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Alliums are out

There are a bunch of alliums that are blooming, and I took this picture last week just before a big rain in case they didn't like the rain.

I'm a little beind in the pictures, but this will give me a bit of a head start in the 365 project …

Bugs and fake ladybirds

I decided to name my 365 project, the year of flowers. We have so many different flowers growing in the yard that I want to make sure that I can share them.

Of course there are too many to spam at one time, so they will be stretched throughout the …

Pretty flowers emerging

So many flowers already this year, and more are starting to emerge every day.

The rhododendrons are coming out and they will be full soon.

purple rhododendron flowers emerging from there buds

Day 6

Dandelions like the moon

A perfect sphere of dandelion seeds. I took a picture of it just before the rain started

And then I turned around and there was a bunch of them.

A bunch of dandelions in seed.

Day 5

It's Finally Raining

It finally started rain this weekend and we needed it.

The municipality (and the province) re-opened the parks, the major fire in Tantallon is contained and people are starting to be allowed back at their home.

Wandering Around town

We headed out Sunday planning to visit the park a see some ducks, however I completely forgot that all the parks and trails were closed because of the wildfires and tinder dry forest. Why did I forget? Well it was raining and everything was wet. It took a little convincing …