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ACROSS CANADA DAY: 3 July 12~ Niagara On The Lake

About 30 km from Niagara Falls is a beautiful town, Niagara On The Lake. Tourists often describe it as “the prettiest town in Ontario” It’s where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario and it is Ontario’s wine region with vineyard after vineyard. There are also markets and fresh fruits. There’s a lot of History and Historical places to see at Niagara on The Lake, however, knowing my husband’s “love” for history…we don’t tend to focus on that aspect, but there’s lots to see and learn.

Niagara on the Lake is my favourite place in this area. We always visit when we are at Martin & Rebecca’s. It’s a place that I can keep going back to, just to wander the streets and shops, peek in the art galleries, have a coffee, maybe a bite to eat and a glass of wine, watch the sights, watch people. It’s my idea of a relaxing few hours of my vacation. What a wonderful ( very HOT 35 degrees) day!

Here are some pictures of our lovely day…

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Please don’t eat the berries

I had a visitor in my garden. Actually I get frequent visitors. I LOVE to see them but really wish they wouldn’t fill up on greens in MY garden.

We tried spraying a product …but the whole back yard smelled like Coyote urine…gross!!!!

Now that the blueberries are on the bushes, I sure hope they are not in to green berries as well. I really would like to be able to pick them when they are ripe.

Well, it’s Friday and we had a good rain overnight! Hopefully it will help the dryness we have been having!

I wish I could capture smell in pictures

It’s not possible, but oh how I wish pictures could capture smells. Then in the middle of winter you could look at the picture and sniff…

and oh….the smell of fresh picked strawberries!

They taste pretty good too.

In the garden today 🌾

Today was catch up with the weeds! It was a beautiful day so I spent most of it outside in the garden.

And now I’m laying here falling off to sleep as the rain gently falls and the thunder rumbles in the distance. Oh how I love summer !

Unexpected

A nice surprise knocked on my door this morning.

A friend that knows I love to bake and knows I love rhubarb dropped off some just freshly picked!

Guess what I did this afternoon?

Thanks so much, David especially enjoyed his after work snack and coffee today 😀

A mid week escape

Just what I needed! A mid week adventure with a friend! Yesterday, we went to Chester and browsed some shops, had lunch at a great little cafe, and then a sweet treat in Mahone Bay on the way home. Lots of stories and laughs…so much fun ALWAYS!

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I still remember …

A friend posted a picture on her Facebook page last night and immediately it took me back a few years… maybe 40 years …

…back to when I was a kid and would spent hours walking in the woods with my Dad or help him cut wood and keep his land trimmed from all the undergrowth. That was back in the day when my younger sister and I would spend many weekends with him on his acres of woodland while Mom worked. I didn’t do too much work, I was too little, but I had fun making Barbie doll houses out of moss ( yes I took my Barbies everywhere) and picking mayflowers and trilliums and lady slippers. I actually closed my eyes and could remember the woods road and trails, and which path went to what place and the places we got stuck or that were really mossy…even the places we made little forts. That was so long ago! Dad sold his woodland a few years back. He had only girls, and girls wouldn’t want woodland…lol

So when my friend posted this picture of the Lady Slippers growing in her wooded area garden…I remembered these special moments in time!

And a few more pictures of Lady Slippers in her garden. Aren’t they just perfect!

I guess that’s why I love orchids so much and they are one of my favs.

Thanks Peggy for the inspiration!

It’s Peak

My flowering crab apple tree is at it’s peak and so here are a few pictures because by this time next week it will be done and the trees will be green.

I LOVE LOVE weekends that are warm and we can enjoy eating outside ❤

🌸🌸🌸 Apple Blossom Weekend 🌸🌸🌸

That was quite a thunder and lightning storm we had in the wee hours this morning. It was one of those crash, bang, light up the whole sky storms, and it woke me up with a start. We don’t tend to have those kinda storms in these parts of the country so it was cool and… I guess I must have fell back to sleep.

This weekend is Apple Blossom Weekend in Nova Scotia, especially in the Annapolis Valley. Lots of events and activities and the Annual Apple Blossom Parade. While I really wanted to go, I also wanted to stay home and just do a couple things in my back yard. It’s getting just the way I want it so it’s fun to spend time there. I did manage to get to an Apple Orchard though, one more local, and walk down the path and smell that wonderful smell of the blossoms. There’s nothing like it!! I also picked up some rhubarb and apples so I could make a tasty treat to enjoy when we are relaxing tonight.

It was a fun day!

A little Friday afternoon project

We NEED to reinvent or revamp a backyard project we did last year…

David came home from work this afternoon with this.

The PROJECT…

Reinvent the fire pit!

Who doesn’t enjoy sitting outside around a campfire in the summer? I love it! And last weekend on the long weekend I wanted to have a fire and David said we couldn’t because there was a ban on fires. We live in town and there are many restrictions so it makes the amount of time and opportunity to use our fire pit very limited. So…I did some research and convinced David to make an investment and revamp our fire pit.

Revamp it to fit a propane fire bowl.