I like the latest bird mosaic sitting in the garden behind the bear’s breeches because you don’t see it right away when you walk into the gardens. Eventually, those bear’s breeches will expand. We’ve seen them with many spikes. When that happens, the scarlet tanager… Read More
After taking the dogs for their Sunday morning walk, I snapped a few shots of the canoe garden. Strange sky. Is it going to rain? It’s still so humid my camera lens fogs up when I start taking pictures. A few notes on the new… Read More
Jerry has an amazing capacity to handle the heat. He lies around on the bench or the deck or the porch and just roasts in the sun.
….when is he going to post pictures of that canoe garden…..I’m going to snap a bunch in the morning.
Most people around here do most of their planting in the spring. Our circumstance is a little different in that this season we have expanded our gardens mid-summer – and added a canoe garden. The new gardens are partially planted but we saved some room… Read More
By this evening, Ellie’s limp disappeared again. We took the girls out to a dog park for a little socializing. Tuffy P brought the camera.
Ellie Mae, one of our Newfoundland dogs, has been experiencing a mysterious problem with one of her front legs. Twice in the last couple weeks, inexplicably, she’s started limping. Within a day or two, the limp has disappeared. Our vet examined her this morning, but… Read More
Your Daily Dose…. Did I mention I love fiddle music?
Among the joys of a stay-cation is that I can dig up a Daily Dose anytime I feel like it. Here’s Yves Lambert, a favourite here at 27th Street, with his trio, performing Le Père Tanasse
Hypomyces lactifluorum, AKA the lobster mushroom, is one of the more common choice edible wild mushrooms in the Southern Ontario forests I visit. I’ve written about lobsters a number of times before. They’re unusual in that the mushrooms we pick as lobster mushrooms are in… Read More
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