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beauty…

09 Saturday Aug 2014

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enjoyed a wander around the garden today…

IMG_7153.JPGa pink hibiscus was in full bloom…

IMG_7154.JPGlast night I enjoyed two of the ripe tomatoes, which were delicious… this one is just about ready…

IMG_7155.JPGone of the hydrangea blooms is so heavy it has fallen over… might look for something to stake it up…

IMG_7157.JPGwatered the hanging baskets and they are looking pretty good considering how hot it has been…

last night my daughter stopped by with this beautiful purple crockpot… I already have a nice silver and black one which she is going to take for her new kitchen…

IMG_7169.JPGperfect trade as far as I’m concerned, lol…

growing…

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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last night I watered the garden while waiting for supper…

the hydrangeas all have flowers and my daughter is rather jealous… hers are not doing anything…

20140805-214810-78490134.jpgam quite excited with the tomatoes which are turning colour…

20140805-214954-78594952.jpgstill really happy with my shrinking hose as my hands stay clean and my arms aren’t worn out from watering the baskets…

the planters at the front door look great…

20140805-215345-78825299.jpgconsidering my lack of attention to the garden, it really is amazing how well it is doing…

surprises…

30 Wednesday Jul 2014

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this morning it was beautiful and I couldn’t leave the garden without a wander around… noticed how the babies are growing… could see at least three different sizes…

found these lovely flowers in the purple begonia basket…

20140730-212950-77390777.jpgthey were a lovely surprise because I wasn’t expecting flowers on that plant…

tonight when I arrived at home the plants all needed a drink so I wandered around and gave each one a soaking…

as I was standing by the pond I looked down and saw more new babies… about the length of my little fingernail…

another great surprise was that the water lily that over wintered in the pond has put out some leaves…

unfortunately the water isn’t running yet as I wait to hear from a couple of people about how to clean out the pump which is under rocks… think it is clogged with string algae… now I am looking for String Algae Buster in Canada…

dragonfly…

19 Saturday Jul 2014

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spent a good portion of the day in the garden…

20140719-200950-72590820.jpgit was lovely and not too hot… another batch of plants are blooming… they could be the same as the purple ones, only smaller… dark pink/red, not sure how I feel about the colour…

first thing this morning a dragonfly landed on the screen and posed for a few pictures…

20140719-201526-72926223.jpgmoved my chair so I was sitting right beside the pond… saw lots of babies… white and red, white and black, and gold ones, which look black in the pond… sadly I’m having issues with algae, not sure the fancy uv filter is doing its job… frustrating because putting it in caused the waterfall flow to be less powerful…

did a bit of weeding and had a lovely nap…

read most of a paper book and also put on my big girl pants and barbecued steak and zucchini, with potatoes, onions and mushrooms…

20140719-202300-73380961.jpgrestful day, but missing my beloved…

beauty…

06 Sunday Jul 2014

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had a wonderful day in the garden…

spent time watching birds at the feeder… then a squirrel ran past me, swam across the pond and vanished under the cedar tree…

20140706-205339-75219925.jpgdon’t think this was the one who took the swim, but it wandered by as I was quietly sitting reading…

20140706-205656-75416132.jpgthe goldfinch flew right by me as well and landed on the flat rock that the water flows over for a drink… we were very close to one another…

the kids were over in the afternoon and spotted more baby fish… two different batches as there are three sizes swimming around… the five I found… a group half that size and some weeny ones that are all dark coloured but that might be because they are so tiny…

after everyone left I lay down on the floating chair without even putting on the cover and read and enjoyed the sounds of the garden…

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a day filled with beauty…

pictures…

25 Wednesday Jun 2014

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a couple of days ago my iPhone wouldn’t let me take a picture, because it said it was full… at the time I just deleted a few pictures and forgot about it…

earlier today a message flashed across my screen about memory being full…

tonight I spent about an hour copying and then deleting pictures…

I took this one as I was heading toward the car after dropping off our mail…

this sculpture is called Emptyful and has water coming down as well as mist floating through the air… at night the lights on it rotate through three or four colours…

empty/full...

emptyful…

you have to be careful which side you walk through so that you don’t get misted on… always seems to be misting on overcast cool days and it never mists on you on the hot days as you walk past…

the weather has been a bit odd, mainly cloudy and cool, and the blue sky was just starting to emerge  as I was leaving work… rain has been threatening for a few days but keeps holding off… tomorrow morning I am going to have to water the plants in the garden… that will probably bring the rain, lol…

surprised…

24 Tuesday Jun 2014

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was a long day at work and I had to stop and pick up some groceries for a meeting tomorrow, so by the time I drove up to the house I was feeling tired and a bit sorry for myself…

as I turned into the driveway the flower beds jumped out at me…

20140624-203504-74104910.jpgI realized that my son-in-law had been over and dug out most of the grass that was filling the bed…

20140624-203744-74264414.jpgthis showed what it looked like when we put the planters into it, and that was weeks ago…

I’ve been able to see the grass moving from the living room while sitting down, lol…

apparently my irises have been blooming and I didn’t even know it…

besides the two flower beds he also mowed the grass in the front yard and the back garden…

perked me right up…

now I have to decide whether to just put down newspaper over the bed and around the plants in it or dig up the five or six plants I want to keep and put them into pots on top of the newspaper which will kill the grass under it…

hmmmmm…

unexpected…

22 Sunday Jun 2014

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had a very poor sleep last night… when I got up I started the day with a hot tub…

20140622-195524-71724240.jpgafter a shower I sat out in the garden and read and thought about doing a bit of weeding…

designed and printed a birthday card for my grandson, which I was able to do from my chair in the garden, thanks to some of the work of my son-in-law when they were here last weekend…

was just thinking about making something to eat when my daughter texted to let me know she was at the hospital with a possible broken foot…

spent the next three hours with her in Emergency…

20140622-200238-72158166.jpgshe was right, it was broken and they put a splint on it… we made it to their house for the birthday party with an hour to spare…

helped with the party and got a ride home and am now heading for bed… the day didn’t turn out quite as planned or expected…

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ahhhhh…

21 Saturday Jun 2014

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was supposed to rain, so I got up early and had a peaceful hot tub to start the day…

then into the garden to read and enjoy a cup of tea…

20140621-191900-69540956.jpglately I’ve been using a travel mug so that my tea doesn’t get filled with elm seeds, lol, although I think they are just about finished raining down from the trees…

20140621-192406-69846634.jpgsome areas of the garden are stunning, while others need work…

spent a bit of time preparing five pounds of potato salad for the nine year old’s birthday party tomorrow…

20140621-193102-70262512.jpgnever did rain but a few times there was thunder and spectacular clouds…

20140621-193244-70364622.jpga good day…

decisions…

07 Saturday Jun 2014

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started planting while it was still shady in the garden, but ran out of soil so couldn’t do any more for the time being…

my grandson arrived and the two of us planned next weekend’s activities around the scattering of George’s ashes…

once the plan was made we had to decide on the location which took us a while…

20140607-214109-78069509.jpgthen we headed out to do a few errands…

ate lunch, picked up some soil, checked out plants, grabbed a few things we will need on the weekend at the Dollar Store and found some fish for the second pond…

came home, had a rest and basically finished the planting…

20140607-214428-78268429.jpgthroughout the day the elm tree has been raining down thousands of seeds… the pond was full of them even though we cleaned a bunch out…

20140607-214613-78373711.jpgwe got all the planting paraphernalia put away and my helper was picked up… I sat out in the garden enjoying the day…

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20140607-215431-78871488.jpgit was lovely to have his company today:-)…