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?

Happy Mothers Day!

Celebrating the lives of mothers everywhere!

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!

clipped from www.dreammanifesto.com “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!