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  • getting my hands dirty

    getting my hands dirty

    Healthy Mindset – Day 12 It was 12 degrees (celsius) on the weekend, and in the sun, it felt more like 25 degrees. That got me dreaming of gardening. Once the warm weather hits, I predict gardening is going to replace bread baking as the new “it” activity. I usually plant flowers, tomatoes and herbs…

  • all these things…

    “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” ― Oscar Wilde

  • Angel’s Trumpet

    When I pick out my flowers in the spring, I like to choose a few I’ve never planted before or ones I don’t plant every year…this year’s pick was Angel’s Trumpet.  It’s very easy to grow, but when I looked up more information on it after I bought it, I discovered it’s actually highly toxic…

  • to brighten a cold February day

    Just a pretty tulip to brighten a cold February day…  

  • daisies at Orveas Bay

    These are daisies at Orveas Bay Resort on Vancouver Island near Sooke (about 45 minutes from Victoria).  I spent about an hour one morning just wandering around taking pictures of all the daisies on the property.  It was one of my favourite memories of that trip (and I highly recommend staying at Orveas Bay if…

  • pretty petunias in summer sun

    All I could see when I walked in the door was bright summer sunshine on my petunias a few minutes ago….    

  • petunias

    Petunias on my balcony…

  • fuchsia

    I always buy one Fuchsia plant for my balcony every spring – two years ago it bloomed well into September, last year it died by this time, and this year it’s hanging in there and is going to erupt in blooms again any day now. (I took these pictures in late June.)

  • Lake Louise Tulips

    Just some pretty tulips spotted by the Chateau Lake Louise sign (I was happier with this picture than with the pictures I took of Lake Louise, actually).

  • Butchart Gardens Close-ups

    A few of my favourite shots from Butchart Gardens in Victoria….

  • featured daisy

    Since daisies are my favourite flowers, I was thrilled to see so many wild daisies at Orveas Bay Resort.  One morning I spent about an hour with my camera just trying to capture them in different ways.  Here’s one… ….and to continue from yesterday’s post, after I thought about what I wrote, I realized a…

  • petunias and blue sky

    This has been a pretty perfect weekend weather-wise – hello summer!  Went grocery shopping yesterday before supper and everyone looked sun-kissed (or burnt!) and mellow and just content.  We had what seemed like six months of winter (the sad part is that’s not a big exaggeration), we needed this summer weather. Now I have to…