Yellow Week: Monday

Shelley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:28:11 +0100

In an effort to help combat the February greys I'm participating in Yellow Week, hosted by Erin of House on Hill Road (I highly recommend taking a look to see what other people are doing). These are some tulips we picked out at the grocery store on Saturday. I love the way they've opened up. We've got them sitting in the middle of the kitchen table where they are easy to see as we ...

Look what's growing in our kitchen...

Shelley — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:19:32 +0100

No, it's not mould.

A while ago I put some cuttings from my African Violets in little pots of soil to see what would happen. I've been keeping an eye on them and giving them water whenever the pots felt dry. They seemed a little secure for leaves stuck in dirt and I was hopeful that something was happening but I didn't have any proof until last week.

One...

Frost

Shelley — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:29:28 +0100

Yesterday was a beautiful fall day (today was not - we got both rain and snow). Rob said there was lots of frost on the car when we were getting ready for work so I grabbed my camera on my way out the door; I love the look of frost in the sunshine. These pictures are from spots along my walk to work.

Random Image #7

Shelley — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:41:56 +0100

The spider plant my sister gave me has been showing buds for a little while and today I noticed that it is finally blooming. They are such delicate looking little flowers.

Branching Out

Shelley — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:15:46 +0100

I got right into playing with plants yesterday. My parents had been over and we'd showed them around our yard and talked about some of our ideas for it. After they left I'd watered and deadheaded my outside pots and remembered that a couple of my indoor plants needed deadheading too (they also needed a lot of water). I decided to tidy up the violets a bit after getting rid of the old f...

Random Image #5

Shelley — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:01:06 +0100

Rob with one of last year's pine cones.
There were still some seeds inside.

Random Image #3

Shelley — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:37:48 +0100

Spring in our living room.

Its a Mystery...

Shelley — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:29:04 +0100

Can anyone tell me what these plants are?

I’m making up a photo book from one of the albums I took down from my Photos page a little while ago. It’s almost ready but I’d like to have the names of these two plants to go with their pictures.

The pictures were taken near Great Slave Lake in September of last year.

Let’s call them Pla...

Visiting Nova Scotia

Shelley — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:22:49 +0100

We spent most of October in Nova Scotia this year. Neither of us had ever been there and it was a wonderful experience.

We spent a week on Cape Breton being immersed in Celtic and Acadian music. The range of accents was amazing - everything from French to the thickest Scottish with some Gaelic thrown in for good measure. We stayed in Baddeck - a beautiful little to...

It's Winter

Shelley — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:20:58 +0100

We have passed from Fall into Winter.

Thursday was a lovely Autumn day. I spent my lunch hour walking around enjoying the crisp air and sunshine. The trees were glowing with yellowed leaves and the lake was a ripply mirror reflecting their splendour.

When we woke up on Friday it was windy and the forecast was calling for snow. I spent my day watching the w...

Picnic

Shelley — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:13:09 +0100

Rob and I went out to one of the smaller lakes for a picnic yesterday. The weather was lovely - sunny and warm with a bit of a breeze. We drove out about four o’clock and walked around and enjoyed the sun until it was time to start our fire for dinner. Hot dogs always taste best when you’ve cooked them yourself over a fire. We had all the regular condiments and Rob convi...

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