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Simple flowers – Simply beautiful

August 5, 2007 by Tricia

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Blue Gentian

Blue Gentian Gentiana septemfida

I’ve been slow to get out and take photos of my blooming plants but the other day I went out for an hour and came back in with 279 photos! All but 4 were keepers.

The photo above is of blue Gentian. It’s a simple flower that blooms once or twice a year. It’s buds are interesting swirled cone shapes and then they open up into these delicate flowers.

The flowers above have a companion. Did you notice the ant?

Musk Mallow Malva moschata

Musk Mallow Malva moschata

The flower above is called Musk Mallow. It’s a North American native plant.

It’s very easy to grow, very hardy and as you can see it produces small delicate beautiful flowers. What more could you ask for in a plant?

Oh I know … did you know that you can eat the flowers and leaves of the musk mallow? The plant even has medicinal properties as well. I also believe that the root of the first flower, gentian is edible. See I grow a lot of plants that are not only beautiful, but edible as well.

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Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: beautiful, bloom, blooming, blooms, Blue, blue gentian, buds, edible, edible plants, flower, flowers, garden, Gardening, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, leaves, musk mallow, North America, photos, plant, plants

Strange blooms

August 4, 2007 by Tricia

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Honeysuckle Gold Flame

This is my new honeysuckle vine. It’s just about to bloom. I thought the flower buds looked pretty funky so I snapped a pic the other day. Don’t you think it’s a little strange looking?

Bee Balm Monardo aquarius

I also grow Bee Balm. I love the way this plant grows. It’s flowers grow on long stalks and new flowers grow on top of one another. Sometimes a stalk will have three or four flowers in a row.

This flower is fading, but to me it looks pretty funky while in it’s last stages.

The bees and butterflies think so too!

Filed Under: Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: bee balm, bloom, buds, fading flowers, flower, flowers, garden, Gold flame honeysuckle, honeysuckle buds, photo hunter, photohunt, photos, plant, plants, strange

A hot sticky car

August 2, 2007 by Tricia

Speaking of heat waves and humidity! If this heat wave keeps up were going to have to look into getting Auto air conditioning. The air conditioning in our car died about three years ago. When it’s not too hot it’s not really a problem. We don’t mind driving with the windows down.

It’s just when it’s this hot that the idea of getting into the car and driving around is almost unbearable.

We’re supposed to go out of town to Chris’ parents this weekend. If it’s still this hot it’s not going to be a pleasant drive.

We should get the air conditioning repaired, but we have to replace the whole system since there’s some kind of leak that couldn’t be fixed last time. It’s pretty expensive to get a whole new air conditioning system for a car and that’s not something we can afford right now either.

Nope, we’ll have to suffer.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: air conditioning, auto air conditioning, car, Chris, driving, heat, heat wave, hot, humid, humidity, suffer, system, Windows

Aches and pains

August 2, 2007 by Tricia

I mentioned yesterday that we’re having a heat wave here. I’m still up at 4 a.m and the temp outside is 30 Celsius with the humidity! You’d think it would have cooled a bit more by this time but it hasn’t. Soon it will begin to warm up even more!

I think the humidity is taking it’s toll on me.

We have air-conditioning and it’s doing it’s job, but my knees and feet have started to ache. It’s normal enough for my knees to ache but my feet don’t usually hurt.

I’m not that surprised that they are hurting though, I’ve certainly injured them enough in the past! I think I’ve broken bones in both feet and I’ve done some major tendon damage to one of them too.

Do certain weather conditions make your old injuries ache?

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: aching joints, cool, damage, heat, heat wave, humid, humidity, hurting, injured, sore feet, sore knee, weather

My list of vacation spots is growing

August 2, 2007 by Tricia

Do you have a wish list of places that you like to visit sometime? It seems that my list grows longer and longer instead of getting shorter as I check off countries and sites from my list! Some day, some day.

One of the countries that Chris and I would like to visit is England and other areas of the UK like Cardiff, Wales.

My husband and I both have roots in the UK. His are mostly Irish, while mine is a mix of English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish (with surprisingly a little native Indian thrown in for good measure). So you can probably see why we are interested in visiting the UK.

We’d definitely want to stay in London for a while. I want to be able to afford to visit all the places that we’re interested in so we’ll be looking for fairly Cheap Hotels in London. There are so many things we’d love to see there such as Buckingham palace, Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, the London Aquarium and many other well known sites.

Then as I said earlier I’d want to visit Cardiff, to trace some of my ancestry. I’ll have to look into Cardiff Hotels or perhaps a nice little bed and breakfast. I actually think I’m more interested in going to Cardiff than London!

If we can have a long enough vacation I’d love to go to several places in the Uk such as Ireland, but if we don’t have a very long vacation we’ll stay mostly in the London area. Hopefully we’ll be able to visit Manchester and naturally find a great Manchester hotel to stay in. If we go to Manchester we’ll probably visit it’s many museums and perhaps take in a football game.

What countries, cities or sites are on your wish list to visit?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: accomodations, Cardiff, cheap hotels, Chris, game, holiday wish list, hotel, hotels, husband, Ireland, Irish, London, Manchester, Uk, vacation, Wales

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