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rogue…

15 Monday Jun 2020

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had lots of company yesterday…

a friend found white alyssum and brought it over for me, as well as some other plants from her garden… I have been searching for alyssum for ages…

spent some happy time planting this morning… and still have some left…

while she was still here, my middle grandson was dropped off so he could mow and whipper snip the garden…

he even cut down a rogue elm tree in the back lane, lol… after he got the work done we had a lovely conversation before his brother arrived for a short visit and to pick him up…

I certainly am blessed…

toppled…

14 Sunday Jun 2020

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the wind has been blowing a lot in the last few days…

today, it was so strong that it toppled the elephant ear plant in the pond… I had thought it was secure, but all of a sudden it blew over… dug out my water shoes, found some very large rocks, and climbed in and stood it back up, circled it with the rocks as well as adding a few on top of it…

the rocks were so big, it raised the water level and a few of the lily pads went back under the water, lol…

I didn’t spot the frog, but a number of house sparrows and a few chipping sparrows stopped by to drink and have a bath…

the chickadees have returned and two of them were really looking around… I was wondering if they were searching for a spot to nest as I hadn’t seen this particular behaviour previously…

froggie…

12 Friday Jun 2020

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saw the frog a number of times yesterday while I was listening to a program on my iPhone…

it has hopped past me a few times over the last while but never when I have a camera in my hand…

yesterday froggie was out sunning on the rocks around the edge of the pond… when it jumps in it swims across in just a few seconds…

according to research it appears to be a common frog… interesting, as for the last few years we had leopard frogs…

got some nice pictures;-)…

and another exciting thing is that the water lily leaves are just starting to rise above the water… this first photo was from last night and only the top corner of one lily pad was peeking out of the water…

now four lily pads are above water on one plant and two on the second plant…

outing…

11 Thursday Jun 2020

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just home from a wonderful gathering with my best buddies… we haven’t been together since my birthday in April, when they came and wished me a happy birthday at a distance with signs and a card…

this was the first time that I have left the house, and driven the car, since mid-March…

everyone brought their own dishes, silverware and mugs, and I even brought my chair, which worked out really well as it has a little table attached where I could put my tea and camera…

we sat – physically distancing, of course – around a lovely fire in our host’s backyard, celebrating another birthday and enjoyed a visit while eating lemon cake with fresh raspberries which she had baked for us… (cake photo from the chef)…

we talked about birds, celebrations, family and wind chimes… and we learned that wind chimes can have different sounds attributed to them… the ones we were listening to were the song of a meadowlark…

it was cool, but we all brought warm clothes and were quite comfortable… a bit crazy that gloves were needed…

it was an excellent first outing and I felt good about getting out for the first time since the pandemic began, although I did wash my hands as soon as I got into the house, lol…

thanks for the picture Pat

my clothes smell like a campfire… what a treat…

fluff…

09 Tuesday Jun 2020

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started one of the sticker pages in my book… and worked on it between tasks in the kitchen…

I chose the dandelion because as I sat in the garden yesterday the fluff from the cottonwoods made it look like it was snowing…

not sure where the tree or trees are, but they sure are producing a lot of fluff, lol…

when I look out the front window it would be easy to imagine that it is the seeds from the dandelions…

elephant…

08 Monday Jun 2020

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the fish have finally come out from the bridge… I think they are happy that the waterfall isn’t running…

and the water plants arrived… yay…

two white water lilies, elephant ears and parrot’s feather…

they turned up on Monday, but I left it until yesterday to put them into the pond…

the temperature was only 15° C but the sun was out so it was quite nice… I think they are all firmly settled in…

and the fish are happy as well… one little guy came out from under the bridge while I was in the pond and then couldn’t get past my legs to get back under the bridge… finally I moved both legs to one side and it returned to safety…

bushy…

06 Saturday Jun 2020

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a week ago I took a picture of the clematis growing up the sunny side of the house… it didn’t have any buds at the time…

I was very happy that it was getting bushy and doing well… after some research it appears that it needs to be pinched back so I will start doing that…

we’ve planted a number of them over the years in various spots and they have always died after a few years…

my beloved and I planted this one along the driveway before he died so I am always thrilled when it reappears…

today I spotted some buds and am very excited…

barefoot…

05 Friday Jun 2020

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recently social media declared it was barefoot day…

once I heard that, I stepped out of my flip flops and haven’t put anything back on my feet since;-)…

for many years I didn’t wear anything on my feet as often as possible… inside or outside…

and then, even in the house I was wearing slippers… interesting how things change over time…

blessed to be home and have the option…

plug…

04 Thursday Jun 2020

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had the most wonderful morning in the garden…

when I went out for a hot tub first thing I realized the pump had stopped in the pond…

before I went in, I pulled the plug and then spotted a dragonfly sitting on a rock in the pond…

took my breakfast outside and sat and watched it for quite some time… wondering if it had come up from the water and was drying its wings…

it was windy and I watched two butterflies flit past… an orange one, maybe a monarch although it wasn’t close enough to confirm… and a black one… it had some yellow along the outside of the wings…

went into the house for a cup of tea and when I came back, noticed the dragonfly in the pond and thought it might be dead, but then its wings fluttered… I found a stick and pulled it out and set it down in the sun… after about half an hour it flew away;-)…

a short while later I saw my buddy the frog jump in and swim across the pond… and finally the fish came out from under the bridge…