It's Been a While...

Gow Bridge post rainstorm

     ...but we have been having a LOT of rain and I have not been taking many photographs.  It has also been quite humid, so my energy levels are low and I have not been out exploring much on bike nor on foot.  It's killer humid today and my reading glasses are getting fogged up as I write this!

Still Life

     Instead of focussing on one thing we have done recently, I'm going to give a few, smaller updates.  The Guelph farmer's market has moved into the Exhibition Park Arena for the summer while they work on the old building.  It's a much larger space, but it has lost a lot of the intimacy of the older building and even though the ceiling is much higher, it feels airless most of the time.  CC bought some lovely field-grown roses and did some wonderful arrangements for the house including the one above.

New Lithops Emerging

     The house plants are all doing very well, especially when we moved a lot of them outside to get some of the torrential rainwater we have been experiencing.  Everything is looking lush and is sending out lots of new leaves.  The most interesting, by far, is the above Lithops or Stone Plant.  I bought it some months ago at Belgian Nurseries as I had always wanted one.  After flowering, they go dormant and shed their previous year's growth to reveal a shiny, new plant underneath.  It's like something out of a science fiction movie and happens very slowly.  I'm hoping to get it to flower this winter - stay tuned...

Black Raspberries

     We have six, mature Walnut Trees in the back yard, so it is impossible to have any kind of vegetable garden, although we do have an underused herb pot.  We do, however, have lots of black raspberries and I love going out into the back yard and picking all the ripe ones and eating them then and there.  If they have been warmed by the sun, even better!  They are not very sweet and have quite a lot of seeds in them, but are tasty nonetheless.