Aisle of View

Springtime is in the air. Our garden is starting to blossom in colour. Here is the pathway to the back yard. This is the way in to see a lot of the sights. It's an Aisle of View.

It visually leads to an island on the other side of the lawn. In this bed are a couple of hicks yews. This is an Isle of Yew. If you sit on the aluminum bench here, it is also an Isle of View.
The rhubarb is in full "bloom"- great big lush leaves. Soon to be in a pie.

New Mini Peppers

When we were in Kauai, we went to Costco and found some red and yellow mini peppers. Saved some of the seeds- just for fun. Brought some home and last summer grew some of the seeds in the garden. They were great. They ripened well, they tasted sweet. We loved to toss them in some oil and maybe some herbs or seasoning- throw them on the bbq. Roasted mini peppers. They produced well, at the end of the season. barbeques some extras and put them in the freezer. Could have used a lot more during the winter.


Any way, the other day found some mini's at Costco again. Not exactly the same. These ones are mini-bell shaped; the others were more pointed. Well, let's try growing a few of these this year to see what happens.

Any way, the other day found some mini's at Costco again. Not exactly the same. These ones are mini-bell shaped; the others were more pointed. Well, let's try growing a few of these this year to see what happens.

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Killdeer Nest

A Killdeer made a nest in the driveway gravel.

Camoflauge Eggs

Can you find the eggs in this picture? Almost ran over them.

Don't know which parent lead me away but take a closer look. . . .A set of Killdeer eggs.

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Pixel Painting

Continued to do some more painting from where we started last fall with the family room carpet. With our high cathedral ceilings in the living room- how can we do this?

We could get a long handled roller and paint as high as we needed. The problem was the edge. Someone would still have to go up to the top to and paint the edge of the wall where it met the ceiling. Mucho trouble.

When we were painting at the Heritage Green Church renovations, we had to paint the bottom half of the Cry Room (Mother's Room for the rest of us.) Tim, our fearless leader said to use the roller and just taper off with new paint onto the old part. Mind you, this was with the same colour paint.

So, I got to thinking, why can't we do that at home. The new grey is close to but not exactly the same shade as the old gray. We can just run the roller up into the old part, taper the colour off gradually. Then the idea came to me- why I have a roller that is only 4 inches wide- if we use that the strips will be narrower and therefore blend better.

Somehow though, the picture in my head of how this would work reminded me of the old computer graphics trying to smooth a rounded edge. If you looked close enough, or blew it up enough, it wasn't really a curved line, it was a series of steps that looked like a curved line.

Of course, being an extremist, I went to the next step and thought- let's go smaller than a roller. Voila- that sponge that we used a long time ago to do a wall. Using a sponge will allow our "pixels" to be that much smaller.

But also in the meantime, we realized that the bottom part of the wall was the part that got the most scratches, nicks, bumps and scrapes, not to mention the finger prints and smudges. So why not use a darker colour on the bottom.

Then looking at the pictures on that wall, the hills in the picture undulate- rising and falling. This meant our transition should not be all in a straight line.

Thanks to Greg (and his artistry) we were able to achieve a great looking wall. The top is the old colour, the bottom is the darker new grey that will hide a multitude of sins, and we didn't have to climb up to do the top edge.

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Made of the Mist at Niagara Falls

Margot, Jackie's cousin was visiting from Panama. We caught up to them at Niagara Falls.
This tree was covered in ice. A pretty picture with the falls in the background. (oh and the icy tree is nice, too)



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Rustic Russnells

Went to Oshawa on the GO train to pick up our Lease Busters vehicle. (was that our first time on that train- reminded me of our trip into London last summer)
Went to visit Margaret and Dave at their new home outside of Oshawa. Great country location. Quiet, peaceful, serene. Went for a Sabbath afternoon walk. Someone got a "soaker." But it was great to enjoy the scenery, fresh air and snow. Thanks for the loan of your boots, Dave.