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If this heat keeps up I’ll be at the beach!

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We’re having a heat wave here in Toronto. Yesterday it got up to about 41 Celsius with the humidity … that’s about 105 F. Today is supposed to be just as hot, but we might get a thunder storm too.

When it’s this hot in Toronto, when we get thunder storms they are always severe! The last big one we had a week and a half ago knocked down trees all over my neighborhood. Actually my neighborhood was the worst hit in the city! You can read what I had to say about that if you’d like.

Anyway, I was thinking, if this heat keeps up I might just head to the beach. It’s usually several degrees cooler down by the water, and of course if I took a dip I’d cool off.

I posted this photo because I imagine that the beach will look like this later today as the storm starts coming in! I actually took this photo sometime last summer.

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If I don’t end up going to the beach today, perhaps I will later in the week when the temperature is supposed to be a little more comfortable. If I do I can always join in a volleyball game at one of the many volleyball nets that the city has set up for us to use.

How are you surviving the heat?

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Our camouflage vine

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This is my Dropmore Scarlet Honey Suckle vine. It’s huge and hardy.

We have an eye sore of a guide wire in the back of our yard. I guess it’s an anchor wire for the electric pole in our other neighbors yard. To hide this terrible wire we’ve tried growing a variety of vines on the wire. So far it seems that the Dropmore Scarlet Honey Suckle has been the most successful.

It’s very hardy so it came right back after our winter. That’s so nice since the vine is very exposed throughout or cold winter.

Do you use vines or plants in your yard to hide eye sores?

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Did I miss my ride?

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It was so hot here yesterday that I only wish a car filled with people armed with water guns would have driven by while I was outside!

Wow take a look at the drivers seat! Was this a prank or were they trying to get somewhere? I really don’t know.

Looking at this, well the water gun made me thing of running through sprinklers when I was a kid. That was always fun.

We do have a water gun but I use it to spray the pigeons and squirrels that keep coming into my garden. It’s fun and it works! for a little while anyway.

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The Maroon Trillium

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Last Sunday I posted a photo of this flower when it was just a lonely bud. I believe most of the members of my Green Thumb Sunday group that saw the photo urged me to post a photo of this Trillium grandiflora in bloom.

I’m fairly certain the first year this hybrid trillium bloomed it was white – as it should be. However, this year and perhaps last year, it became a maroon colored trillium flower. The hybrid might be reverting back to one of it’s parents. I’m not sure. Either way, it’s an unusual colored flower, and an even more unusual color for a trillium.

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A pretty annual flower

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My neighbor asked me to photograph some of her flowers the other day and this was one of the ones that I choose to take a photo of.

This is a lovely orangey red annual Salvia. They come in many colors and are quite pretty when they are in full bloom like this one is.

I’ve got to plant some of my pots and baskets with annual flowers. I haven’t done that yet!

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