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Completed in 2021 in Mulgrave, Australia. Images by Veeral Patel. Two separate outmoded buildings were used for decades before this new child and family center arrived in Mulgrave, Melbourne. One built around the...

Check out this gorgeous nationally award-winning mansion in Colonie. This home sits on 3.8 acres with breathtaking views. It is over 6,800 square feet with 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 3 fireplaces, and beautiful craftsmanship throughout. The floors are limestone, cherry, and marble. There is an open-air french kitchen. Take a look at the stonework on the terraces and the patio.

Birds perform a springtime symphony. Can you identify them by their songs? By Don Lyman Globe Correspondent,Updated April 23, 2021, 1:03 p.m. Email to a Friend Black-throated Blue Warbler seen in Mount Auburn Cemetery in May 2017.Jared Keyes “Listen to the songbird, hear him singing. The song he loves he’s singing just for you.” (From ) As we move into spring, it seems that birds are suddenly everywhere. Whether year-round residents like cardinals or chickadees, or migratory spec...

Why corduroy is your new smart dressing solution for winter Get into the groove with the cloth of queens and Parisian intellectuals Alyson Walsh Credit: Neil Mackenzie Matthews Who needs squeaky leggings when you can have comfy corduroy? While I am unable to visit Paris at the minute, I can channel French chic by draping myself in this timeless, tactile favourite in front of Call My Agent! on Netflix. Corde du roi means cloth of kings, though I’d like to rename it corde du reine in honour o...

Green and Growing: When it comes to nature writing, love your locals Jim Sirch, Yale Peabody Museum’s education coordinator, now writes a nature blog with a hyper-local flair for our southern New England environs. Here, he releases a newly hatched black swallowtail butterfly. (photo courtesy of Jim Sirch) Middletown garden writer Thomas Christopher poses here with a chicken from his flock. “She’s from the Sultan breed,” he said, “a very sweet and somewhat goofy breed.” (photo courte...

  This weeks document for transcription is the 1733 Will of Joseph Morse (1667-1733) of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, which is in Estate File 15528 in the Middlesex County Probate Court records.  [image 2 of 4] [image 2 of 4] I Joseph Morse of Marlburrough senr in ye County of Middls in New England yeoman being Aged and full of Pain but of sound mind and Disposing memory blessed be God therefor in and by these Presents make this my Last will and Testament in manner and form a...

In the years since, what was a boggy, rushy, barren landscape is now filled with life. The many fruit trees, berries, herbs and flowering trees are home to birds, bees, and small mammals. Two ponds teaming with life and the sound of water flowing show Colette’s careful stewardship of this lush ecosystem she created with her own hands. The story of her daily life, her successes and challenges are recorded in videos and blog posts and in her self-published book, A Cottage and Three Acres, prin...