resurrection fern

its your birthday tamara !!

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"Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom.

They just open up, and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful ;^)

jim carrey

i have never been so proud of my beautiful eldest daughter

she has finished her university degree in social work after a long time away from studies

and has just been informed of her placement for next year for her MSW program in geriatric social work

she will be working at one the very best hospitals in canada , Sunnybrook Health Science

in geriatric psychiatry with an emphasis on community outreach

such an amazing achievement

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

these photographs were from a wonderful prebirthday weekend in ottawa with family and friends

the red and black theme was totally by accident

or was it

:)

xo

a very proud mommy

 

lupine seeds were found in the tombs of ancient egypt

over two thousand years BC

i found this article about them really fascinating

it made me appreciate them all the more

my garden is exploding with pink and purple towers with hints of yellow

they are taller than lilith

i love photographing them

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this weekend i am taking a short road trip to Ottawa to visit family and my lovely friend nicole

i know a few spots where the lupines grow wild and hope to collect enough flowers to do some dyeing

the flowers give a gorgeous bright lime green and the leaves a lovely yellow without any additives

snow white spring

we have had such a wonderful slow spring

wide temperature flucutations

winds and storms

we even had a little snow as recent as last friday morning

i am a lover of colour in life and nature

but today i bring you a tribute to white with some photographs i took recently

i especially love the polkadot petals on the leaves

and

the poetic almost petalless anemones

xo

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i love the teapot white tulip too!!!

 

jack

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some forest friends you only get to see for a brief time once a year

it is good to spend some quality time with them

jack in the pulpit was one of my father's favourite flowers

 

intermission with tulips

a little break from blogging about my fogo island experience

to show you what's happening in my garden

tulips !!!!

in all colours shapes and sizes

some early bloomers and others yet to show their true colour

they always make me smile

and

i thought they might make you do the same

happy victoria day!

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edgar loves tulips too :)

the perks of being a wildflower

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you get to wear paper thin leaves as hats and jackets

you get to practice origami yoga even when you are just a newborn

you get noticed even though you are small

you can gather in large groups in the soil of your liking

you get to change colours as you age and it only makes you more beautiful

truly

xo

your not so secret admirer

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magic sparkling frosty morning dotted with scilla blueness

all this week

time to revist my dye journal i started over three years ago

fill a jar with blueness and dye some raw silk

have a beautiful weekend

xo

m

wordless wednesday

xo

m

cooling off with lili

it is the warmest summer so far

and we find lots of fun ways to stay cool

lili and i gathered only edible flowers and leaves from the garden

filled up a vintage enameled wash basin with water 

and then had fun spashing about

we spent the entire evening outside in the back yard 

Lili got to meet Kevin ( Deborah's bf) again:)

I guesss you can see why we only picked edible flowers 

Lili can sit quite well now

she can say all her vowels

and when she says ahhhhhh

you would swear she was singing

she loves deborah's floral bikini hanging on the line

(special thanks to deborah for snapping the photographs with oma)

 

you have seen a bee and a fly

but have you ever seen a bee-fly or more specifically Bombylius major

I have been spending quite a bit of time out working on our garden

on friday I was admiring the layers of brown eyed susans in full bloom

when a furry little flying creature came into the view of my lens

It looked like a bee but it wasn't a bee

it looked like a fly but it wasn't a fly

it had a very long proboscis similar to those of butterflies and moths

It was a very cooperative model for me 

and then it flew away and hasn't been seen since

edgar had no idea what the fuss was about

:)