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Still waiting for the snow to melt

March 23, 2008 by Tricia

Unfortunately my garden is still covered in snow. It’s been melting slowly, but at this rate it’s going to take at least a month before it’s totally gone. Sigh …

When the snow does finally disappear, beauties like these fringed tulips will make an appearance. I think these are my favorite tulips. Well, I’m also partial to Angelique tulips as well with their soft pink double petaled flowers.

How is your garden doing? Are you in a warmer area or are you still buried under snow like me?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Have you seen the bean?

March 22, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Metal

I’ve posted photos of Chicago’s famous Cloud Gate sculpture -aka The Bean – on a few of our blogs, but I don’t think I’ve posted this photo.

The bean is a huge spherical metallic sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Depending upon where you are standing when you gaze at the bean you can see different aspects of the surrounding city reflected in it’s almost spotless surface.

What you can see reflected in The Bean in this photo is what I think was a place called the Millennium Theater. It’s a huge outdoor theater or band shell and it’s got a gorgeous design.

Have you seen the bean?

Hoping my azaleas do well this year

March 16, 2008 by Tricia

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Just four more days and Spring will be here! I think I’ve pretty much said that in all three of my GTS posts today. Can you tell I’m excited?

I’ll have to wait until sometime in May before my two small Northern Lights Azalea shrubs begin to bloom, but that too is well worth the wait. I only wish that they weren’t so stingy with their flowers.

Perhaps this year, thanks to an abundance of snow cover to protect the plants and hopefully give them a good dose of moisture when it begins to melt, my azalea’s will do better than ever. I sure hope so!

Do you grow Azaleas?

Remember it’s Easter this weekend. If you don’t grow your own flowers, why not buy someone for someone special?

Better insurance rates for good driving record?

March 16, 2008 by Tricia

We’ve been with the same home and car insurance company since before we purchased our house. Back then, when we lived in an apartment, we only used the company for auto insurance. I guess we should have had our belongings at the apartment insured, but we didn’t. Lucky for us nothing happened!

Chris and I both have good driving records. Neither of us have ever managed to get a speeding ticket or any other kind of ticket. Well, Chris has had a few parking tickets, but that’s about it. So we’ve got very good driving records. I think maybe it’s time to call up our insurance company or perhaps another one and see if we can get an auto insurance quote that would bring down our payments.

We actually have pretty good rates right now, but I think that we might get better ones if we try to re-negotiate.

What do you think our chances of success are?

I’ve been meaning to call our insurance company anyway. Our dog is still a puppy but she’s a large breed dog (Lab) and I’ve heard that some people get their home insurance rates lowered a bit after getting a large dog. I guess it’s seen as home security.

Flag and flowers

March 15, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is I Spy

These lovely clematis grow at the front of my house, on the left hand corner if you’re facing the house, and the flowers wrap around the side of the house.

I didn’t realize when I took this photo that our Canadian flag would show up in the photo, nor would I ever have thought that it would make such a lovely background. I was quite pleased when I spied the flag in the photo.

Have you ever been concentrating on taking a photo of someone or something and then discovered that was was in the background was almost as interesting as the intended subject? I love it when that happens.

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