Click picture to view in large size I have been out birding every day this week in grey, cold and windy conditions and have seen very few new birds for the January count. I will do an update post later for this week. I drove to Guelph, Ontario to a conservation area which has feeders [...]
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Friday "Flowers": Tree Ornaments
Posted in birds, friday flowers, this and that on January 8, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Friday Flowers: More California Blooms
Posted in friday flowers, vacations on November 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco By the end of October, we have usually had a killing frost in southern Ontario and our garden is dormant for the season. I appreciated the beauty of every flower seen on our recent vacation as it will be late April before flowers appear again at home. The tourist stop [...]
Friday Flowers: California Blooms
Posted in friday flowers, vacations on November 13, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Bougainvillea Bloom One of my patients recommended that we spend time in the Pacific Grove/ Monterey area of California on our road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles. She told me about the Monarch butterflies which over winter in the area and I was determined to stop there. We stayed at a lovely place [...]
Friday Flowers: Preparing for Next Season
Posted in friday flowers, nature on September 18, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The last of our summer flowers are in bloom, Chrysanthemum, Fall Crocus, Asters, Rose of Sharon, Goldenrod, Autumn Joy Sedum… Walking through the city and along nature trails, the evidence of flowers which bloomed weeks or months ago remains. While the flowers were pretty, the seeds produced after the flower died are far more important [...]
Friday Flowers: Insect Visitors
Posted in friday flowers on September 11, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Wild blooms along the road turn to the sun and open their faces to bees. Dragonflies skim the water resting on flowers of grasses along the bank. Pollen clings to the body of a bumblebee deep in the hibiscus bloom. Asters offer sweet food for the long journey of the Monarch Butterfly. HAVE A WONDERFUL [...]
Friday Flowers: Diversity
Posted in friday flowers on September 4, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Ginger wrote a post entitled Lessons from the Gardens and described her recent visit to Butchart Gardens near Victoria, British Columbia. I hope to have the opportunity of seeing them some day. In her usual wise way Ginger drew a number of life lessons from her observation of these beautiful formal gardens. Here is a [...]
Friday Flowers: Late Summer Garden
Posted in friday flowers on August 28, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Summer did not arrive until August this year and it appears to be merging into autumn already. We did have a few hot days which encouraged some growth, particularly of my tomatoes, and with our frequent rains everything has stayed green and fresh. This summer has not been kind to local farmers who needed hot, [...]
Friday Flowers: Bird Seed
Posted in birds, friday flowers on August 14, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Chickadees and Goldfinches love the seeds of Purple Coneflowerswhich bloom in abundance in our garden in August.I don’t cut the fading blooms as they arethe ones the birds choose to feed on.Have a great weekend andtake time to enjoy the beauty around you!
Friday Flowers: Yellow Wildflowers
Posted in friday flowers on July 31, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Driving down a rural road a few weeks ago, I came across two young Mennonite girls, barefooted, picking wildflowers in a meadow. Wearing bonnets and print dresses, their arms full of bright flowers, they made a lovely picture in the late afternoon sun. Sometimes you cannot stop a take a picture as it is intrusive [...]
Friday Flowers: Memories of Grandma’s Garden
Posted in family, friday flowers on June 27, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Grandma’s House and Grandma -undated photosClick photo to enlarge My mother’s parents built a big house near the main intersection of the small town where they practiced medicine. The doctor’s office was accessed through the side door near the driveway. The windows on the left lower window looked out from the waiting room and the [...]
