Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
Wordless Wednesday
We have some garden decorations in our garden and one of the latest items to adorn one of the surrounding walls is a large metal sun. It looks really cool with the vines growing around it.
Yesterday while I was out take just a few pictures I took this close up photo of the face of the sun. I think it looks kind of cool.
This is an old day lily called Bonanza. I’m not certain how old this hybrid is, but I believe it was created 40 or more years ago.
It’s a fantastic performer in the garden. I think mine is on it’s third flush of blooms this summer. It might even have bloomed more times than that but it’s at least three times.
I like day lilies for their dependable blooms. Particularly those that re-bloom. Do you grow day lilies?
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This weeks theme is Happy
A couple of weeks ago my husbands brother and his kids came to visit from Chicago. We had a very busy few days while they stayed in our home!
While they were here we had some old friends over and sat in the garden talking and having fun one evening. Another day we went to the big Toronto festival “Taste of the Danforth” and then there were shopping trips with the teenage kids, a little sight seeing, dinners out and a nice trip to the beach.
I think the day that we went to the beach and just relaxed with our friends was the nicest day. Certainly that was the day that I was happiest.
Naturally I brought my camera to the beach that day and the photo I’ve included in this post was taken that day at in “the beaches” area of Toronto.
What do you think has been munching on my black eyed susans? Do you see the big chunks missing out of some of the petals?
I took a number of photos of my daisies, but I decided to put this one up today, even thought it’s not as lovely the one I’ve got up on my photoblog at the moment simply to show you the damage.
I’m not too worried about a few chunks out of some petals. It’s not like my whole garden or even all the daisies have been attacked. I’m just curious as to what might have done this. I suspect it might have been a caterpillar of some sort.
I’ll have to try to catch the culprit in the act.
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This weeks theme is Two
I took this photo last year when I noticed that there were lots of bumble bees visiting some sedum flowers that had just started to bloom.
I swear the plant must have had twenty bumble bees visiting at once. It was like a bumble bee flea market or something.
I’m actually allergic to bees, but I’m not really afraid of bumble bees.
They are very gentle creatures and are very unlikely to bother you unless you lean on one or sit one one. Wasps and hornets on the other hand … don’t make them mad!