Tag: summer

  • The Summer Bucket List

    Have you ever noticed how summer tends to speedy by, leaving you puzzling, as you shovel the driveway in January, over where the heck the time went and why you didn’t seem to get in any of the things you’d wanted/intended/planned to do? Me, too. But things are going a little differently at my house…

  • Spring: The Season of Too Many Projects

    It’s only just turned into spring out there, and already the to-do list on my refrigerator has grown to a length that will require several months to complete. I’d like to say this is a surprise to me, or at least out of the ordinary, but no…sadly, it’s all too familiar. Every year I swear up,…

  • The Last Rose of Summer

    I posted this pic to my Facebook page this morning, but then I decided it needed a more enduring place to reside…in part because any rose growing in Ottawa in November is worthy of such honour, but mostly so I can return to it in the midst of our frozen January and remind myself that summer…

  • Happy International Beer Day!

    It’s Friday, International Beer Day, and summer…and what better way to celebrate all three than with a cold one? Unless maybe you add a good book to your enjoyment… 😉 Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!   

  • Late June in the Garden

    And so June draws to a close. It’s hard to believe the time has moved so fast…and with it, the garden. Things that are in bloom one day seem to drop their petals the next, their beauty as fleeting as the summer itself. The idea that a mere five months from now, it will all…