For years I have rushed out to take a photo of the first crocuses (croci?) up in my garden.
After the monochromatic season of winter, it’s so wonderful to see colour.
Continue reading “First Croci”For years I have rushed out to take a photo of the first crocuses (croci?) up in my garden.
After the monochromatic season of winter, it’s so wonderful to see colour.
Continue reading “First Croci”I suspect the last thing anyone wants to see right now is more winter. But I did take a few images that I didn’t get a chance to share while my site was in limbo, like the porch smokers in the fog above.
And this photo of the only other person I saw out during this sleety blizzard.
Over the winter I went out for a walk just about every morning. Even when it was minus 30.
Sometimes I’d go out again in the evening to stretch my legs and clear my head.
There were a lot of foggy nights.
And there were a lot of blizzards.
This gentleman, below, was making his way home through a particularly dense but “gentle” blizzard.
The snow was so thick there were very few cars, each going very slowly.
The sidewalks were impassable so the gentleman was walking up the middle of George street where the slow traffic had tamped down the snow.
When I asked him, as he pushed his wheeled walking-aid through the slush, if he was okay getting home, he smiled and said he was fine. It was a warm night, in spite of the snow. Then he laughed and said, it’s like this for me every winter.
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Not to leave you with images of winter bleakness, here’s an early tulip that opened this week.
I’m looking forward to a near future of flowers and warmer weather.
And maybe we can create a not too distant future in which it’s easier for everyone get around in winter (and all the time).
I haven’t posted in a very long time. Web site issues. Camera issues. COVID issues. World issues.
It’s been hard to do anything over the last couple of years. Yes? We’re all struggling in our own ways.
Continue reading “Spring Crocuses Return”I have been having a war with the squirrels for a few years now.
When I first planted my garden over two decades ago, they mostly left it alone. But as the years have passed, they have become more and more aggressive. I have tried absolutely everything you can possibly imagine to deter them, but to no effect.
Continue reading “Squirrels, Squiddles, SQRLS”Being “stuck” at home is never a bad thing for me if it’s spring.
My garden is erupting in colour.
Continue reading “Spring Flowers”Continuing on my new obsession with flowering plants that grow conveniently within arms reach, here are three with really tiny flowers that happen to have blossoms right now. Continue reading “Tiny Flowers”
I had been neglecting this geranium and over the years it became a spindly length of stalks with a few leaves. But late this summer I re-potted it. Continue reading “Flowers, Bees, Musics”
Every year around this time my aster plant becomes a magnet for wasps and bees. They love the masses of pollen tucked within the florets. Continue reading “Bee Condo (Aster Heights)”
It almost feels like it’s safe to say that spring is really here.
The first of the flowers, like this bold daffodil, are finally opening their buds. Continue reading “April Flowers”
I’ve been busy for the last couple of weeks, so I haven’t had a chance to post. But I was able to get out and enjoy some spring air this week, so I’m posting quite a few shots to make up for lost posts. Continue reading “Spring Comes Slowly”