January snow blues

Posted by Tricia in Sunday, January 11th 2009   
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I look outside and everything is a blanket of white. While it’s nice to see a fresh blanket of snow on the ground (I mean rather than old slushy dirty snow), to be frank I’m getting darn tired of it.

I don’t hate winter. Heck, I live in Canada – born and raised in Ottawa (tied for coldest capital with Moscow) so there’s no way I’d survive here if I hated winter. However, here in Toronto the snow usually doesn’t stay.

It snows, lasts for a day or two and then melts away, or that’s the way it’s been for most of the time I’ve lived here … however the last two years have been snow, snow and more snow and to top it off it rained most of last summer. Hopefully you can’t blame me for being more than a little tired of dull grey skies and all the white stuff.

What I need is some color and I thought that some of my readers who are going through the same thing I am (snow, snow and more snow) might also appreciate a cheery flower.

So here’s a lovely daylily that I grow in my garden. it’s called Bonanza. I think the name suits this vibrant yellow flower – don’t you?

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Now how’s that for some color?

BTW if you want to see another summer flower I have a great picture of my Clematis growing over a birdhouse on my gardening blog.

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Judi (4 comments.) said in January 11th, 2009 at 10:35 am    

Lovely lily! I can relate to the grey skies and dreary weather. I don’t hate winter either, tho sometimes I express myself that way… I really just hate having to get out in it. I love to be able to snuggle in at home, let the weather do it’s thing, while we feed the fire, monch on soup and yum up on warm cookies and milk… play games and enjoy. I probably prefer the cold of winter over the heat of summer, just because winter, you can snuggle in and get warm.. in summer, you can only cool off so much.

Love the picture of the birdhouse and clematis – very pretty!

Richies (26 comments.) said in January 11th, 2009 at 10:41 am    

We haven’t had any snow yet this year, but yesterday was cold and blustery. Thanks for a bit of color, the photo is beautiful.

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kml (12 comments.) said in January 11th, 2009 at 11:06 am    

We both had the same idea for summer pics today – enough already with all this snow!

PGP (0 comments.) said in January 11th, 2009 at 12:39 pm    

When I first went off to college, I went to school up in the mountains. However, as you said, the snow got old real quick.

So I transferred to East Carolina University, which is only 1.5 hours from the beach!

What in the world was I initially thinking?

Jean-Luc Picard (386 comments.) said in January 11th, 2009 at 1:35 pm    

I’ve seen the garden covered in snow as well a lot. There seems to be more this winter.

Darryl (0 comments.) said in January 11th, 2009 at 8:18 pm    

Pretty apt name for that flower. :) It doesn’t snow over here, so outside, everything is green. Wind’s a mite bit chilly though.

Kelly (3 comments.) said in January 12th, 2009 at 6:02 am    

While we don’t have snow here, (right now), we have had soooo much rain. I am so tired of the dreary days. No sunshine for weeks. It’s getting depressing. That’s a beautiful flower! I love daylilies. :)

Taylor (0 comments.) said in January 12th, 2009 at 11:26 am    

Tricia, you are much braver than me! I moved down to Florida because I couldn’t stand the cold in Alabama! I don’t know how the people above Virgina can handle that type of cold!

Chris from Christian books (0 comments.) said in January 13th, 2009 at 6:19 am    

Its a lovely flower surely bringing life to a cold and grey weather..Hope to catch more of your pics again soon.

Frida (0 comments.) said in January 13th, 2009 at 6:37 am    

I love to look the flowers and enjoy nature and snow. Thanks for pointing to great name for the flower, that is an incredible post about gardening ! Very detailed !

Ivanhoe (6 comments.) said in January 13th, 2009 at 4:07 pm    

Toronto weather sounds just like Cleveland’s. And they say there’s global warming going on :o )

Dinissse (0 comments.) said in January 19th, 2009 at 11:38 pm    

Yes I think that name is perfectly fits the flower and it is most beautiful I think so. Thanks for sharing the info.

book of blues Finn (1 comments.) said in January 20th, 2009 at 12:38 am    

I swear I can go take a shower, finish, dry off, look outside and it’s already snowed another 4 inches. I picked the wrong year to have a Mustang GT. Snow can wear spirits down. I live in chicagoland. My spirits are weary.

Your flower picture is the most color i’ve seen all day.

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