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Mar 20 2011
The Phaelanopsis again. Backlit from the bright morning sun.

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Mar 19 2011
Have to record a lot of pics today--busy day for photogenic stuff.

First is what I'm calling first day of Spring garden. Viburnum, Sambuca nigra, iris reticulata, and an amazing crocus that I don't remember having before. Did I plant some new crocuses last Fall?

And then came the real full moon, apparently 30,000 km closer to earth than in the past two decades, and 15% larger, 30x brighter. (How do they define brightness?)

Had to also tak a pic of Grouse Mountain from Royal Oak.
(Really don't  love Blogspot's formatting!!)

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Mar 18 2011.
This silk arrived yesterday--actually arrived a few days ago, but didn't see the ticket. Always wonder why most items are left at the door, but some are taken back to the PO. Turns out it's registered mail. In this case from India. 750 m.

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Mar 17 2011
Thought this was the full moon. Sure looks like a full moon. Click on it to maximize.

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 mar 16 2011
Bought these yesterday at Home Depot. Amazingly cheap--one wonders what the hourly pay was for the growers!

Kept the white/green one and gave the speckled one to Beth. Matched her scarf!

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Mar 15 2011
New primulas in Eileen's teacups.

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 Mar 14 2011
Neville  St. Cherry trees about to bloom. And can you believe these weeping whatevers! I think there are 4 or 5 of them but couldn't get them all at my angle--there's a slight rise on the property.

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Mar 13 2011
Finished all pieces except the scarf. Front bands done, front pieces match!! Glory!

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Mar 12 2011.
Notice any themes in the almost 1/4year of pic- blogging? We have fish, garden, Deer Lake, more garden, knitting, Deer Lake, fish, more knitting, more garden, more Deer Lake, more fish. Anything else?

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Mar 11 2011. Evidence. This is Mum's mum, and like exists! Jude's: one has the tiniest sproutlet, the other nothing yet, but I'm hopeful.

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Mar 10, 2011
Bit boring pic, this is the green heathery (WOTA, Tidepool Heather) Japanese pattern vest. Japanese Vest Link

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Mar 9 2011
Looking down from front steps at crocuses beside sarcococca, then same crocuses from different angle.

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Mar 8 2011
Flower buds on Akebia.

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Mar 7 2011
This was in the mail when I got home, so after I'd done several rows of Coventry, tried out this cotton. Of course then spent ages looking for just th right pattern to knit with it.

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Mar 4 2011. So sorry, out of order :-). Mary B told me on her way in that the mountains looked amazing, so I looked behind me on the way home, and indeed, she was right. By the time I got home and out again, the clouds were beginning to creep in, and the sun wasn't sparkling up the snow as it had been 20 min before. But still pretty stunning!

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Mar 6 2011
I think this is an anemone.

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Mar  5 2011.  Snowdrops at Irmin St., snowdrops at Deer Lake.

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mar 4 2011
LOVE these iris reticulata. The burgundy isn't quite so burgundy, and the blue--what blue would you call that?--isn't quite so vivid.

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 Mar 3 2011
All the leaves of this "semi-evergreen" are off, but flowers coming out. Yeah!

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Mar 2 2011
Back at my favourite Deer Lake. WINDY!

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Feb 27, 2011.
Next morning. Have to shovel again of course, and much heavier today.

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Feb 26 2011.
Got home from work and set out to shovel, still snowing all the while. Very pleasant job, not too cold, and the snow was as light as I've ever noticed--really easy to shovel. Left the ridges for photogenic effect.

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Feb 24 2011
Nuts. Second front at least 16 rows too long.

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Feb 23 2011
Deer Lake, of course.

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Feb 22 2011
The snow is still on the ground, so I thought these were frozen drops. But no.

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Feb 21 2011.
One of the latest snowfalls in my experience in Vancouver. Didn't we have snow one April here?

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Feb 20 2011

Burnaby Lake Park. Not nearly as "nice" (couldn't I come up with a more descriptive word??) as DLP. But at least they also have my herons...

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Feb 19 2011
Oops, forgot to add this. Can't stick to only one pic per day, especially a day like today. Anyway, helleborus in Deer Lake Park.

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Feb 19 2011.
Hamamelis mollis (don't forget to italicize genus and species epithet...) in Deer Lake Park, up by the rhodos. Oh my, I want this so much, but not this colour--I want either "Diana" or maybe "orange beauty" or "Jelena".

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 Feb 12 2011
Yuck! This is the condition of my back shed. Not a beautiful object at the best of times, and clearly this isn't the best of times. And then the roof...

Feb 13 2011
I love these guys. Almost everyone is in this pic. Only the Chinese Algae Eater, the pictus, and the pleco are hiding.

 Feb 14 2011
Second time this single segment Christmas cactus is trying to bloom. It won't, and it would be a lot happier if I gave it a real home. But I feel there should be some actual growth on it before I give it more room.

Feb 15 2011
This picture is doctored consider- ably. I just couldn't get a colour or exposure I was happy with, so I played until I got something fun. Backyard helleborus. And then the dicentra. Aren't these wild? Almost look animal/fish-like. Primitive. Tropical.

Feb 16 2011
Pouring rain most of the day (pray tell, what else but rain would it be pouring??), then this around 5 pm.