Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
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This weeks theme is Smelly
I think it’s finally starting to cool down a bit here. I’m not a big fan of winter so I almost wish that we could just skip winter and move on to spring. At least then I’d be able to admire my lovely Karl Rosenfield peonies again.
These peonies have a delicate sweet scent. So yes, this flower counts for todays smelly Photo Hunter theme.
Wordless Wednesday
Malva Sylvestra Zebrina – that’s the formal name of this flower. what a mouthful for such a pretty striped mallow flower.
I love this dependable little plant. I grow Malva in front of my William Baffin rose bush er tree. The flowers bloom in front of the roses bare lower branches hiding it’s ugly “knees”. It makes a great combination along with some lavender and some phlox.
In my Green Thumb posts on As the Garden Grows and You are in My World Now I was talking about how we’ve had some strange weather here in Toronto.
Flowers are still blooming away as if it were August or September rather than October, as you can see from the photo that I’ve included of the Phlox that is growing in my garden and that it’s currently on it’s third set of blooms!
My raspberries are still producing fruit, and as I said on my gardening blog, some of my flowering vines have begun to produce berries of their own too. Berries that I’ve never noticed before.
It’s been a warm sticky weekend here in Toronto as well. We had air conditioning of all things on yesterday since it was so muggy! Crazy weather.
I hope that the weather in your area has been a little more pleasant than it has been here.
Any Canadians reading this? Happy Thanks Giving! Yes, here in Canada we celebrate Thanks Giving a little earlier than our American friends. Probably because the weather is usually a lot cooler in many parts of our country by this time of year. Not this year though … LOL
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.
Wordless Wednesday
I feel bleak, cold, gray ….
Sorry. I haven’t posted for a few days because I’ve been very sick.
I’ve had fevers high enough to melt the little pads off my mouse (that make it glide easily) when I lie on my side on the couch looking at my laptop computer. Now that’s hot.
Just as I was about to start posting on Tuesday afternoon I looked at the stats for several of my sites and discovered that some very hypocritical elite bloggers had made a post about my gardening blog. My first post after my illness imposed blogging break was a rebuttal on my gardening blog against hypocritical bloggers.
So yes this old picture of trees in early spring that I took at Toronto’s beaches a few years ago reflects how I’m feeling right now.
Sad. Angry. frustrated. Bleak …
This is a photo of a fading Morning Glory. I took this photo last Sunday in the late afternoon.
Morning glory vines are very vigorous. I’ve spent many years pulling tiny plants out of my back flower bed but each year some come up. This one escaped me until it grew enough to bloom.
The morning glory’s vine flowers bloom in the early morning – often at first light and by the time that the sun is full, perhaps 10 am or so, the flowers begin to die down and close. Each flower only lasts one day.
As I said I captured this one in the late afternoon as it was dying. It was still a beauty.
If you want to see a gorgeous rose pop on over to my photoblog Breath of Life.
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.