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Hatchlings and seedlings

Remember Phoebe the hummingbird with the webcam? Well, after an extended run of bad maternal luck, including lizard attacks on her nest, non-viable eggs, and eggs eaten by crows, she celebrated Mother’s Day with the hatching of her daughter, Hope. Hope is the size of a thumbnail. There’s still one egg left to hatch. You […]

I got my community garden plot back!

Remember I said I’d lost my community garden plot because I missed a key gardening meeting, and the notice said in big bold type that anybody who didn’t attend or send regrets would forfeit their plot?

After three weeks of feeling bad and procrastinating about it, I finally picked up the phone yesterday and called […]

Good enough

The Ornamental Gardens

I felt a little rush of happiness yesterday.

Every day I go for a walk, usually around the Experimental Farm. Yesterday I went a little further than usual, to the Ornamental Gardens.

It was a lovely day, sunny and breezy, and I wandered around the Gardens, studying the plants and their labels. […]

Day 2 of Ottawa’s Best Weekend of the Year

GC and I headed out around 8:30 in the morning to watch the Marathon. I like to watch from Dow’s Lake, around the 37km mark – they still have about 5km to go. A lot of them are running on sheer willpower by this point.

The winner, while he was in 6th place

Unlike other […]

Look what I got!

Look what I got today!

Do you know what it is? Here’s a hint:

Here’s a really BIG hint:

I got the last available plot in the Organic Community Garden behind the Carlington Community Health Centre! Can you believe my good luck?

I’m very excited about this, even though gardening has never been my forte and my […]