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Café Notes – Garden

Things grown, tended, and gathered
Raindrops on lilacs

Raindrops on lilacs

Today is welcome rain, soaking the lawns and flower beds, and clearing the wildfire smoky skies.

Backyard Bliss

In the good ole summertime, there’s nothing quite like relaxing in your backyard and garden.

Fairy Garden 2

Fairy Garden 2

Last November, I made a fairy garden—a place for my imagination to sit and dream up new plot lines, or mull over old plot lines, or try to forget the plot lines completely.

Fairy Garden 1

Fairy Garden 1

We didn’t have a lot of snow over the winter months, but lots of gray days. To amuse myself, I made a fairy garden. These are the plants I used.

My balcony garden

My balcony garden

I bought nasturtiums, geraniums, lobelia, pansies, violas, petunias, dusty miller, zinnias and a Gerbera daisy.

Brave little buds

Brave little buds

Calgary is at 51 degrees North with an elevation of 1,048 m (3,438 ft) so spring does not come early. Not usually.