Yesterday the weather was miserable. It rained all day and it was cold to boot.
This morning the sun rose and shines still. Although it is still sweater weather, it is beginning to warm.
We visited Terra and Lares on Monday evening for a few hours, to share time with our Grandbabies Sunny and Sky, it was their first birthday. They are both doing very well, happy and healthy, and still a bit small for their age. Sunny, the girl, is a going concern, very active and engaged with the world around her. Sky, the boy, is laid back and mellow, and quick to grin, and oh what a smile. Sunny is almost walking, holding on to a push wagon for now, but not for long. Sky has no interest in standing, and is crawling when he sees something he wants to play with. They are so much fun! I lay on the floor with them the whole time we were there, they crawled around me, on me, and over me, what fun! It was a treat at the close of a dreary day.
Terra tells me that Luna, Janus and their Grandbabies are staying in Paris at the moment. Luna is not one to keep up contact, so Terra was very pleased to have received a video from Sunny and Sky’s cousins in Paris, singing happy birthday to them. I have been sending messages to the Grandbabies in Europe, and even received a reply the first week, but have not heard from any of them since, and don’t expect to. I continue to send messages though, just in case they read them.
Today I am busy crocheting a second cotton beanie to use while working in the bush, at the Rideau Camp. The first cotton beanie, a green and white cap, was great for keeping my hair out of my eyes, and for keeping the mosquitoes from biting my head. The yellow jackets thought I was a flower, and kept buzzing my head in confusion. I would stand very still and allow their winged investigations, as they would soon loose interest and move on. It is important not to frighten them, for then they might sting. The second cotton beanie is a brown and white one, and it remains to be seen if it will attract the wildlife.
I’ve just come out onto the back porch to sit in the sun for a while. The birds are singing all around, one little fellow is sitting on the fence near me, so only my fingers are moving so as not to frighten him away. There are insects flying to and fro, which is probably part of the reason there are so many birds about. In the garden five yellow and purple irises are blooming, as are the pink wild geraniums. Two columbine plants seeded themselves at the bottom of the the back step, and have put out profuse blooms. The clematis has climbed the fence, and it growing its way across the fence railing, it will be very pretty when it blooms. I can see the wild grape growing up the center of the Mugo Pine, again, every other year I make an attempt to kill it, and every other year it comes back again.
The laundry I hung up on Monday afternoon, when it was raining, is finally dry, and ready to be folded and put away.
The neighbour who backs onto our back yard has had magnificent children’s playground equipment set up for their only child, a daughter. She has just become a teenager, started high school, and they have now erected a basketball net on a stand on the driveway. Over the weekend the playground was dismantled, and sold segments of it were carted away to be reconstructed in other back yards, played on by other happy children. Some bits are still there, but they will soon be gone, as the landscaper who cares for their yard will soon be there to mow their large lawn, and keep everything looking manicured for them.
Our garden is doing well, but we still have not got our beans and squash planted! Our garlic, given to us by my Mom and Sister-The-Middle-Girl, is doing very well, as are the onions. Attila loves to garden, it relaxes him. I am different, to me the garden is work, and I think that comes of growing up on a farm, and working as a farm labourer during my teenage years; too much time spent stooped on the ground in the hot sun, or on ladders in trees on still humid days. I am very grateful that Attila finds it relaxing!!
It looks like we are in for some milder weather, at last!
Worldly Distractions
Weather
15°C
Date: 12:00 PM EDT Wednesday 7 June 2017
Condition: Mainly Sunny
Pressure: 101.9 kPa
Tendency: Rising
Temperature: 14.9°C
Dew point: 10.7°C
Humidity: 75%
Wind: S 17 km/h
Visibility: 24 km
Quote
“Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!”
Henry David Thoreau
1817 – 1862
Maybe the past truly was the good old days.
Yes, it’s a beautiful day here, too! The sun is quite warm but the breeze is cool. As long as you have both it’s quite comfortable.
We have 2 clematis and a porcelain vine climbing up our deck. The lefthand clematis has large buds just about to bloom. The righthand clematis has very tiny buds and will probsbly bloom in early July. The porcelain vine has green grape-like leaves splashed with white. When we get closer to fall it will produce berries that will go from bright green, to near black, and then to speckled blue like a robin’s egg. It’s so fun to watch the unusual color changes!
Along the side yard last fall’s daylilies are now about a foot tall while the new spring plants at the end of the driveway are about 6 inches tall. I’m hoping for at least a few flowers this year.
It sounds like it’s supposed to be a warm summer-like week here, this week. Time for some nice days out on the deck!
Your garden sounds beautiful Teri. I had to look up the porcelain vine, what an interesting plant! There is so much pleasure to be had with flowers, and berries.
Isn’t it wonderful how plants keep doing what they are supposed to do, even though the weather is miserable. I’m amazed at the profusion of bloom on my perennials, a bit of joy during such a gloomy spring. We’ve never seen such weather here, and wish things could just be normal!
Diane, it has been a most unusual spring here in Ontario too! It seems that Mother Nature is very flexible when it comes to weather. So cold and wet. I think we will only notice it when it comes time for fruit to ripen, as it needs the kiss of sun and heat to be sweeten. Last summer we faced drought conditions, which could still develop, but at least the plants are off to a very good start this year. Lake Ontario is as high as it has ever been, and we have seen homes, built on ground thought to be safe and dry, surrounded by water. Our depleted aquifers are being replenished.