Warbler  - Monument square of all places
  6. Herring Gull 
  7. Rock Pigeon 
  8. American Robin
  9. Red-breasted nuthatch
  10. Osprey 
  11. Eastern Phoebe 
  12. Merlin
  13. American Crow
  14. European Starling