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Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Apples Begin Showing Off Their Adventures!

Sweet Signs Are showing in the garden! Sweet and tiny still, these buds are set to explode into a bright and fragrant show of beauty unfolding. The magic and miracles of life and rejuvenation on display for all to enjoy and appreciate with gratitude. Life on this fair earth is ever changing and striving to reach its full potential!
*testing, this was an old draft I forgot to post - want to see where it turns up on the blog page...
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Saturday, April 04, 2009

In The Garden These Days

On Thursday afternoon 4-2-09 we had a nice preview of the warmer weather to come; this shot documents it, just for fun showing the temperature at 10 C, at 1:50 in the afternoon. This was in light shade! (Ah, promising! More please!!!) In my last post I had mentioned the birds had begun their nest-building in the garden. We have a few home-made houses on the front of our little barn, you can see the grass streamers in one shot, the other has a male sparrow perched on the uppermost birdhouse. It's still too early to do much in the garden, other than cleaning things up. With rains keeping things wet I find it best to avoid trying to work the soil. It's difficult for me to be patient at this point in the garden's season. I surveyed the yard to see what will need attention soon and noticed our little statue had lost her head. When I tried to replace it she looked a bit odd! Frankenstatue?

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Life In The Garden Returns - No April Fool Here!

A favorite early spring flower of mine, Blue Scillia opens just a week or two after my neighbors' little white Snow Drops. They send the clear signal that the ground is warming and our bulbs and perennials will soon start popping out of the ground. A bonus that it marks the beginning of April - we'll likely have blooms in the garden in time for the upcoming long weekend. Like Crocus, these tiny flowers multiply through garden beds and lawns and finish flowering well before the grass will need cutting and can be mowed without consequence of damage to the plants. Something else that's showing life in the garden are the young fruit trees we planted in late April last year. They were already flowering when they went in the ground so we are experiencing the early spring transformation of these trees for the first time. we have two Cherry trees; one is a sweet red cherry and the other, a sweet black cherry. They are accompanied by a lovely little peach tree that I just adore blooms on! Can't wait till I get shots with the Canon I bought last summer, the macros are much better than my previous camera even though they were good too! Macro photography and gardens go so well together - the close up images really help show off delecate blooms and details you might otherwise overlook. Insects are also interesting subjects, as are toads and mice if you can get them to sit still long enough! The peach buds surprised me by being fuzzy just like the fruit that will grow from them. A borring bit of trivia perhaps, it is true too, the cherry tree buds look different. Their outer casing is smooth and, oddly enough, reddish brown! I even double checked to be sure. Ah, spring! The birds and bugs are getting active. Nests are being built in the birdhouses, evidenced by fluttering streamers of dried grasses and old morning glory vines dangling from the little round doorways! Most of Sunday morning in the garden we were serenaded by a good mix of bird songs; crows, blue jays, morning doves, house finches, purple finches, chickadees, sparrows, goldfinches, nuthatches. red winged black birds, robins, cardinals and cedar wax wings. Looking forward to documenting and sharing a whole new season in Our Enchanted Garden!
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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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