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pavilion…

18 Wednesday Sep 2024

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went just a few streets further on my walk this morning…

it was overcast and a bit cool, which made it perfect for walking;-)…

today, orange and yellow seemed to be the colours that drew me…

it is fun to look at houses and how front yards are designed… even came across an Inukshuk…

caught some geese that were flying right above me…

and had a different view of the Park bridge, ice sculpture and pavilion…

glad I went early, as not too long after I got home it rained for ages…

stunning…

12 Thursday Sep 2024

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had a wonderful time Tuesday morning as I wandered through the English and Leo Mol Gardens…

it was the first time in months since I’ve walked to the Park… took a minute to remember which path to take, lol…

the gardens are in full bloom and look amazing…

besides the gorgeous flowers, I was able to watch a number of stunning birds, including hummingbirds, as they flitted about all the flowers…

these two photos have one in each of them, but both are rather blurry and hard to spot…

such a wonderful way to spend the morning;-)…

pass-through…

07 Saturday Sep 2024

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spent a little time with the last of my bouquet subscription flowers…

I had divided the bouquet into two vases, but they were pretty much done, so I collected the last of the good ones and put them into two small vases…

one in the bathroom and one on the pass-through…

I am already missing the weekly beauties…

hues…

07 Wednesday Aug 2024

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I have been so excited…

for a number of years, I’ve been overwintering dahlia corms, but haven’t had tons of luck… sometimes I know what they are and other times they are a surprise when they get put away…

one white one has proven very prolific and it has produced at least a dozen blooms so far this year in three different pots…

these are about the size of my palm…

a delightful feathery one that I purchased last year at Lilystone Gardens has come back nicely and has a number of blooms and buds in one pot…

each bloom is bigger than my hand…

these have all been white so I was particularly excited to see one come up in a pot that looked like it was pinky/purple…

it is a bit smaller than the white pompom-looking ones, but stands out in all its pink and purple hues…

nature is so amazing…

discovery…

26 Friday Jul 2024

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recently, I wrote about all the caterpillars and the butterflies that emerged and my hope that, as the milkweed has new leaves, another monarch mother might stop by and leave a few eggs…

well, on Thursday, this happened;-)…

I was very excited and after she left, and a bit of searching, made the discovery of at least four eggs…

babies, here we come;-)…

some…

16 Tuesday Jul 2024

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all of the rain has made some of the veggie garden plants quite happy…

the tomatoes are doing well and growing bigger each day…

the peapods are filling out rather nicely and I had my first peas… from just one pod, lol…

the beans are growing up the arch but don’t have any flowers yet and the cucumbers are very slow in flowering…

I think that I may need to plant more beans and even cucumbers… sadly the butternut squash seed did not produce…

and, finally the basil has started to fill the pot;-)…

comparison…

14 Sunday Jul 2024

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the clematis on the south side of the house has been outdoing itself this season… maybe it likes all the rain, lol…

I would say there are maybe a hundred buds or blossoms… and that is after two serious thunderstorms which knocked tons of petals off…

came across this photo from July, 2013…

at that point it was probably five or six years old… before this one we had probably planted five or six that all died…

nice to have the comparison as it is easy to forgot how much something has grown…

decimated…

29 Saturday Jun 2024

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on Tuesday we counted twenty monarch caterpillars on the milkweed in the garden…

they were all over the newest batch that was recently planted and have nearly decimated all the leaves…

they were also on the ones near the waterfall which were planted last summer… we’ve now taken out all the poppies so there is more room to be able to see the caterpillars…

there were none on the ones from last year which were located around the edge of the pond… these were the ones that I planted in a spot where I could see and photograph any butterflies, eggs and caterpillars that came along, lol…

there were some chives next to them so when Hilda the Gardener was here the other day I had her take them out… maybe the butterflies don’t like the smell…

so excited to have so many;-)…

hummingbirds…

22 Saturday Jun 2024

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we’ve been watching the hummingbird feeder since we arrived and on Tuesday, when we were at the table eating our supper we spotted the first one… having their meal too;-)…

Wednesday, while we were eating lunch, two of them had a little confrontation over who got to eat first…

Friday, while I was on the lower deck reading in the sun, one came right up to me before flying off… once you’ve heard a hummingbird, you always recognize the sound of their wings fluttering, lol…

what a treat;-)…