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Wordless Wednesday
Well after all that snow and our long cold winter it’s finally sunny over here in Toronto!
It’s a nice change. It’s been so dark and gray the sun is almost like a special treat.
I was just thinking yesterday as I watched our puppy lying in the kitchen with the sun shining on her sleek black coat that she hasn’t seen much sun yet in her short life. Nor has she really been able to enjoy lying in a sun beam.
I think she’ll be a real sun love just like these sunflowers!
It’s hard to believe that in only a month and a half or so I’ll be looking at scenes like this in my front yard. The picture above is of tulips in bloom beside the previous autumns dried up Sedum flower heads. I’d neglected to remove the dried Sedum flowers in the fall and frankly I tend not to remove them as I think they look nice in the winter garden, however I was behind last spring as I’ve usually removed them by the time the tulips are in full bloom! The greenery behind the flowers are clumps of day lilies, not yet blooming, in my planted boulevard garden.
So why am I finding it so hard to believe that Spring will ever arrive? Well look at this:
I spent at least four hours shoveling snow yesterday and I’m just about to go outside to shovel again. I’ll probably be out there for at least an hour as the snow plows have gone by twice since I last shoveled and the sidewalk plow went by once as well! Groan. My back is aching! At least I’m getting some exercise!
Worse of all is the fact that we’re the second house from the corner and our stupid neighbor always parks his car on the street – especially during big snow storms. So the plow takes all the snow as it passes the side street, our neighbors and our house and then has to swerve out into the middle of the street to avoid our neighbors car. This ends up dumping a ton of snow right at the end of our driveway.
See the right side of the photo? See how the one snow bank leads far out into the street? Yeah … I shoveled that and it reaches almost to the center of the street thanks to our rude neighbor.
My husband out of town this weekend. So I shoveled our driveway and then I even went over to the neighbors and asked him if he’d like to park his car in our driveway so that the plows could clear the street properly. He said no as he thinks his car is too big for our small driveway … but his car is the same size or smaller. Grrr
I think I’ll send him my chiropractor bill as I’m sure I’ll have to go after all this shoveling! LOL
Here’s another look at all our snow from our driveway. We got over 30 cm in the last 24 hours and so far this winter we’re close to breaking the record for most snowfall in Toronto ever!
The snow banks on either side of our driveway are close to six feet tall.
Hurry up Spring!!!
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My garden is still blanketed in a heavy coat of snow. There’s perhaps two or two and a half feet of snow across my whole backyard including the garden beds. I’m actually happy about that.
Why? Well most winters around here it snows a little bit and then it warms up, the snow melts, then it gets really cold and my poor little plants are left to bare the cold naked without any cover. Well baring any leaves that we might have piled onto the beds in the fall.
Now underneath all that snow my plants are hibernating. They’re insulated from the freezing winter winds.
I’m sure it won’t last much longer. We’re bound to get some warmer weather soon and with luck it will just keep warming up.
Some of the first flowers to emerge when the snow melts away will be the Crocus’. They’re beautiful spring flowers. I love how they open in the sun and as the afternoon goes by and the sun loses it’s strength each flower slowly closes until it’s petals touch. Crocus blooms will last for about five or so days, opening and closing each day.
As much as I hate all the snow we have I know it’s there for a reason. It’s protecting my garden. Soon though, it will be time for those first flowers of spring.
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