Sometimes I wish it didn’t take me quite so long to be resigned to the end of the gardening season. It’s only mid-October and I am already longing for spring. Yes, spring. I’d like to zoom right by winter and be watching my spring bulbs flower. It seems as if each October, a niggling sense…

On this rather blustery and wild 4c (42f) morning, I found this ladybug clinging for dear life to the house. Can you see her? At least the planter provides some protection from the wind. One of the best things about taking a watercolour class is that I am paying far more attention to flowers and…

After having seeing gorgeous Morning Glory photographs on Layanee’s blog, I was wishing mine hadn’t all succumbed to frost. Dreaming about something usually doesn’t make it happen right there and then, but in this case, it did. If you look at the photograph on right, you’ll notice a dark purple Morning Glory bloom in the…

Although there are still flowers in the garden, most are playing hide – n’-seek beneath a thick carpet of leaves. I usually let them stay that way because I know it won’t be long before the first snowfall blankets them over.The pond, too, is covered in leaves, but that doesn’t seem to bother the fish.…

As I looked around my garden today, I was surprised by the number of flowers still in bloom. Many of them survived the -7 celsius frost, including all the blooms pictured here. While most of the Amaranthus plants froze, I have not pulled them out of the garden just yet. The long, rope-like flowers, with…

I am officially finished stenciling the garage wall. What mixed feelings of relief, excitement, nostalgia and wonder! During this past week, I was worried that the weather would not cooperate and that it wouldn’t be finished until spring. Well, after temperatues hitting -7 celsius last week, the weather started to improve. That is an understatement…

Tonight while I was practicing the violin and moaning about the cold weather, my son took some pictures of me. The light wasn’t great, but I figured I should show off my new hairdo. (Now I realise it looks quite a bit like the picture in my profile. It just seems different to me because…

This weekend, I had a great time making a tote for the muslin tote swap, through Caterine’s blog. My swap partner, Trish, has a wonderful and fun blog at Sweet Nellie. Before I did the final packaging of the tote for its journey southward, I took a picture of it because I quite liked the…

Sometimes our days don’t work out quite as we planned. Last night I was on a good roll and planned to finish stenciling the final vines on my garage wall. After Benoît, my son, went to school this morning, I wandered out to start playing with my paints. Within minutes, a gentle rain started. So…

Since it was the Labour Day weekend here, I figured it would be fun to have a party last night. What a blast it was. My son and I were surrounded by friends and music. My new back garden sitting area was just large enough to contain us all. The weather was fine and the…