resurrection fern

treasures from greece

Deborah brought me home a few beautiful stones from Greece. If you want to see more of her amazing photographs you can find them here.

rules to dye by

I had a monday afternoon backyard dye party with Sonia, Geninne, Arounna and Barbara. So far I have come up with a few basic rules to dye by.

Dyeing at home is a good thing.

Dyeing amongst friends is a very good thing.

You can never dye enough.

It is better to have lots of pots to dye in.

Dyeing naturally is the very best way to go.

Geninne makes the very best  guacamole:)

Oh and BTW we dyed with both indigo and woad fermentation vats, coreopsis from the garden, brazil wood, logwood, and pomegranate with iron.

popping in with a few photos

as you can imagine we are having an amazing time but i just wanted to pop in and share a few images from the closing reception of the winged migration show and also the fabulous workshop at bookhou. I am almost certain that we will be able to convince geninne to visit again but maybe not during the hottest day on record in toronto. 

xo

m

come say hello tonight

if you are in the area please stop by to meet some fine feathered friends tonight at the closing party of winged migration. Geninne arrived last night and we want to continue to give her a warm welcome:)

 

sharing a few golden moments

just popping in to share a few of the multitude of golden moments my friend and i have shared thus far. 

tomorrow another friend arrives and she is hoping and praying that this heat wave ends:)

matthew has a new album

 

in case you don't recall, he is rebekah's talented husband. It is available as a free download here.

He is doing his first east coast music tour later on this week and they are visiting one of my favorite places in the world, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. 

 

off to the airport in a bit

to pick up my dear friend. I hope she loves Canada as much as I do.

i am sure we will be swinging by here once in a while to share a few pictures.

xo

m

the local trumpeter swans and a local eco hero

 Harry Lumsden is just such a local eco hero.  For nearly three decades the self-taught biologist, now 86 and retired from the Ministry of Natural Resources, with the help of dozens of volunteers has brought the trumpeter swans back to Ontario. There are well over 1,000 trumpeters in the south-central part of the province now and there were none in 1982 when he started the rescue program.

aren't those little ones adorable:)

wordless wednesday

summer brights

The garden is definitely glowing in the heat wave of mid july and I almost can't keep up with picking the black raspberries this year. Good thing we eat them up so quickly too. 

please help yourself:)