My garden wouldn’t be complete without an assortment of flowers popping out of an array of planters scattered about.
Containers of Beauty
Hello Again
It’s reassuring and rewarding to walk through the garden and see old friends rising up to greet another season. Hello again my lovelies, I’m so glad to see you!
Playing Peony Peek-a-Boo
With one just open and most on the verge of bursting, the peonies are about to put on their show-stopping performance in the 2019 garden! I wait with baded, impatient breath!
Happy Canada Day Long Weekend!
The Turtle Pond
I am blessed and thankful to be surrounded by nature every day. My drive to and from town includes a long stretch along one country road. The turtle pond – long called this because of the abundance of turtles one can see sunning themselves on warm spring, summer and early Fall days, is also home to a myriad of other wildlife including beaver, frogs, otters, mink, ducks, the occasional goose and great blue heron, insects, and on rare occasions, deer.
To some it’s just a pond, but to me, it’s an amazing oasis to be admired and appreciated every day.
Wild Beauty
We’re now into the early days of summer and everywhere you look around the Parry Sound area, roadsides, ditches and meadows are filled with a beautiful collage of wildflowers. Pollinators are busy collecting nectar, songbirds are singing the joys of warm days and new life, and the living is indeed easy, and a feast for the eyes!
Reflections on Summer
Everything today looks, feels and sounds like summer.
Fellow Traveler
A fellow traveler along our countryroad this morning (I made sure she/he got safely off the road).
Rise of the ferns
The wild ferns have once again, grown up and filled out beautifully.
Lilacs – My Spring Passion
For as l
ong as I can remember, lilacs have occupied a special place in my memories and appreciation of spring.
Growing up in the big city, I remember a bank of lilacs that bordered our backyard. There was a treasured swing set that was positioned parallel to the lilacs and to this very day, if I close my eyes, I can still feel myself swinging while smelling that intoxicating fragrance wafting through the warm spring breeze.
I have long since left childhood behind, but some memories, like those lilacs, remain imbedded in my mind as if I were once again swinging to and fro on that swing.
Lilacs are my spring flowering shrub, the one plant that I long to see, long to smell, and the one plant I couldn’t bear not seeing this time of year.
So in honour of this passion, I drove around Parry Sound last weekend, photographing some of the stands of lilacs that pepper the town.
I wish lilacs would bloom all season.
