Category: gardening
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June!

A morning of sun and cloud, showers and blue sky. It’s June and purple is strewn across the landscape. Irises and a host of flowering bushes flood the world with hues of red, blue, and combinations thereof. It is a feast, brief and lush. Here on the coast most days remain chilly and damp. Yesterday…
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Aftermath

A dark, drear, chill, drizzly morning. Enough snow has melted that we can actually see the gardens! Last night the coyotes were calling in the field. Earlier this week they seemed to be in our back yard, maybe chatting with the filling moon. A couple of days ago a mixed flock, mostly robins, but also…
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Wildlife!

We may have had a freeze overnight; this morning there was frost on the cars and field. Now the sun is glare brilliant and there are thin white clouds beginning to build at the horizon, ahead of this evening’s storm. We still have good colour in the foliage that remains bordering our yard, and the…
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After the Storm

Bright sun welcomed us this morning. Now the sky is alive, alternating cloud and sun; suddenly overcast, then deep, rich, blue. It is hardly the quiet after the storm, the west wind howling past and bending the trees as far over as they will go. We received about an inch of welcome rain overnight; the…