My family in Ontario has been talking about how cloudy it is there. I’ve always thought of Ontario as a cloudy province – sitting up against the Great Lakes I think that is the contributing factor. This brings me to Alberta and the prairie provinces in general. Here is where the sun lives. I often…
Tag: spring
Spring is in the air
Okay, so it’s the minus numbers and the garden is hidden under snow! I admit that’s true but Saturday we bugged over to Salisbury Greenhouse and just walking in gave the greatest feeling of being in June! Oh, my. What a wonderful sensation. Bright, warm, humid… and flowers! There’s a lushness to these places that…
Cutting off the deck
Our deck along the back of the house is/was 20 feet long. It has covered over the basement window where the bedroom/my office is. Philip made the recommendation that we take one end of the deck off to provide light and create a garden. So he went to work, and in no time flat the…
