Back in June, I posted about the Springbank Snow Countess. http://lilacgate.blogspot.com/2009/06/skywatch-friday.html
Last week, I visited her again. I had hoped there would be snow on her, but it was a green Christmas, so I had to be content with a photo of her hiding among the bare branches, and against the cloudy sky.
Following a different path, I discovered this bench hidden by stone walls and rose bushes.
I will have to go back in the summer to see if it really is an enchanted place.
We arrived home to discover that the storm which drove north from Texas for Christmas Day
had been an ice storm in the Ottawa area. We only had heavy rain at my parents'.
Yesterday was sunny and mild, so the dogs and I spent the better part of the morning wandering the fields and taking photographs.
The cattails are especially fascinating, as you can still see the softness, although it is encased in ice.
I still refused to permit Annie to bring the deer's leg home with her.
While we are strolling down Memory Lane,
let's stop and smell the zucchini flowers.
The bees are doing it, after all!
Thanks to the seed catalogue,
these flowers have a name now.
Not an easy one to pronounce,
but something more specific than pink flowers. I have a lot of pink flowers in my archives!
Before the snow came in earnest,
I was looking at the pansies in the garden across the road.
They will bloom again in the spring.
In August, I found these flowers, but had no idea what they were.
The seed catalogue arrived this past week, and they are buckwheat, Polygonum orientale, or the old fashioned Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate.
I am going to have to get myself a packet of the seeds, for planting in the spring!
I think the lower flower looks like a parot's beak, don't you?
I love the cheery pink at this time of year,
when outside is all shades of grey and white.
A squirrel ran across the front steps just after the last snow, leaving its tracks behind.
