Garden Gate Hinge

This hinge was on an old home-made screen door. The door belonged to an elderly widowed gardening client of mine and was made by her Swedish husband. It has been hanging on our garden fence for probably more than 15 years now.

Garden Update

The garden is doing well with the warm Spring, new soil and stone work.
Peas on the peas, flowers on the cucumbers and fresh garden salads.

Garden Project

After 35 years of gardening the vegetable garden was feeling a little tired. Our middle daughter Maria thought it would be a great idea to make rock bordered raised beds so this past week she helped us redo the garden. I gathered rocks from my forest path building with the tractor while my wife and daughter worked on the beds. We dug out some of the old soil and replenished it with compost/manure garden soil. We finished most of the planting yesterday and are now waiting to see what comes of it all.

A ‘before’ picture of the garden

Maria starting her stonework

The finished garden

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Kiwi Calligraphy

Protection

This window box had become the perfect deer salad bar. Just the right height for a deer to pick and choose it’s favourite colour. After many years we have learned that we can fight nature or else find a way to learn to get along with it. This means our yard has a bit of a prison yard motif with wire fences and protection over anything we really cherish.

Shell on the Fence

A Spring shot of one of our ‘fence finds’ hanging on the garden fence. A clam shell found while kayaking.

Another Yesterday’s Snow Day

Our snow day turned out to be a two day affair. A bit of a novelty for us so I’ll do one more posting of snow.

The House

The Road Out

The Garden

Snowy Fence Find 1

Snowy Fence Find 2

Shelf

The Front Yard

Yesterday’s Snow Day

Snow on Moss

Kiwi Twist

Cedar Boughs

Snowing

Rhodo

Snow Mesh

Fence Pattern

Smoke Tree

Douglas Fir Tips

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Frosted Garden

Snow – 2013

I realize most of North America has had snow for some time but this is our first for the year so we’re right on time for the first day of Winter. We amassed about 4 inches (10 cm) so schools were closed and there was traffic mayhem.

The Front Yard

The Witch Hazel is just starting to bloom and will do so until nearly the end of February,
filling the Winter air with the beautiful scent of it’s flowers.