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Garden Update
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece” - Claude MonetIt's been a while since I've updated on my garden and things have been growing like crazy. We've been hit with stretches of hot, sunny, summer...
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Macro Wednesday: Dandelion Seed Heads
"A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”-Dorothea LangeHappy Wednesday my dear friends! I hope this day finds you in great spirit and health.My field of dandelions in the yard is...
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Who Am I?
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - AristotleAfter reading Jan's beautiful post about who she really is, I knew I had to write a similar post about myself. Maybe through her...
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Friday Kitty Corner
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood KrutchGood afternoon my dear friends, it's Friday! I am ridiculously excited at the prospect of...
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Saturday Tea Talk: What is your favourite hot beverage?
Time for you and time for me,And time yet for a hundred indecisions,And for a hundred visions and revisions,Before the taking of toast and teaT.S. EliotGood morning my lovely friends and happy...
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Sunday Scrambled Ramblings
It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.- Marion CranGood morning my dear friends! Second day of the weekend is here and it's just as gorgeous as...
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Murphy's Law
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”- Charles R. SwindollHello my dear friends, I hope this new week is treating you good.Do you know what Murphy's Law is? I do and I know it...
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Garden Update
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson,...
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Messenger by Lois Lowry
“Now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from...
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Rain... Where is the rain?
“It's so dry the trees are bribing the dogs.” - Charles MartinGood afternoon my dear friends, I hope this day finds you in great health and spirit.My day has found me in excellent spirit as I freed up...
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Happy Birthday Derek!
At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. – By Jim BishopFive kids, four birthdays and today is the last one of them for this year. My only son Derek is turning 19. Important age for...
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Saturday Tea Talk: Golden Monkey from Teavivre
The soil.The elevation.The climate.The sunshine.The rain.The tea.Body.Mind.Equanimity.Harmony.Water.Tea.- The Minister of LeavesHappy Saturday my dear friends, I hope you're having yourself a great...
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Sunday Scrambled Ramblings
“The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.” - Robert FrostRAIN! RAIN!...
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June already!
"What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfilment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever...
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Full Strawberry Moon
Was that right, orMaybe a rose moonShared that night in JuneHovering behindA curtain of mistHumid airOn my lensesStare at our satelliteSee the face in orangeAnd dusty roseFull moon, new bloodAcross the...
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Photo Wedesday: Frogs and toads
“Photography is a love affair with life.”- Burk UzzleGood afternoon my dear friends and happy Wednesday. We have got ourselves a middle of the week already and I hope this week is treating you all...
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Thursday thoughts
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words...
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Friday Kitty Corner: Meet Little Alaska
“A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.” - Robert SowtheyHello my dear friends! It's Friday, weekend is here and I hope it's finding you all in great spirit and health.We...
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Saturday Tea Talk: 2011 Wild Mountain Green Puer
Steam rises from a cup of teaand we are wrapped in history,inhaling ancient times and lands,comfort of ages in our hands.~Faith GreenbowlOh glorious Saturday, how much I love you so. Sleeping in is...
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Sunday Scrambled Ramblings
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHello my dear friends and happy Sunday to all. I'm having a late start to the day and loving it.It...
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Nibble in the big tree
“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” - Ralph EllisonHello my dear friends and happy Tuesday to all. It's a rainy one for us here in Southern Ontario and that is simply great. After a very dry...
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Strawberries!
“Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the...
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Friday Kitty Corner: Does your cat scratch around the food bowl?
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” - Leonardo da VinciHello my dear friends and happy Friday! Yet another weekend is upon us and I couldn't be happier. Just less than two weeks left until the end...
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Saturday Tea Talk: Qianjiazhai Old Growth 2012 Sheng
Up in a tree Fairies sit to have their tea. With china cups and china plates They eat their dainty fairy cakes. The table cloth is cobweb lace, A name card sits at every place. A warm moss upon the...
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Sunday Scrambled Ramblings
Suddenly all the sky is hidAs with the shutting of a lid,One by one great drops are fallingDoubtful and slow,Down the pane they are crookedly crawling,And the wind breathes low;Slowly the circles widen...
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