Pamela Leavey

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Beautiful Gardens

One of the things I love about the Newburyport/Amesbury area is the beautiful gardens. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to take any photos attesting to this claim, but hopefully I will get some uploaded here soon.

Driving around, reacquainting myself with the area after being gone for so long, I have notices that there’s white Wisteria trees blooming everywhere along the roadside. The rhodedendrons are spectacular and in recent days the Peonies have been bursting with color.

Yesterday, I saw a garden in Newburyport that was bursting with Bearded Iris in a wide range of colors including Black.

My mother had beautiful flower gardens when I was growing up. I love to garden and it’s been years since I have lived any where that I could. We have a nice little year that gets some decent sun and a lot of shade. We’re trying out a few veggies and flowers with hope we’ll get enough sun to enjoy both.

It’s been fairly dry the past week or so, and of course the garden won’t grow with out water. Rather than using the hose and wasting water, we’re using a watering can. Bob Villa has some tips on other ways to save water when gardening.

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Home

Home is Massachusetts… It always has been, even during the almost 19 years that I lived in Los Angeles, and the 7 lovely months I just spent in Maine, home is and always has been… Massachusetts. And… It’s good to be home.

Home is a drive along Main Street in Amesbury, looking across the Merrimack River to Newburyport… A walk along the waterfront park in downtown Newburyport, admiring all the beautiful boats in the river.

Home is a short drive to Plum Island…

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There really is no place like home.

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A Little Night Music

Carole King performs “Up On The Roof”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MopbhuZ2Bh0

I’ve thought often since moving here to Eastport how much I would love a place with a cupola or a widow’s walk on the roof. Years ago, I lived in a place in Newburyport that had both. It was a fantastic place to escape to, and the views of the city and the coast were wonderful.

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From the Hill Top

I caught this spectacular sunset on Sunday driving back to Eastport from a weekend in Newburyport. We were on Rte 9, in the Alexander area:

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The skies were stunning through the drive on Rte 9.

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