A Special Place

On the occasion of the election of President Obama, The Girl’s high school, under the leadership of a creative and caring educator, produced this video. Not in America. In Toronto.

A special place and a special time. A reason to hope.

Obama

Giving Thanks 2012

July 1st

Camera on the blink. I find I do not reach for the other camera the same way I  do with my own. So an entire evening of photo opportunities. Poof.

Captured the gang headed down to the school yard to watch the totally amazing community fireworks.

Also Tim went out last week and bought a flag pole and a flag.  In this neighbourhood flags are hung for Canada Day.

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Garden

Honestly. PicMonkey is the best. Rarely if ever do I think about Picnik.

Columbine recently purchased. Roses. Yay. Hard to grow where we used to live. Here apparently effortless. This is a climbing rose which will move to the front of the house once the garden bed is properly dug and fed. Oma’s peony.

Havana

PicMonkey now has a collage function. Happy. Happy. Happy.

Victoria Day Weekend

We are dog sitting for the weekend. Clover is her name. They are a team.

Lots of equipment arrived on Friday. Tim is digging out and laying the foundation for our terrace and a stone walkway to the garage.

You have to close your eyes and imagine flagstone. And because we had all this big equipment on site – Tim removed the two overgrown shrubs from the front garden bed. We had tried cutting them back with ambiguous results. In the end the choice was to say goodbye.

Where the Shrubs Were