Mid - June 2018

Some gorgeous skies tonight. 

I wasn't going to post because I was late in getting photos together. 

It has been cloudy and raining a bit over the past several days. Today the sky was a bit unsettled but tonight the light is still bright enough.  I hurriedly snapped a few pics and  resized for sharing.

Next week we will have the official start of our summer season.

Despite our Spring season starting off rather hot, it has cooled down considerably.

That is probably good to help ensure we don't have so many wild fires this summer (time will tell).

I hope your season is treating you to glorious skies wherever you are.

A few blossoms from my container garden.

The last photo is of a friendly dog I met in the  neighbourhood. 

While I sat on a bench and rested he was wandering around. 

He came up to me several times so I could pet him and would have stayed longer

with me but his owner beckoned him home.

I noticed the dog's rich and luscious fur while petting him.

His owner must take very good care of him.

Sorry the photo is blurred.

I took it quickly and surreptitiously with my phone camera. 

I guess I was trying to take it a little too quickly.

This is a late entry for

Skywatch Friday 

Friday Foto Friends

and

Saturday's Critters 

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great weekend everyone.
Happy Father's Day to all you fathers out there.

The Little Patio Garden

The little garden has been keeping me quite busy with buying soil, mulch, more plants and pots to plant in. It hasn't rained much since I planted and I'm finding it hard to get the garden watered just right.  Behind the table there are more plants and plants in containers which I will feature as the garden matures. Many of the plants I bought were so root bound making it very difficult to get the water right where it needs to go even though I tried to break up the roots.  It's one of the reasons I'm spending more time than usual trying to make the garden grow.  I hope my efforts bear success and that everything will look a lot better in a few weeks.

Only two small strawberry plants are planted this year.  But I've been able to harvest a few small berries a few times already.  They make a nice little treat.  Maybe next year I'll be fortunate enough to find more strawberry starter plants or I'll get started earlier and plant my own seeds.  In the meantime I'm happy for what I do have and the little birds, bees and butterflies will have something to feast on.  I'm less happy about the big rat that ate all of my veggies last year before I could.  My neighbours only grow flowers so I guess he doesn't eat those. If my corn stalks grow the squirrel might come back. I really only try to grow corn for the squirrel to eat.

In the photo is a pile of my latest reading stash from the library. I've finished the book at the top of the pile, Bride of New France, about girls from a convent in Paris who make the voyage to Canada to settle with the men who came over before hand to trap for furs. It was a very interesting work of fiction based on history.

The other books are to whet my appetite for gardening in my small space.

Thanks for stopping by.
Enjoy your week.

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