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Photographee examines the camera

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I don’t know who the photographer was, but they managed to capture a once in a life time shot!

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The Blue Jays around here aren’t very friendly.

Sure, they’ll eat from the bird feeders and visit some of my plants, but the minute that either my husband or I go outside or one of our neighbors enters their yard the Blue Jays are gone. I’d never get a shot of a Blue Jay landing on a hand held camera in a million years!

It’s been quite rainy here in Toronto today, but the rain has just stopped and the suns out … who knows for how long … but I’m going to try to go out and get a little gardening done.  I have some annuals to plant in planters and a few bulbs to plant in the garden beds.  It would be nice if I could get this stuff done before it begins to rain again!






Sunny days and Snowy days

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Here in Toronto it’s been snowing on and off for two days now, but we had a lovely Saturday.

It reached 14 Celsius – perfect weather for taking pictures of the flowers that were blooming and the new plants coming up out of the ground.

Chris and I spent a few hours on Saturday cleaning up the front garden and the planted boulevard.

It looked great … lots of new life and my roses all survived the winter as far as I can tell. Too bad everything’s covered in a light layer of snow right now!

Here’s what my now snow covered and likely wilting crocus’ looked like on Saturday …

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It was lovely to look out my Kitchen window and see all those flowers blooming in the grass. So pretty!

How’s your garden and for that matter, the weather in your area this week?

Brilliant Black-eyed Susans

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Wordless Wednesday

Black eyed susans

The Black-Eyed Susans are still blooming quite happily in my garden. They’ll probably be one of the last flowers to stop blooming.

I love their brilliant yellow color.

The clump in the photograph is approximately two and a half feet wide and stands about two and a half feet tall. It would be even larger if I’d let it, but I had to pull out some of the new growth that was beginning to interfere with other plants.

They’d take over the garden if I’d let them!

It’s going to be very cold tonight (7 Celsius or 44 F). I hope we don’t get a frost!

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