While exploring a new neighbourhood, the street we were on suddenly came to an end on the edge of a small wildlife garden. This rather whimsical looking plant, commonly known as prairie smoke or old man’s whiskers was sharing the sun with some other native plants.
More glimpses of neighbourhood gardens.
It’s been a very cold few days so when it warmed up enough to take a walk, it was nice to see that the flowers are right on schedule.
It’s nice to see what’s coming up in the neighbourhood gardens. I liked the metal trellis as well.
These lilies of the valley are among the flowers in the garden of the old house I featured on my blog yesterday.
We’ve been waiting a long while for a show like this.
The weather has been up and down lately. Today’s high was 11C, last Friday it was in the high 20Cs. The tulips don’t seem to mind though.
As well as wild violets, there’s no season quite like spring 😊.
Among the first flowering plants we see in the spring are forsythia. Always a welcome sight.
The best kind of snow drops are the kind pushing through the warming earth 😊
I like the shape and colours of this flowering plant. The flowers contrast nicely with its dark leaves.
A simple wildflower can really shine in the right light.
Fleabane daisies symbolize a kind of innocence as well as being tough and resilient.
It’s not quite daisy weather yet, but the temperature rose to 9C today and I saw a few people wearing shorts 🇨🇦 !
It won’t be too long before the Scilla push their way through the dried leaves and brighten the landscape.
It’s snowing (again) but before too long spring’s turn will come. Here’s a preview of coming attractions…
I’ve been enjoying the photos of Snowdrops some bloggers have been posting recently. It will be some time before they appear here along with these wild violets that we see in spring. As we slog through February I needed a bit of colour.
I spend a good deal of the winter looking forward to spring; on a day like this particularly, when the temperature is in the -20s C, though the sun is shining. A look back here at more pleasant times 😊
The days are sunny and cold right now, here’s a bit of warmth to add to the mix.
It turned very cold overnight with the temperature now hovering at -17C. I thought this was the perfect time to revisit some summer scenes. Besides I can’t use my camera while wearing mitts 😏
While looking for a photo to post, I came across this flower I took last spring. A sweet memory 😔.
We’re under a winter weather advisory (10 cms/4 inches is forecast). Luckily, I don’t have to be anywhere today and can watch the snow fall and swirl around from my window. When I was a kid the schools stayed open even with considerable snow. The snowfall would have to approach 25 cms/10 inches before we had a snow day. We could count on several each winter growing up.
I thought the daylily I took this summer would provide something else to look at 😏
Just two weeks ago, I saw this flower in a neighbour’s garden. Now the temperature struggles to get to +6 C during the day. No snow though 😏
I always find laneways interesting. You never know what you’ll come across which is part of the attraction.
It was a nice surprise to see this flower blooming among the fallen leaves.
Among all the elaborate Halloween displays, it was nice to see this lively Chinese Lantern plant in the mix as well.
I look for these wildflowers in the same spot every year. They grow on either side of a small footbridge in a nature reserve. Taken last month when it still felt like summer 😏
More autumn scenes. We’re having a wonderful fall, cold one day and warmer the next; the leaves are hanging on and so are many flowers.
It’s been cool and grey out, so I thought a swallowtail on a coneflower would brighten the mood.
I took these photos on a recent walk. As the days get cooler I linger a little longer and look a bit more closely at my surroundings.
At the end of summer the flowers in the fields are looking pretty spent, but there are some like this salsify that aren’t going quietly.
Despite their name, New England Asters are native to many Canadian provinces. We see them from mid-August through October. These were at the edge of a pond in good company.
I had wondered how sneezeweed, this attractive wildflower got its common name. Indigenous people and early settlers ground it up for medicinal use as well as to make snuff, It certainly brightens up the landscape in late summer and has never once made me sneeze 😏
Sunflowers always have a nice long run. Some are beginning to fade but this bunch is still looking bright.
It’s nice to see the bees still gathering pollen in early September. Many flowers look like they’ve been picked over by now but it seems they still have a little more to give.
Still sunny and bright but these sunflowers are slowly starting to fade.
As summer winds down I especially enjoy walks by the river. The local flowers are beginning to fade but the sunflowers are still bright and dance in the wind alongside the grasses.
You have to marvel at their technique 😊
Sunflowers are such cheerful looking flowers. These flowers were practically beaming at me as I walked up to them.
This is the second silver-spotted skipper I’ve seen recently. When I did get a clear shot, it was flying off but did display some of the silver that it’s known for.
I came across these attractive flowers in the garden of a small theatre. They occupied their own flower bed, no need for a supporting cast 😏
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