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Friday, April 28, 2006

Join us for a walk... in the garden

In Our Enchanted Garden!

Spring in the garden is progressing nicely and touches of colour are beginning to show. Soon this view will be full as the plants grow in and perform their flowering magic. The colours will change every few weeks as a new variety comes on and an earlier one finishes.

It's a dance, a living tapestry, a collection of life, a symphony of creation at it's best!

Nature is the boss in this patch of garden. Other than the tidying up that I do as flower varieties continually come and go over the spring and summer weeks there's not much else required from us. It's a nice spot to enjoy the sunrises and the sunsets on our street, have a coffee or chat with the neighbours and passers by!

This is Our Enchanted Garden - the meadow we built and dedicated to nature as an experiment of humans and the natural world living co-creatively!

Hope you enjoyed the little stroll, do come back - the garden changes every few days and there's always something happening!

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Shots like this are why I LUV the natural world!

Impressive view of a Hyacinth in full bloom with all its' luscious colour!

After a few good days of rain and a bit of a cool spell that might last another day, the hyacith are now open in all their splendor. The fragrance is amazing too, so sweet!

This is what a gardener waits for in the spring - the beauty of bulb plants really add a whole new dimension to a garden, prolonging its' blooming period for months! And for a gardener this little hint of colour is true delight long before the tiny plants in the greenhouse will be able to come outside and thrive.

Another lovely shot that day was taken of an American Robin,(Birds of North America, Guide to Field Identificaton, Golden Press, NY).
I asked this robin for one good pose!
He surprized me by turning and looking right at me after I'd asked if he'd give me one good pose! (I have the previous shot 100-3691 of the bird facing backwards just before he turned!)
Now that was a stroke of luck, that he heard me and understood and was willing to cooperate. Not only that but he looked right in my eye (lens) as if to strike a pose for me. And then he was gone! This way I get to tell a little tale of a robin in the garden and help you see them with the help of a camera and the internet. You might start noticing them in your neighbourhood too, if you haven't before, all these midwest US storms can really move them around.
They eat worms, grubs and other bugs and are a boon to a garden. If they're around, try to provide some fresh water to them daily. Don't leave the water out overnight - water a plant with it and re-fill in the morning. Use rain-water when you can to fill your birdbath!

Hope you enjoyed this little walk in the garden.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Happy Earth Day

http://static.flickr.com/38/97992817_d68755a11a_o.jpg Visit A Forum For Nature; read about our Earth Day there or tell us about your Earth Day! Visit Our Enchanted Garden website, where Easter celebrations are still underway as some people celebrate Easter this weekend. Visit the Garden blog too, for more photos and Earth Day topics! Pop Quizz on Tuesday!

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Bee with a Parasol


Bee with a Parasol, originally uploaded by Our Enchanted Garden.

Now that those tiny blue scillia plants are in full bloom the bees come by to visit frequently! I love the colour of these flowers, one of my favourite early spring blooms.
I was chasing this little worker bee up and down the flower bed and got several shots. This one is somewhat fun and whimsical in my eye. The bee approaching this flower must grab on and then flip his body upside down to be able to gather the small amount of nectar from the center of the bloom. Such acrobats these little characters.
I used a setting for action shots with the hope I'd capture the wings' movement and perhaps a bit of shine or good blur on the wings. Several shots pick it up - I was thrilled to see it.
It all started when my dog Keisha was pouncing on a large black and yellow bumble bee the day I got this shot of a worker honey bee. I had hoped to shoot the bumble bee but once free of Keisha's clutches, and while I was running to grab the camera, the big stunned bee had already recovered and flown away! Others are sure to be by as the spring progresses so better luck next time!
Hope you enjoyed this little view of our enchanted garden!
Our Enchanted Garden; the website
A Forum For Nature; the discussion Forum

Come by to visit, become a member of the Forum For Nature, help kick-start the fun; post your questions, share some stories, read some stories, find tips, links, invite your friends, neighbors, family. Spring has sprung - it's time for outdoor fun!

Monday, April 17, 2006

You've Been Missing All The Fun At Our Enchanted Garden!

Happy Easter from some bunny! That's right - you missed it! Well only if you don't have any of the other important links to keep you connected to what's happening in Our Enchanted Garden. And there's been a lot happening! A new photo slide show was presented just in time for easter, a little bunny was busy around the garden and mother nature added her finishing touch to the mix! And then there's the work we've been doing to spruce up the website and get it in shape for a new phase in it's creation. With A Forum For Nature now nicely part of that site; providing an opportunity to make your visit to the website more inter-active, inspiring and useful. Our Enchanted Garden is not a site for the sale of things or services, though someday it may become that; should the need arise and if people request it. Rather, the website is a place to visit, to connect on the Forum, to learn about nature, to share what you know about the great outdoors or what you sense about our natural world. To view some photographs, share some photographs, find links to stories and other interesting diversions to inspire your day! It's what I am inspired to share, as best I can, with the whole wide world and through that, to see where inspiration leads me! Life is stirring in this garden bed- notes tell all! And that's where the other work came into play. Working with a simple photograph in Flickr (a photo storage service with some useful functionality!) I was able to demonstrate how photographs can be used to answer specific questions or point out specific features of a garden bed. By using Flickr's tools and a simple link. By clicking the link on this photograph you will be transferred to a Flickr photo page of this photograph and with your mouse hover over the photo to see various notes added to the photograph. This feature will be helpful to us in many ways! Used as an example of the potential available to us, to anyone who would choose to participate in the Forum. Do stop by to see what we've been up to! Let us know you saw this invitation here at Blogger!

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It's our belief the Earth on which we live is truly an Enchanted Garden. Nature has a magical way of creating and sustaining itself, usually with an incredible abundance and variety of expression. This is actually the natural way of the world we live in, despite human attempts to rally against or fight or ignore nature.

A Photo-Blog with a fun and quirky flavor, including some digital artwork, inspirations, experiments and the stories behind them giving some insight into how a couple of happy gardeners view our backyard and our world!
Visiting is just like taking a Walk In The Garden

We planned our landscaping to reflect our appreciation for the natural world and the desire to observe nature up close by making use of native plant varieties, allowing seed bearing plants to stand as feed for wildlife and creating a healthy micro-environment for them. Sometimes even the garden visitors: mainly birds and squirrels leave seeds and bulbs that surprise us later on!

I enjoy sharing some of the magical photographs and images I'm grateful to be able to capture and create. Other fun photos and stories highlighting the rest of our life in the garden will inevitably show up here too. Road trips, camping, fishing, biking, our dogs and our rescue foster pups and their antics, are the likely topics!



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  • In addition to other activities Our Enchanted Garden helps in the rescue and fostering of jack russell terriers. Our own two dogs, one a rescue herself, enjoy being foster sisters. Have you ever considered fostering an abandoned animal? Ask your local shelter how you can help! Or search online for more info and do the Natural Thing! Open your hearts, your homes and your yards to an unfortunate animal in need of love and with tons of love to give back!

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Guelph, ON, Canada
I celebrate nature, the natural world and the human spirit immersed within it. My passion is in sharing the simple reminders the garden and nature share with me. Through my photographic adventures I've learned something we humans often overlook; We are a part of Nature, not apart from it! That we are human spirits immersed within this magical, miraculous and beautiful world. Understanding this fundamental truth has been changing my life in lovely ways. I look forward to and welcome further developments this focus provides and hope you might be inspired to reconnect with the natural world around you!
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