Garden Porn

I have been having "fits" over the front garden.  Last year I dug out all the rocks the former owner "planted" (god only knows why, as there was no rhyme or reason to them and they certainly weren't creating a rock garden - unless rocks laid on a flat bed were her idea of a "rock garden")

This year I gave up trying to figure out what most of the plants that were squeezed between those rocks were supposed to be (other than weeds that is) and dug 99% of them out.  But that left me with a rather sick pathetic looking garden

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On Saturday - before the phone call and the boat cruise - W took me to the garden center and left me to poke and prod and browse.  I finally settled on 7 plants - 3 Blanket plants - 3 Pinks - and 1 Echinacea.

On Sunday I gathered up my shovel, my edger, my 3 pronged thingy, my watering can, my fertilizer, my garden gloves and garden hat and the hose and set out to work on the front garden.  Three hours later I was finished..............

Now I just have to wait 

and hope

That this garden will be up to my standards........ 

Over the bounding main

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On the spur of the moment - prompted by a phone call from close friends - W and I took off Saturday afternoon and went on a 3 hour boat trip - and no we didn't get shipwrecked with the Professor and Mary-Ann. (ummmmmmm how many of you remember THAT TV show?? )

It was a glorious hot day - lots of sunshine - but out on the water the sea breezes blew and we hardly noticed the heat.  AND because most of the ship was glassed in - you didn't even have to be in the sun!  that pleased W and our friends........ but I escaped for a little bit - top side - to bask in the sunshine and shoot some photographs .........

We toured some of the islands in the 1000 Islands - where the rich and famous have summer homes. (W and I plan to take the main boat cruise of the 1000 Islands and Boldt Castle later this summer.  Now that cruise really does show case the wealthy summer homes)

Here are some of my favourite shots...............

 
one of the Fort towers (there are 9 of them I believe along the coast line) to protect us from the invading Americans 

This 'cottage' was built in the 1800's.  The owner was an admirer of Napoleon and had the cottage designed to look like Napoleon's hat.  Can you imagine??!!  It was also the first cottage to have electric lights. 

 Some of the islands are too small to build on........ this island has a houseboat (top left corner) to live on - and the island is their entertainment area - complete with gazebo. 

There were lots of boats out on the water on Saturday - and one of them was towing a canoe - we watched as waves tugged and flipped the canoe until the tow rope broke........ and the canoe was filling up with water fast.  We didn't see if they actually rescued it before it met a watery death.............

And the rest are just shots that caught my eye................ 

and last but certainly not least the man I call "Sir" 

  

Sunday Sentiments

Just a quickie

Things to do - people to see - garden centers to visit (yeah yeah still working on the front garden - it is pathetic !)

But I had to share one picture with you all today.............

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We went to the munch last evening - and then we all invaded vanilla Kingston (cheeky grin) in disguise of course as vanilla folk.............

Some of us had a new Canadian delicacy - Beaver Balls for dessert - yes you heard me right .... BEAVER BALLS!!

they were probably the BEST balls I have ever eaten (cheekiest grin)

 

This 'n That - not much of anything

First of all I want to wish all my readers who live south of the border a 
HAPPY JULY 4th!!  

We are spending the day waiting for the clean up crew - for the flooded basement - to return and either remove all their drying equipment or leave it for the weekend..... le sigh.  Poor W is up to his eye teeth in paper work with the Insurance company.......... 

Tonight we have a munch to attend here in Kingston - to be honest my favourite munch of all the munches.  And afterwards we are gonna take a walk to the Beaver Tail food truck and have dessert probably with most of the munch crew......

Yesterday it rained here.......... yeah I know I don't normally give weather forecasts - but there is a reason.  Late in the afternoon when the insurance adjustor was sitting with W doing all that paper work..... I was outside having a smoke (yeah yeah I know - still haven't managed to fully quit).... and my eyes were drawn to my neighbour's bush and the water droplets on the leaves.  I couldn't resist!  So I grabbed my camera and did some work with the macro lens ............ Here's some of the best shots........

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