fields…

16 Wednesday Jul 2025

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this morning we drove to Miss Millie’s Flower Farm and had a lovely time in the fields…

my adventure buddy gathered flowers, and I gathered photographs with my Nikon… great fun for both of us…

of the 125 photos I took, I was very pleased with about 75…

the weather was perfect, overcast and cool, and there were few bugs… we had been there in August of 2022 and the mosquitoes had been voracious at that time…

the fields were not as far along due to the weather but it is a beautiful place to spend time in… so happy I remembered that taking pictures was more fun for me than gathering flowers;-)… and nice to get the camera out for a change;-)…

I also brought home some fresh eggs and a new tea mug (Sugar & Spice Pottery);-)…

scraggly…

15 Tuesday Jul 2025

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great excitement over the last while when I discovered two different new buds…

the first one I noted was the tiny little buds on the mandevilla…

it had been looking very scraggly when it came out from the house…

and then, just a few days ago, I spotted a bud on the hibiscus;-)…

can’t wait to see the blooms as they open…

climbed…

14 Monday Jul 2025

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while I was on a phone call, I looked out the window to see two bunnies…

one climbed up the front steps and I caught it on the way down, lol…

from there it went into the flower bed and ate the morning glory plant that had popped up in the mulch… happy it was one of the “wild” ones, lol…

then the two of them headed to the other side of the yard looking for treats…

a few minutes later a third one turned up…

what fun out the window;-)…

farmers…

13 Sunday Jul 2025

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finally made it to a farmers market today… when I worked we would often get to the market which was either beside, or in, the Hydro building…

this is just a small one, located in the parking lot of a fairly close grocery store…

so excited to get peas, yay… and carrots, radishes, green and regular onions, garlic, asparagus, baby potatoes (both white and red), and dill…

so far I’ve had peas with my lunch and supper, lol…

next up will be potatoes with peas, carrots, asparagus, and dill… yum…

standoff…

12 Saturday Jul 2025

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on Friday evening the doorbell cam advised there was an animal in the front yard (bit fuzzy)…

I ran downstairs to watch out the window and was quite happy watching the two deer…

until one started to eat the plants in one of the planters…

I knocked on the window but it didn’t scare it…

stared right back at me…

and as I watched them head to the hostas next door, I went outside to scare them away…

but they really didn’t want to go… they even started walking towards me, but after about a three minute standoff, they finally crossed the street and headed toward the creek…

shelling…

11 Friday Jul 2025

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this morning I picked the peas from the side garden;-)…

had to use the step stool to get the higher ones and my housemate picked the last couple that I couldn’t reach…

I spent a lovely fifteen minutes shelling them…

then boiled and ate them for lunch…

yum, what a treat;-)…

disintegrate…

08 Tuesday Jul 2025

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so happy to see that the morning glories are opening…

the butterfly bench hasn’t had any open lately but the planter by the backdoor has been blooming over the last few days… today there were three…

then, as I was driving out of the garage, I stopped the car, got out and took photos of the blooms by the large garage door…

the blooms don’t last long and if it rains they kind of disintegrate, so I wanted to be sure to get a photo of them;-)…

qualifying…

06 Sunday Jul 2025

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lovely start to the day on Saturday, with a 4:30 am hot tub… it was cool, sky was just beginning to lighten, birds were singing, and clouds drifted above…

back to sleep for a while and then got to watch qualifying for Sunday’s F1 race at Silverstone…

and one of my favourites got pole position…

was able to turn off the fans and open all the windows to get some fresh, cool, air into the house, which was wonderful after the last few days of sizzling heat…