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The bean

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This is a photo of Cloud Gate. It’s a sculpture in Downtown Chicago. Locals call it “The Bean”. It’s amazing! When we were in Chicago I spent more time walking around the bean, and under it, than I did any other sight that I went to in all of Chicago.

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Isn’t that amazing?

Here’s a close up view. The large structure that you can see reflected in the background is Millennium Park. I posted a photo of the outdoor theater on my gardening website. You should visit to take a better look at it because it’s an amazing design too.

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Cool.

I just loved Chicago. I was only there for three days, but I found that it was very much like Toronto. I felt very much at home there.

Maybe Chris and I will end up going to Chicago again this summer.

BTW when these photo was posted on another site someone wondered if it was photoshopped. Nope. This is the way The Bean looks. It’s just that cool. If you ever go to Chicago you must see Cloud Gate.





A lovely combination

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Hybrid Clematis Seiboldiana

I just love this clematis vine. I have it growing at the entrance to my backyard on an arched bamboo trellis. It grows and entwines itself with a Breath of Life climbing rose. It’s a gorgeous mix because the breath of life rose is a pale peach, and the large clematis are a blue tinged purple.

Here’s a photo of the Breath of Life rose:

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Do you see what I mean about how beautifully the colors of the two flowers go together. It’s outstanding when they are both in bloom at the same time.

Actually, I believe that by sometime later today both will be blooming at once. If I’m able to I’ll try to get a photo of both together.

The center of the storm

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Uhmmm … remember that storm I was talking about? You know the one that hit Toronto at about 4 pm yesterday? Caused a massive temperature drop … although who could tell with the humidity!

Well … as gusts of rain were whipping past my dining room window like heavy snowfall bringing with it the lids from my garbage cans that had been secured and moving my barbecue down the lane way trees were crashing down on houses only two blocks away!

My area of the city was the worst hit by the storm.

You’ve got to read this CTV news story, and take a look at the photos to see what kind of damage the massive storm caused. There’s a video on the same page that you can watch, but I can’t get it to play on my computer. You might have better luck.

I knew it was a bad storm. I just didn’t realize how bad it truly was nor that I was in the middle of it.

Geez Toronto is like 60 miles across and I had to have all that action in my neighborhood? I’m just thankful it missed us. Our neighbor has a huge maple tree. If it had come down it would have crushed our roof too!

I’ll be taking a look at that tree in the morning to make sure it looks healthy!

I hate storms. Stuff like this just seems to re-enforce my dislike of storms.

Well, at least my gardens got a good watering!

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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What a storm!

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There’s a furious thunder and lightening storm going on right now.

It started about half an hour ago when I was trying to complete a post on another one of my sites. I kept saving the post in case the power went out – again! The power always seems to go out here when there’s a bad storm.

The wind picked up so fierily when the storm first started that it blew the lids off of two of our garbage containers in the driveway and other items flew to the end of the drive as well.

I actually thought that it might turn into a hail storm.

I took some photos of the rain coming down, but I think I’ll post them later when I’m sure the power won’t fail as I’m transferring. I don’t want to mess up my memory stick!

It was something like 31 Celsius when the storm hit, and with humidity it was about 37 Celsius … in case you don’t know your metric temps that’s very very hot! It’s now cooled down to 20 Celsius! (about 70 F). That’s quite a drop in a short period of time isn’t it?

It’s actually going to be on the cool side tonight and tomorrow will be a reasonable summer day temperature wise.

The rain has slowed now, but I can still see lightening and there’s the occasional crash of thunder in the distance. It could come back.

I hate storms in case you can’t tell. Especially when they happen as I’m trying to get some work done.

Go away storm!

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