This pink single peony steals the show, for a few days…
Category: Photo Challenge
Icicles by Lake Ontario
Icicles on the shores of Lake Ontario in Prince Edward County.
2019 – 12 Fave Garden Photos – Flowers and otherwise.
Here are a baker’s dozen of my favourite garden shots of 2019.
Condo towers sprout in pairs in the urban jungle
A road trip to Toronto leads to some a discovery of Seeing Double condo buildings.
Such a pretty, good dog
The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge this week is called ‘Candid’ – Leya starts her post describing the challenge with a quote from the late fashion design superstar Karl Lagerfeld: What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. Our pup Shileau is 12 now. Although still a puppy […]
Filling the Frame – Last Gasp
This is my first go at joining the Lens-Artist Photo Challenge – a weekly theme that seemed to spring up quite organically when the WordPress weekly photo challenge ended more than a year ago. Many thanks to the four fabulous photographers who took on this task; I’ve seen many really great shots from around the […]
All Time Favourites…
For nearly eight years WordPress – the site that hosts this and millions of other blog posts from around the world – has issued a weekly themed photo challenge. As of this week the challenges are ending, and bloggers are posting some of their own favourites as a salute to what was a popular theme. […]
What I Learned Today – Beetle Bath
I’ve been finding these beetles making waves in my bird bath this past week. Sometimes doing the back stroke, sometimes the dog paddle, occasionally a pair of them would be doing some sort of synchronized dance, preparing for the beetle Olympics, no doubt. At first I was alarmed, thinking some horrible invasive species had arrived […]
Why disparage the ditch daylily?
New daylily shoots are a few inches tall now – the perfect size, I think, to divide large clumps and spread the joy around the garden or with friends, if you’re able to tread lightly in the garden. That last point is crucial – if your soil is still mushy from spring snow melt or […]
