If you’re in our area and you get the Etobicoke Guardian, you will have seen the Long Branch Garden Tour featured on the front page of the paper yesterday! The Long Branch Gardeners really appreciate the support of our fantastic community newspaper. You can read… Read More
Our latest mosaic project is one of the friendliest birds around, the black-capped chickadee. We made this one with a combination of broken crockery and smalti tiles. You can see more of our mosaic work at the Long Branch Mosaics site. We do all kinds… Read More
Jerron Paxton…
This morning’s nature walk with Miles Hearn took place at Wilket Creek Park, the sister park to Sunnybrook Park. Not all Ruby-crowned Kinglets show red markings on their heads. I saw this one as we were looking for a house wren which was calling in… Read More
We’ve replaced the boring wooden gate in between the front side of our house with a swanky new gate, welded up from odds & ends by our friend Mike Retallick AKA around here as East Texas Red. Mike came down yesterday from his place near… Read More
Our first woodpecker mosaic – a Northern Flicker. It’s about a metre beak to tail. This piece is a donation for the upcoming Salah Bachir Show in support of St. Joseph’s Health Centre and will be available at the silent auction at that event. We… Read More
Tuffy P writing tonight.. this is an image of my grandmother, Mary Jane when she was 17. It was taken in Toronto in the former Eaton’s department store on Yonge Street. Here’s the story of how I came to know this photo’s story 103 years… Read More
At Lambton Woods in the early spring, you can be sure to come across quite a bit of skunk cabbage. What a fascinating plant. The Latin name for this plant is Symplocarpus foetidus. It grows in wetlands and blooms in the very early spring. In… Read More
