Latest Updates
03/04/2009
I have been baking galore over the winter. One of my pet projects is to try out all of the recipes in the LMM books — especially all of the mouthwatering cakes, pies and pastries. I’ve made Anne’s Buttercup Cake from Anne of Avonlea, Susan Baker’s new-fangled Butterballs from Anne of Ingleside, and of course Marilla Cuthbert’s famous plum puffs that sadly, can’t “minister to a mind diseased.”
14/01/2009
It’s a month until Valentine’s day, so I started making Anne+Gilbert valentines! Most of them are based on stills from the Sullivan films, but stay tuned if you’re not a Sullivan fan - I’m working on more Valentine’s day images that aren’t related to the movies!
10/01/2009
Added Follow the Stars Home by Luanne Rice to Book Mentions. Thanks to Stephanie for the submission!
Updated the Montgomery Homestead at Fox Point page, with some beautiful photos of L. M. Montgomery’s ancestors’ home, submitted by Nick. I have also been drawing original maps for the locations in Magic for Marigold, The Story Girl, and Jane of Lantern Hill.
01/01/2009
A brand new layout for the new year! Let me know what you think - I’m trying to make all the information more accessible. Yes, there are still glitches.
04/12/2008
Found amazingly detailed Korean editions of Anne, such as this one - very elaborate, includes maps from the Anne of Green Gables treasury, and illustrations from other editions.
Added Russian covers sent to me from Marina.
03/12/2008
Added Stephanie Meyer, Bliss Carman, Stanley Baldwin and others to Famous Fans.
23/11/2008
Made a handful of Anne of Green Gables Christmas Cards / E-Cards! (Sullivan screencaps from Avonlea Vignettes). Just in time for the holiday season, with Anne e-cards for many more occasions to come. Please email me (wildcherryblossoms [at] gmail [dot] com if you have any special requests for images, music, or even video clips that you’d like to see turned into e-cards. If you’d like to submit your own Anne e-cards, send in your images (jpegs max-width 500px) and you will be credited.
18/11/2008
I’ve been working away at the book cover gallery. I’m very excited - there are nearly 1000 covers in all sorts of languages for many L. M. Montgomery books, so it should be one of the most extensive collections online. I also wrote an article on the Politics of L. M. Montgomery, who is - perhaps surprisingly - a Liberal. I also put up The Piper– Walter Blythe’s poem in Rilla of Ingleside– which I saved from a fan website in 2004 that doesn’t seem to be online anymore.
16/11/2008
Updated the Author page with a “get-to-know-you-questionnaire” that Montgomery answered, full of miscellaneous information about her favourite flowers and books and places. Wrote a short article on her suicide, and am slowly posting summaries of Magic Island as I’m reading along.
15/11/2008
The L. M. Montgomery translations should be as up-to-date as can be! I found lots of foreign titles at UNESCO, and was excited to learn that Anne has been translated into languages like Arabic, Estonian, Icelandic and Thai. There are 33 languages, and counting! And of course you can view the corresponding book covers at the book cover gallery.
04/11/2008
I’m so excited: my complete overhaul of lmm-anne.net - the Anne of Green Gables and L. M. Montgomery lexicon is just about done! Minus a few glitches (the author section looks ugly, some of the geography pages are still messy, and I still have stashes of audio to upload for some of the films, and the games need revision), the site should be functional. It’s here, it’s really here!
I have been collecting Anne and L. M. Montgomery information since 2001. I love every single one of L. M. Montgomery’s books, and “delving deeper” into their world makes them even more meaningful to me. I get thrills when I read poetry that Anne quoted, and I hunt for book covers from all around the world as a diversion. I read every LMM biography I can get my hands on, and I’ve become such an insufferable know-it-all of Montgomery-esque tidbits that I really had to spout it out somewhere.
lmm-anne.net first went live in 2005, under the name “Wild Cherry Blossoms: an Anne of Green Gables Project” (with allusions to providing “scope for imagination” for fans, as in Anne’s line “wouldn’t you like to sleep in a wild cherry tree all white with blossom? you could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls..“). It focused only on the Anne series. I began expanding it in late 2006 to include Montgomery’s entire canon, but college, travelling, and life, got in the way. I’m so please I finally waded through some 400 odd page of literary allusions, and the several hundred PEI photos and movie screencaps. Yes, seriously, AND I still have files on my hard drive that are clamouring to go live.
The new edition is renamed as lmm-anne.net - the Anne of Green Gables and L. M. Montgomery lexicon, because it’s really a compendium of information on the Montgomery world. I hope you’ll enjoy everything you find here. Look forward to updates and new sections, too - there’s always more coming!
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