Take a peek at our mother’s garden! Her flowers are clearly the most lush on the street, perhaps in the neighbourhood! Hyacinths are by far my favourite spring flower, so colourful and fragrant. I wasn’t so sure about these parrot tulips at first, but they are striking once they are fully opened!
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Annual Sail Past and Review of the Fleet
To open the sailing season each year, one of the local yacht clubs has a sail past on the Victoria Day weekend. All of the ships in the club must sail past the commodore while he salutes the fleet, one by one. Check out this year’s commodore above, which when we first saw him, he was […]
Gardens: Magnolias in Spring
These are just a few photos of some glorious magnolia blossoms in front of one of my favourite houses in the Annex. I took these shots just north of Central Tech School in mid-May. We waited such a long time for spring to appear, now I want to capture all of its beauty when I have the […]
The Secret Garden
A babbling garden stream, from Better Homes and Gardens. Since I was about 12 years old, I’ve read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden every spring. At the time, we were living in Saudi Arabia, where there was no spring or autumn. All we had was a blazing hot, dry summer, and then a winter that was […]
Canadian Style: Spring Dresses from Onze
1. Santa Marta Dress; 2. Orient Express Dress; 3. Conquest of the World Dress; 4. Candy Shop Dress; 5. Nightawt Dress; 6. Ship Ship Dress It has officially been spring for a few weeks, and now it’s sunny and almost even warm! I can’t wait to start wearing pretty spring dresses again and sipping lemonade on my […]