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Fondly remembering my Florida spring vacation

April 14, 2008 by Tricia

Spring is a wonderful time to take a vacation isn’t it? I’ve been enjoying spring here in my own city, but I can’t help remembering some of the great spring vacations I’ve taken in the past. Actually now that I think of it, I think I’ve been to Florida in the spring more often than any other place in the world that I’ve vacationed.

The last time I went to Florida for spring vacation was several years ago. It was beautiful. The temperatures were in the 70’s to low 80’s so it was extremely comfortable.

I stayed with some friends in the Tampa and Orlando area. We visited both Tampa, Orlando and several other cities across the State. You see one of my nurse friends had traveled with me to Florida but she was staying in Boca Raton so we went there to spend a day with her and even drove down to Miami and visited the Miami Seaquarium. I guess we spent a lot of time traveling by car, but it was well worth it.

If you’re planning a spring vacation you should visit Trusted Tours & Attractions. They offer discounted tickets to the very best sightseeing tours. You’ll find discounted sight seeing tour tickets as well as some great information for 23 cities across America.

I actually wish I’d known about this companies website when I was looking for things to do in Orlando and other Florida cities. I could have even picked up some discount tickets for not only sight seeing tours but local attractions and I believe hotel rates as well.

If you expect to be going on vacation this spring or perhaps later in the year you might want to sign up for their newsletter. When you sign up for their newsletter before the end of April you’ll be entered in a contest where you could win a hand held system. Isn’t that great?

The newsletter is full of travel tips, interesting stories and links to travel blogs. I’m sure you’ll find it interesting and informative.

Visit the website, I’m sure you’ll find some great travel ideas!

Spring plants are growing fast

April 13, 2008 by Tricia

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Now that spring is here and I can actually see my garden it’s interesting to look out at it and see what new things have popped up from the ground or how much each new plant has grown. Some seem to grow several inches in a day or so!

I think these are tulips.

The tips of this plant were bright flaming red when we first uncovered them from the leaves that they were buried under.

I think all of the crocus’ in the backyard are blooming now. I planted them in the lawn and near the edges of the garden beds rather than directly in the beds. It looks more natural that way and it’s amazing how pretty they look popping out of the grass as they do:

The way things are speeding along this spring I won’t have long to enjoy the crocus.

Is anything blooming in your garden yet?

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Overlapping petals

April 12, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Twisted

I was busy looking for some interesting picture that I might have taken in the past to use for the Twisted theme when I realized that many of my garden plants have stages where they appear twisted.

Take this Johnson’s Blue Geranium for example. The petals are slightly twisted when the bloom first appears. The petals overlap slightly in a clockwise fan shape.

This is actually a very pretty tiny flower. The photo above is a macro so the flower appears much larger than it is in real life. I guess the flowers are only an inch or less in diameter, but the plant is just covered in flowers and buds when it blooms.

Garbage pickers – identity thieves?

April 8, 2008 by Tricia

Something odd happened last night. I took our puppy Midnight out front at about 12:30 a.m. so she could do her final business of the night and we were both startled to see two people picking through our neighbors garbage.

There were two guys riding around on bikes that had what appeared to be home-made trailers attached to them. They were stopping at every house to go through the garbage.

Now I don’t mind if someone takes something that I’ve set out that we no longer plan to use. Maybe a broken chair that someone thinks they can repair, an old TV or something like that, certainly not my Rimowa. In fact when I’ve put items like that out I’m usually glad someone came by and took it because I’m pretty sure the garbage men wouldn’t take some of the things we’ve put out.

These guys weren’t just looking for furniture, appliances or other loose items by the garbage though. They were actually opening up garbage cans or garbage bags and going through them.

When I first saw the two curbside pickers I was about to go outside with Midnight but I pulled her back and waited hoping they’d go away. Midnight must have realized I didn’t trust the two young men and she watched them from the screen door and let out low rumbling growls.

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A lovely spring weekend in the city

April 6, 2008 by Tricia

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Such a dreamy picture of some of the white tulips that I grow in my garden …. It’s the perfect time for a gardener to be dreaming of tulips and other spring flowers too. The weather is finally beginning to warm up and all the plants in my garden are beginning to come out of their dormant state.

I was just saying on my gardening blog that it’s such a beautiful day here in Toronto that I expect to go outside this afternoon and tidy up my garden. Hopefully I don’t become obsessed and stay out there for hours!

We’d also like to take our dog out for a good walk today.

Last weekend we went to Cherry Beach twice (although Sunday was super cold and windy, especially at the beach, so we ended up going to The Brickworks for our walk). It was beautiful! Yesterday we ended up going to The Beach and walking on the boardwalk. So today … if I can pry myself away from the computer and then from the garden, we’d like to go to Cherry beach again.

I just love living in Toronto. The weathers fairly nice most of the year (not this past winter!) and there are so many things to do. I love it. Plus now that we have a dog we have more incentive to get out and enjoy what this great city has to offer.

What have you been doing on this beautiful spring weekend? Working in the garden or doing something outside as you enjoy the great weather?

Spring plants are growing fast

Overlapping petals

Garbage pickers – identity thieves?

A lovely spring weekend in the city

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