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Moody

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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 …





Glorious Morning Glory

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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.

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Prince in disguise?

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I wonder if someone were to kiss this crowned frog if it would turn into Prince Charming?

This is another piece of metal artwork that my husband and I saw when we went to the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in downtown Toronto during the summer.

The show was fantastic, but I enjoyed the metal art work the most.

I’d love to have this metal sculpture either in my garden or on our front porch to greet visitors.

Getting together with friends from St. Lucia

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Sometime later this evening, after my husband gets home from work, we’re having some friends over. Chris invited them over so that they can jam. I think they’re going to be playing music with a bit of island flare to it. Did I not mention our friends are from the beautiful island of St. Lucia?

I always enjoy when they come over because I get to learn more about other countries and cultures. You see our friends enjoy talking about St. Lucia. I don’t blame them one bit either as it sounds like a lovely island full of friendly people and beautiful scenery.

Did you know that the people of St. Lucia enjoy Creole food? Since the island was first colonized by the French this has greatly influenced their culinary style. Perhaps I should make a Jambalaya for dinner? Or maybe some fresh fish. Whatever I make I’m sure it won’t match the style of food from St. Lucia, but I could try.

One day Chris and I will visit St. Lucia and try the various popular foods ourselves. I’m not too sure if I’ll like saltfish though. I hear it’s an acquired taste!

Our friends often tell us how beautiful the beaches of St. Lucia are, so I’m sure if we went to the island we’d be spending some time on the beach as well. Perhaps traveling around to see different ones on each side of the island.

Anyway, we should have an interesting evening tonight. Our friends are always fun to get together with, and as I said, I enjoy learning more about their original homeland of St. Lucia when they visit.

WebCollage – cool site

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Hey, I was just looking at my site stats and I saw that a strange bot had been spidering my sites. It’s called WebCollage and it’s located at jwz.org/webcollage/ . There was a link to it so I clicked, fully expecting to be taken to a 404 page, but much to my surprise it’s a real website.

I guess the site has spiders that regularly monitor the internet for images and it creates collages with all the images that it finds. Visit the page to see what the collage looks like right now. Wait a few minutes and it will refresh on it’s own and you’ll see yet another interesting collage.

Cool site.

Note- I’ve been told that some of the photos in the collages might be distasteful or even offensive so be aware! I didn’t see any of that when I visited in the night, but it pulls images from all over and obviously doesn’t screen them first. I was linking to the site, but if it links to sites in “bad neighborhoods” I don’t want my site associated.

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