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All kinds of Tulips

February 24, 2008 by Tricia

I think for many people, when they think of spring flowers they think of tulips. Am I right?

I grow several different types of tulips. There are fringed ones, lily tipped, long stem, short stemmed or dwarf tulips, regular garden variety tulips … I’m sure there’s another type or two that I grow.

Did you know that some tulips bloom in early spring, others in mid spring and that there are also late spring varieties? I grow some of each so that my garden is filled with tulips for the majority of the spring season.

I believe the white tulip that I included above is a lily tipped tulip. Some of it’s outer petals are longer than the rest and they arch up above the flower elegantly.

Do you grow tulips in your garden? Do you sometimes buy bulbs that have been forced so that you can have tulip or other spring bulbs blooming inside your house in late winter?

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On the boardwalk

February 23, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Wooden

I took this photo of the Boardwalk at the beach in Toronto last August. It was an overcast August day. Well, if I remember correctly it was more than overcast. It rained most of the day. Still we had relatives in town and they wanted to meet some of our other friends at the Beach Club so off we went.

We ended up sitting outside on the patio drinking beer as the rain fell upon us. We were under umbrellas but as you know when it rains out the water drips off the edges of the umbrella and I ended up sitting in one of the drippy areas! It was still a fun day.

So this is Toronto’s boardwalk. It’s wooden. I’m certain with our weather they must have to replace several of the boards each year. It must cost the city quite a bit of money but it’s such a lovely area and so well loved by city residents and tourists alike that I’m sure we’ll have the boardwalk for a long time to come.

I’m not sure how long the boardwalk is, but it’s got to be at least 3 miles long if not more.

Probably from Spring onward, once the weather gets nice, we’ll be talking our puppy down to the beach and the boardwalk every weekend. I’m sure she’ll love to swim in the water and walk along the beach.

Going to the In-Laws this weekend

February 22, 2008 by Tricia

I think we’re supposed to get together with the in laws this weekend.

It’s my husbands oldest sisters birthday and I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to go to my parent in laws for a dinner.

Of course we’ll bring the puppy along with us. I suppose if we were only going for a few hours she could stay at home, but we’ve got to go out of town to see the relatives so we’re bound to be away from home for several hours.

I can’t leave my little girl at home now can I?

In fact, since we’ve been having so many crazy snow storms lately there’s always the chance that our day trip could turn into an overnight trip. There’s a section of our trip that’s really dangerous to drive through when it’s snowing hard or just when the weathers bad in general. We’ve been caught in that area in bad fog, blowing snow and wind storms and it’s pretty scary.

I guess if we are going to the in laws I’ll pack up all of our travel gear just in case it ends up being an overnight stay. That means bringing extra food for the puppy too!

If I actually liked going to my in laws it wouldn’t be quite so bad ….

Now that’s a strange hitchhiker!

February 22, 2008 by Tricia

I love photos of animals in unusual places or doing funny things.

Take this for example.

You have to wonder just how often a bird has a chance to land or ride on a swimming turtle. I’m sure it doesn’t happen often and even less often is it captured on film!

A feast for the dogs

February 20, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

What’s the old saying about a dogs breakfast?

Well this sure isn’t breakfast. Looks more like a dinner feast for the dogs doesn’t it?

I think that if I set a fully cooked turkey down on the table in front of my Lab puppy it wouldn’t be sitting so patiently in the chair! She’d be right up on the table with her face deep in the turkey and I’m sure she’d think it was pure heaven!

My mother in law actually lost a turkey she’d just cooked, except she lost hers to a cat! The cat jumped up on the counter where the turkey was cooling and while no one was in the room it proceeded to eat about half the turkey! I can’t remember if it was Thanks Giving or Christmas when it happened, but needless to say we ended up having a much different main course than was planned.