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15 Friday Sep 2023

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we moved into this house in September of 1973… 50 years ago:-)…

this is rather astonishing to me, lol…

early on, there was a lot of red everywhere, inside and out… then we went to some light pink, gray, and finally to touches of purple…

the garden started out as a grassed square, then a space for a kid swing set, a small pool, a giant sandbox, a two story playhouse, and then plants and ponds…

so many changes, so many memories;-)…

what a life…

brightening…

08 Friday Sep 2023

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while I was searching for a plant pot in the garage recently, I came across my pond floats…

been wondering where they were, lol…

my beloved found three for me a number of years ago, and the purple one I made when we went to a glass blowing class in Seattle…

they would have looked nice with all the water lilies, but now they are brightening up the pond instead of the flowers;-)…

guide…

03 Sunday Sep 2023

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Tuesday, a friend picked me up and we had a wander through the Diversity Gardens…

it was her first time there and I enjoyed being the tour guide, lol…

we were so busy catching up that I barely took any photos…

I did take some of a few grasses we thought might work in the garden between the cedars which might cover it a bit more of the chain link now that the neighbours have removed their planters…

from there, we drove over and walked through the English sand Leo Mol Gardens…

we spent some time relaxing on a bench by the pond and learning about Pokémon as I have just started playing again and now have my own account;-)…

allée…

30 Wednesday Aug 2023

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on Sunday we went for a walk around Assiniboine Park to catch Pokémon… apparently it was a special event around the world… it was hot and sunny…

there were people everywhere… many of them with their heads down, focussed on their phones, with cords connecting to power packs in their pockets, lol…

we walked around the allée that circles the Diversity Gardens… it was fully shaded and there were many people along the way…

from there we walked across the Park to the English and Leo Mol Gardens… it was a long way, lol… we stopped now and then for a rest and sip of our water, and got to walk down one of my favourite paths…

it has been months since I’ve been to the Gardens, so it was a treat… besides all the people, there were lots of flowers in bloom with beautiful water lilies, and frogs, in the English Garden…

the cricket fields had some good items as we headed back to the car…

nice to enjoy a walk, although my feet were a little tired;-)…

left-out…

08 Tuesday Aug 2023

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been looking through my photos and came across a few pond pictures which demonstrate how crazy the water lily has gone, lol…

this is it yesterday…

this was last year about the same time…

and the year before…

still not sure if it is the weather or a response to being left-out over the winter…

crickets…

04 Friday Aug 2023

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been wondering if the evening sounds I’ve been hearing are crickets or frogs…

pretty much came to the conclusion that they were crickets as I haven’t seen any signs of a frog around the pond…

and then…

Wednesday morning, look who popped up on the bridge;-)…

the sound might still be the crickets, but what a treat to spot this little leopard frog;-)…

and in the last few days it has been all over;-)…

rigged…

03 Thursday Aug 2023

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spent a bit of time getting all the chairs out, as well as cushions, for our Monday afternoon gathering…

even rigged an umbrella over an additional chair to be sure everyone had shade…

before that, I used the same umbrella to provide a bit of shade for the creeping thyme that we moved on Saturday… hoping it likes the new spot and starts to cover a bit more ground, lol…

multiply…

19 Wednesday Jul 2023

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strange happenings with the milkweed…

I am very happy as they continue to multiply…

not too many caterpillars, and they seem to nest on the plants closer to a wall rather than the ones nearest to the pond… maybe there is more protection from predators there… too bad for me, as pictures are easier beside the pond, lol…

the odd thing is that the plants along the edge of the pond, all with the same origin, have produced two different coloured flowers…

the usual pink/purple flowers…

and these white ones which are turning yellow…

will be interesting to see what they do next year, lol…

iteration…

17 Monday Jul 2023

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the current iteration of the pond is ten years old…

hard to believe that much time has passed…

this is how it looked just as it was completed…

after it was finished, they had to come back and deal with leaking and runoff…nearly all of the plants have changed over time, lol… and I have changed the slate around the edge of the pond for large river rocks…

it still loses water when the waterfall is running and this year I have left if off for a good portion of the time… I also think the fish are out and about more when it isn’t running, lol… I do have a bubbler going all the time…

this year the water lilies are extremely happy… they continue to produce blooms daily, it is both amazing and delightful…

today, I turned the waterfall on and realized that I’d been missing it, and how well it dilutes other sounds in the neighbourhood…

cupcakes…

09 Sunday Jul 2023

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enjoyed the sun in the garden on Saturday and had a visitor who brought cupcakes from High Tea Bakery…

we shared two of them and they were very tasty…

really, there is nothing better than spending time in the garden with a good friend;-)…