Daybyday cum Garden cum Recollections etc. etc.

Off on my sidebar I have this long list

of Blogs which once I posted to

enthusiastically and with great energy

but times have changed

and so I have decided to amalgamate...,

(there's a good word)

the main reason being that I feel lazy and unproductive

when I go from one ABC Wednesday letter

to the next, without anything in between

even though I think in my mind

of a thousand things I'd like to write about!

So tonight it is DaybyDay cum Garden

and the picture above is redolent of the garden

in mid-summer

when all the springtime pastels have 

said farewell and the

vivid reds and yellows and purples of summer

come into their own.

I have stolen a few new potatoes

from the little curtain at the bottom of the 

potting bag that allows you to do that,

and enjoyed them with mint and new peas...

only a few of which twine themselves

around a pretty metal tower.

It makes me feel that I have a garden again!

Oh happy days, when I had a gardener too......

These days I find my happiness tending the flowers

(which sometimes requires that I roam the garden

with my machete, filling barrels of yard waste with extra greenery

I get so carried away at planting time)!!!

Here is a little smattering of these vibrant colours....

and the early morning smoke that drifts down from the

wildfires in the Cariboo/ Chilcotin

where my dear children keep vigil

and wait for the smoke and the danger to go away.