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Sunday, May 20, 2007

It's Time To Plant The Annuals

Cool Hardy Plants brighten an old barrel with cherry yellows, purples and blues!

Now that the Victoria Day weekend has arrived (Canada's first long weekend of the summer season) it's safe to begin planting seeds and annuals in the garden. It's unlikely, but still possible, that we'll get frost in the early mornings now.

With the official arrival of this first long weekend the summer rituals begin! It's time for backyard barbecues, camping, biking, fishing and hiking and of course gardening!

Here we've planted an old half barrel with pansies and placed a cheery yellow mum in the center. The setting sun adds an interesting light element to the photograph.
We'll add a few other flowers as the weather gets warmer and the pansies start to go dormant with the heat, knowing they'll rejuvenate when cooler fall temperatures arrive.

Our strawberry plants have bloomed profusely this week and provided the bees do their busy work we'll get a good load of fruit this year to enjoy.

We'll be heading out to the garden nurseries tommorow to look for some pretty specimens to add to the perennial beds and dress them up a bit. Perennials are a favourite of mine but they do have limitations because they bloom for a short period of time. Mixing a good selection of perennial plants that flower at various times of the year is the best way to ensure a constant display of colour. Adding anual plants to the mix gives some constancy as most will flower continuously from now till the first frosts in September or October. (Or even later in the fall given the way the seasons have been over the past few years!)

I'll be back with a few more shots a bit later, want to catch some shots with the light of the setting sun. When the sun is rising or setting the light it displays is very special and adds an incredible depth and tone to most photographs. I'll get out with the hope of catching some surprises - but first there's a hockey game to watch... I want to see who from the Western Division is going to end up matched up with the Ottawa Senators, the Eastern Division champions, in the Stanley Cup Finals! Spoken like a Canadian, eh?
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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Happy Mothers Day!



Celebrating the lives of mothers everywhere!
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Magic and Miracles happen in the spaces between beginnings and endings

This is a "clip" from an article I located on the web that is truly worth sharing. It highlights what I believe to be true about the world around us. Hopefully we humans are evolving to a point where we can learn to use our desires and our imaginations to create positive changes in our world! Check out the entire article by clicking the link to dream manifesto - explore the site and consider the possibilities - this may be the most important thing you read today!

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because we are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.” – Max Planck, “father” of quantum theory

There’s a power that lives in the space “between,” that subtle instant when something ends, and what follows next hasn’t yet begun.

The mystery and possibilities of the space that connects two events has long been honored in the wisdom of traditions of our past. Native traditions of North America, for example, state that two times each day the earth enters into precisely such mystical realms.
Both are twilight moments
It is during this time, the traditions suggest, that an opening occurs in which profound truths may be realized, deep healings may occur, and prayers have their greatest power.
Regardless of scale, between the “beginning” and the “end”, there is a moment in time when neither one has fully happened. That moment is where magic and miracles come from!
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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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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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