I took these photos on the weekend while walking in one of my favorite woods. Some of the photos are taken with Camera+, one with qbro, some with Instagram, and some with Hipstamatic.
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wildflowers
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Tagged autumn, fall, harvest, indian summer, photographs, wildflowers
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swing
Last week I swung with my mother on my parents’ two-seater garden swing. Summer bliss. I appreciate swings. And summer.
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Tagged evening, geranium, outdoor swing, pink, porch swing, summer
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shady tea
Sunday afternoon I left my apartment and was surprised to find one of the other tenants hosting a small get-together under one of the majestic purple maples that shade the front of our building. They had arranged assorted wooden chairs from her apartment in a semi-circle under the tree, and a few small folding tables [...]
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Tagged apartment, friends, picnic, purple maple, shade, summer, Sunday afternoon, sunshine, tea, tree
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watering
The local papers have been full of stories lately about how desperately the city’s trees need to be watered. We’ve had a hot, dry and stressful summer for trees, and homeowners can help young or vulnerable trees survive by watering them regularly. As much as I love trees, and as important as I think tress [...]
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Tagged drought, heat wave, London Ontario, ReForest London, summer, trees, watering
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boardwalk
I actually took this photo not one, but two weekends ago, when I was walking in one of my favorite nearby woods. This path was flooded for most of the spring, and the day I took this photo was the first time I’d walked this way since last fall. (That’s the swampy edge of a [...]
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Tagged boardwalk, hike, hiking, path, walk, Walkers Pond, woods
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getting my hands dirty
I love it – getting my hands dirty. This is a picture of my left hand after weeding my parents’ vegetable garden. There’s just something about dirt that says THIS IS REAL, PEOPLE. I appreciate dirt, and gardens, and short fingernails.
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Tagged beet greens, dirt, dirty hands, gardening
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purslane
Purslane is a weed that grows abundantly in North America, as well as many other parts of the world. I first read about it being edible in Viana La Place’s Unplugged Kitchen – one of my favorite cookbooks of all time, because of La Place’s short anecdotes and memories of growing up in an Italian [...]
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Tagged edible, purslane, weeds, wildcrafting
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more peonies!
Taken this past weekend (although I forget where – isn’t that funny?). Pretty white peonies with yellow centres…
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Tagged blossom, flower, peony, white, yellow
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unter den linden
One of my favorite, favorite smells of all time is the delicate scent of linden blossoms. Yesterday when I was taking my daily lunchtime walk I noticed it – the lindens were finally out! This is a photo I took of the linden tree I was passing at the time. I remember reading once that [...]
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Tagged blossoms, flowers, linden tree, perfume, scent
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mock orange
I took these photos in my parents’ garden several days ago. I think this is called a mock orange bush (but I may be wrong). It’s pretty, whatever it is. I appreciate pretty.
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Tagged blossoms, bush, flowers, garden, mock orange, shrub, white
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