It's been snowing ... Mid-March in Montreal we wouldn't expect anything else - other than that friends from milder climates are sharing pictures of green grass and spring flowers while our brave clump of snowdrops that was standing tall yesterday is once again (third time) buried from site. Nevertheless, it's been a beautiful morning [...]
This week started with the appearance of some exposed areas of grass and leaf-litter without snow - still a lot to melt away and now at the end of the week we are promised more snow. Mid-week we had a couple of days of rain and slightly above zero temperatures so that the small [...]
Last week we had a good area of snow-free ground and were getting excited about possibilities for the next few days despite some bone-breaking night temperatures, a distinctly colder than usual for the date -20C to start the week off … but now we have to say there is almost no gardening at all [...]
February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. ~J.R. Stockton A Note: Maybe a weekly edition is a bit ambitious in mid-winter and so, depending on what happens, we will scale back a bit and publish less frequently until the snows start to retreat … BUT, never more [...]
Almost too warm (15C above seasonal norm) and muggy. Found the first small bunch of dwarf iris flowers mingling with the crocus ... but they are going to regret it as the forecast for tomorrow reads thus: "Cloudy. Rain beginning in the morning. Amount 10 to 20 mm. Wind south 20 km/h becoming west 30 [...]
After a really nasty weather-weekend, we are just thankful that the worst of the storm passed to the south of us and we don't live anywhere near electricity-free Toronto this Christmas. Today, Christmas Eve it is a beautiful, bright, sunny -15C and the garden looks gorgeous. All's well with the world ... Sunrise [...]
The Cardinal "gang" have been very busy today and I wanted to put some more effort into learning the intricacies of the new cameras - so here are cardinals galore. I know the males are the flashy ones but I actually rather prefer the more subdued females. The Christmas tree is almost up, the Goose [...]
A truly spectacular, bright, sun-filled and bitterly cold day today after yesterday's general nastiness. Temperatures of -17degC (-29 with the windchill factored in) but with a good coat and a "stout heart" excellent for walking and taking the air. Down by the river at the end of the road (you must all be sick of [...]
It doesn't get better than this ... and yesterday the river was open, overnight freezing was very rapid
This is being written from eastern Canada where we get a lot of snow, where it gets jolly cold and where life goes on. In the past few days the news has been filled with two stories – one a big dump of snow hitting the eastern US and the other being the inability of [...]