spring flowers

Spring flowers, scillas growing in the grass just down the road: I love them. I remember vast swathes covering the side of Mount Royal in Montreal. They are just little flowers, but a multitude of them is a wonderful sight. This next picture comes from Sussex, New Brunswick where I lived last spring. My grandfather, who taught me to garden, called them "squills".

spring house

I passed this house on a walk. Click the picture to see the Easter decorations. I was taking a break and out enjoying the unseasonable warm and sunny weather. Spring is surely something to celebrate.

dandelion

The first dandelion and the spring peepers are singing after dark, so spring is definitely here. Besides the other day I passed a dead skunk on the road, and that is a sure sign

our Lady's lily.

We bought this lily to celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation on March 25. It is always good to honour the divine feminine. When I returned to the house a week later the lily was still blooming, in fact it was better than before. So here's to Our Lady in whatever form she takes. And today being Easter - He is risen. He is risen, indeed.

high noon

I walked by the sundial in the garden at exactly noon, and the sundial was pretty accurate. It was in my grandfather's garden. As a child I was always checking the time and was disappointed when it was a cloudy day. It says the usual stuff like "Tempus fugit." Click it to enlarge it and see if you can read the dismal message around the edge.

horse barn

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Old barn behind the mansion at Mount Uniacke, taken last Saturday: this would have been the stable, I think. It's not dissimilar to the one that I built on Farmville.

tangled garden

We stopped by the Tangled Garden last Saturday. The garden was closed for the winter, but the shop, which serves products from the garden was open. This is their window from the inside, and this is their website: http://www.tangledgarden.ns.ca/garden.htm