Sundays on the seawall

Though it can be hard (especially last week when plants, pots, & plans exceeded available space), I try to remind myself of the advantages of a  very small  balcony garden. Here's one: it allows time for long, meandering walks because you don't have to rake leaves.

And here are some moments from the the past three Sunday seawall walks when I looked, wondered and enjoyed.

This arrangement made me wonder: did nature create it or some passer-by with a compulsion to tidy the unruly masses of leaves on the path?

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Orange beautiful*

*Post title inspired by -- well, pretty much copied from but with all credit given to  -- this gorgeous site & blog.

"In like a lion, out like a lamb" (and vice versa) is the well-known saying applied to March's weather. I'm trying to think of an equivalent to describe last month. If you read drafts of this post I published accidentally (oops), you'll know I tried marmalade cats and Bengal tigers. The first of October was sunny and warm and I recall purring contentedly in the kitchen while roasting eggplants; the 30th and 31st included every kind of weather: bold, strong, and untamed, if not quite ferocious at the end. But perhaps colour is the most accurate, and for me, memorable way to describe October in and October out: in with tasty reds & aubergines and out with glowing oranges.

Saturday's destination

The Hope Slough (in Chilliwack, B.C.), fish habitat restoration area
photographed on the bridge, October 30th, 2010

And now you know why I was so impatient to leave the city last Saturday morning.

Today I've also written about  A Sense of Place on the Hedge Society.

after the April showers

Buttery-lemon hyacinths in our condominium's courtyard garden. A daily dose of spring colour.

Glowing Sedge

View from my balcony door at 4 pm today. You glow, girl. (I'm sure this flamboyant orange-haired beauty of a sedge is female.)