My Way of Living [05/06/16] 

  • Turn left at the pink magnolia — Wordy Wednesday's

    I have a really good sense of direction, but for some reason I have problems remembering street names, and numbers. So if you were to tell me, turn left at the white magnolia, or the house with the magenta lilac hedge I would know which street you meant. Do all gardeners do that? Do you geo tag in your memory where all the special…

  • Late bloomer doubles the beauty

    Everyone likes the early bloomers, especially after a long winter. But there is much to be said for the later blooming doubles. Whether it is tulips, or this beautiful cherry tree.We would walk past it every spring and I was always amazed by it’s beauty, and the soft pink color, so spring like.To me, it’s beauty is so worth the wa…

  • The choir of cacophony

    It started at the crack of dawn, usually known as “cover your head with a pillow, can you believe it’s 4 am.” It was beautiful, as if every bird in the vicinity was warming up together, a world class choir about to start. Melodious, fluid, ethereal… fully in tune, trilling scales of bird tweets, flowing notes of feathered performe…

  • Good night moon

    “Hurry up, times a wasting, and the super moon is out there” I am prodding my husband out of his favourite chair and into the darkening evening. The too heavy tripod, and the long lens of my camera clank together as I slip through the front door, that’s not good for them, but it’s late, and I am too thrilled to be out, to worry ab…