Saturday Photo: A Beautiful Immigrant…
The fields along the CPR track through Mile End was full of dancing blue chicory (Cichorium intybus) flowers this morning. A lovely sight. The plant, of course, is an invasive…
Mary Soderstrom
Saturday (or rather Friday) Photo: Fête nationale and Brexit
This is what our house looked like yesterday, with our Quebec flag unfurled. The grandkids were over and we put it up together. They don't know the political import of…
Saturday (or rather Friday) Photo: Fête nationale and Brexit
This is what our house looked like yesterday, with our Quebec flag unfurled. The grandkids were over and we put it up together. They don't know the political import of…
Saturday Photo: Summertime and the Grass Is A-growin’
Summer won't arrive officially until sometime tomorrow, but that hasn't kept the grass and weeds from getting away from people. I'm always of two minds about overgrown, shaggy spaces. A…
Saturday Photo: Summertime and the Grass Is A-growin’
Summer won't arrive officially until sometime tomorrow, but that hasn't kept the grass and weeds from getting away from people. I'm always of two minds about overgrown, shaggy spaces. A…
Saturday Photo: Gate into Summer
The photo was taken a week or so ago, before the trees fully leafed out. But I think it shows nicely where we are headed--toward summer.Thanks goodness...
Saturday Photo: Gate into Summer
The photo was taken a week or so ago, before the trees fully leafed out. But I think it shows nicely where we are headed--toward summer.Thanks goodness...
Saturday Photo: Chestnuts in Blossom, Paris under Water
The song says: April in Paris, Chestnuts in Blossom. That's true as far as it goes perhaps, although when I've been there in early May the chestnuts were always lovely.They…
Saturday Photo: Chestnuts in Blossom, Paris under Water
The song says: April in Paris, Chestnuts in Blossom. That's true as far as it goes perhaps, although when I've been there in early May the chestnuts were always lovely.They…
Saturday Photo: Flowers for Wedding?
It's called bridal veil, I think, and this week its flowers are cascading gracefully everywhere around here. Several of the trees on the street were cut down early this spring…
Saturday Photo: Flowers for Wedding?
It's called bridal veil, I think, and this week its flowers are cascading gracefully everywhere around here. Several of the trees on the street were cut down early this spring…
Saturday Photo: Holiday, Just When We Need It
I've run this photo before. It's of the flag used by the Patriotes in 1837, when Canada had the nearest thing to a revolution that it ever had.This weekend we're…
Saturday Photo: Holiday, Just When We Need It
I've run this photo before. It's of the flag used by the Patriotes in 1837, when Canada had the nearest thing to a revolution that it ever had.This weekend we're…
Satuday Photo: After the Spring Rain
The roads aren't in great shape--the legacy of bad planning (probably) and a winter with a roller coaster of temperatures that turned the freeze and thaw cycle to new heights.But…
Satuday Photo: After the Spring Rain
The roads aren't in great shape--the legacy of bad planning (probably) and a winter with a roller coaster of temperatures that turned the freeze and thaw cycle to new heights.But…
Saturday Photo: Yello to Match the Sun
First nice weekend this spring. Really lovely. Going to do a barbecue for Mother's Day (Lukas will be doing the actual barbecuing, of course.)
Saturday Photo: Yello to Match the Sun
First nice weekend this spring. Really lovely. Going to do a barbecue for Mother's Day (Lukas will be doing the actual barbecuing, of course.)
Saturday Photo: Forsythia
Next up: forsythia. The first week in May is the week when the trees leaf out here. While the last week was pretty cold, with temperatures below freezing several mornings,…
Saturday Photo: Forsythia
Next up: forsythia. The first week in May is the week when the trees leaf out here. While the last week was pretty cold, with temperatures below freezing several mornings,…
Saturday Photo: Resistance, Plus a Slide Show
Always is nice to see how the force that through the green fuse drives the flower (as Dylan Thomas put it) continues to work. Here's a photo I took, plus…