Tulips in January
Tulips in January may not be seasonal, but they sure are cheerful. When you look out the window and it feels like there must be six more months of winter, the pop of colourful flowers brightens the day.
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July Showers on Garden Flowers
So many blog posts and so little time….these photos are from the beginning of July, and somehow we are already in the middle of August. I’ve been busy this summer working on so many warm-weather projects; mostly furniture refinishing and gardening related things and while I’ve been taking photos along the way, they aren’t managing to get from the camera to the blog.
Like these flower photos I took after a rainstorm on July 6. It was one of those bright, hot, sunny days without a cloud in the sky, when suddenly I looked out the window and realized there were dark storm clouds to the North. I jumped up and ran outside to take the laundry off the line, first moving at a measured pace, and then gradually moving faster and faster as the raindrops started falling and I managed to grab the last item off the line and leap to safety under the front stoop as the heavens opened and a torrential downpour covered the earth! It must have looked comical to the birds who bore witness. After the rain had passed, I took a walk outside, with my camera.
And now I am finally sharing the photos here.
I hope your summer is going splendidly and I hope to have more posts to share soon!
June Showers
We’ve had a cold and rainy spring this year. While that means the weeds are getting watered as well as the seeds, I much prefer rainy springs to hot and dry ones. I haven’t gotten my camera out as much this spring as in past years; I’m having troubles with the focus, and need to upgrade to a new camera body (mine is 15 years old!) but until then, I’ll just keep muddling along with this one and hoping for the best. If the focus is a bit soft, I’ll just pretend it’s a vintage filter effect.
Anyway, the other day, when there was a pause in the rain showers, I ran out and took a few photos of my mom’s front garden which is currently a beautiful blend of colour, with even more to come in the next weeks.
These are dandelion seed heads that have been flattened from the rain- don’t they look beautiful?
Social Saturday | January 13 (Winter at Last)
I think that Winter is making up for lost time! After such a warm November and December, we finally got a bit of snow last week and then this week a cold snap with temperatures in the low minus 30’s (celsius). While I’m not enjoying the cold as much, I am loving the beautiful frost!
I know this blog sometimes seems like just a record of frosty trees, but it was so beautiful I had to snap some photos while out for a walk on several days. I don’t usually get photos like this in the Winter because there are snow drifts blocking me from walking anywhere but the road, so it was nice to be able to walk among the trees and enjoy the winter scenery from that vantage point.
Social Saturday | September 2 (Ducklings!)
I don’t know why I didn’t post these photos back in June… I didn’t even sort and edit them at the time, but they are too cute to leave languishing in a folder!
My mom got Khaki Campbell ducklings this year, in the hopes she can raise them for eggs. They are almost fully grown now (though still a few more months before they are laying), so it’s fun to look back and see what they looked like a couple of months ago.
