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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.

Pretty Purple Lilacs

I got out into the yard for a couple moments this afternoon to take some pictures of the delicate yard flowers before the rain. There wasn't a lot of rain, but its comin!

Day 2

These flowers have cool names

But I can't remember them.

Yesterday I was able to get my setup working the way that I think that it should, however I may have had the old setup running at the same time.

Today is the real test, and you your patience, another flower.

Day 1

What a web we weave

I mentioned the other day on mastodon that I was starting to have issues with windows, again. There was just a couple of things that I am using an old desktop for automation, mostly publishing this site and a few backups with robocopy. I love robocopy.

However, because MS wants …