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Atlantic Water Gardens also offers instruction manuals and videos. “We try to make things as clear and easy as possible,” says Fortuna.

Oaklawn Farms Landscaping and Natural Stone has received numerous awards from the Master Gardeners of Cumberland County for its gardening, landscape design, and water feature exhibits. Additionally, Kemmer designed and built an event venue located on the family farm which showcases his creative landscape stone and water design capabilities.

A birdbath is one of the best ways to attract birds. Kovalcik said more birds are drawn to birdbaths than feeders. Contrary to popular belief, she said it won’t become a breeding ground for mosquitoes because visiting birds will keep the water from getting stagnant. However, maintenance is crucial.

“I really loved the dramatic heartline roll,” Schaffer said. “The backward launch was pretty awesome. It’s a fantastic ride.”

I’ve heard Murnane called an outsider artist, but I don’t think that’s quite right. Plenty of writers emerge as if out of nowhere (after steeping themselves in canonical authors), then proceed to become more and more their eccentric selves. It might be said, however, that Murnane qualifies as an outsider literary theorist, taking a concept or two from Booth and elaborating an increasingly complex theory of fiction over several books. The narrator of Border Districts has moved (in an echo of The Plains) to a remote region far from the capital, but the ‘image-events’ derive from his youth five decades before, ‘the period of my life when I read book after book of fiction in the belief that I would learn thereby matters of much importance not to be learned from any other kind of book’. He recalls losing his Catholic faith while reading a Hardy novel and the ordeal of discarding ‘a host of mental images that were no longer of use to me. I had previously considered these images the nearest available likenesses to personages by definition invisible to me. I could never have prayed if I had not been able to bring these images to mind.’ Murnane replaced the Holy Trinity with a new quasi-mystical complex he’d extracted from his reading of Booth: a tripartite Murnane, the writer (Father), the narrator (Son), and the implied author (Holy Ghost) holding the first two apart in the reader’s mind. The drift away from the church was common to Murnane’s generation, children educated by monks who then did not fill their ranks and put on their black soutanes and white celluloid bibs. The monks and their bibs are one of the striking images from the book’s opening pages, along with a priest who urinates into holy water in an emergency and a woman who must type up the complaint of a victim of sexual abuse, then loses her faith during a funeral ceremony, walks out of the church and never goes back. Relating his disenchantment with ‘texts intended to explain the mind’, he concludes that his own mind ‘must have been a paradise by comparison with the drab sites where others located their selves or their personalities or whatever they called their mental territories’. Border Districts and the three fictions that precede it are letters from this austere yet infinitely fertile paradise.

The Plains is a bright and inviting novel, full of humour yet without resort to slapstick. As it beckons you along its secrets keep receding. The unnamed narrator has travelled inland from his home near the coast in order to make a film called The Interior. He mixes with ‘intellectuals, custodians of the history and lore of the district’ in ‘enormous bars’. (For all its concern with landscape, most of The Plains takes place in bars, lounges or libraries, as well as within its narrator’s mind.) He reports on the region’s history, which is dominated by painters and poets locked in periodic factional struggles between ‘the sea-greens’ and ‘the old-golds’, or the Horizoners and the Haremen, conflicts now transposed into day-long ritual games for children. The filmmaker mentions the classic poems of the plains – ‘The Horizon, After All’, ‘A Parasol at Noon’ – and describes one of its characteristic paintings:

The master bedroom is on the ground floor, off the dining room, and has large windows looking down to a waterfall and an en suite bathroom with original Arts and Crafts tile in the shower. Next to it is a den with leaded windows.

Green Mountain National Forest officials are warning hikers and campers to safely store all food and keep campsites clean following a spike in encounters with bears.

Let the sun shine in - Fantastic 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with Lake Mendota views. Newly updated kitchen designed by Bella Domicile. Soft-close cabinets, solid surface counters, stainless appliances with gas cooktop. Hardwood floors, gas fireplace, laundry room in the unit and extra storage room on the same floor. Capitol Point is perfectly located just off of the downtown square. Two parking spaces included. See it today.

A full police hunt was launched in an effort to find Madeleine, and investigators used search dogs, notified border controls and alerted airports to her disappearance. 

Who else thought this year that spring might never arrive? Good news: Warm weather is just around the corner. It’s time to plan your flower garden layout.

“For the category “Higher Education,” the state spent $2.4 billion in 2007. It spent about $100 million less ten years later, or a total of $2.3 billion.”