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Jan 29 2011

Boy it's hard to capture come things on the camera. Today is foggier than this shows, and it's also heavily "misting" outside.

"My" trees.At least they're on my property, but the city has control. They have little city tags on them, "Touch these trees and we'll break your arms." All are pretty bad. The cut-out one is the best looking, the one nearest the house has almost no foliage, and it has a split trunk besides. And the middle is just not that nice. But I love what it gives the garden--a certain je ne sais quoi, despite crummy "soil", drinking all the moisture, and roots that go on forever.

 Then had to document my Jan garden. Don't even know what these are.

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Jan 27 2011

My over-the-back-fence neighbours, all lit up.

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Jan 26 2011

So this is the real 26th, the birds were a substitute for the 25th.

When I took the picture I was looking at the moss, and the "mini-moguls". When I downloaded it, the first things I saw were leaves which I hadn't even seen, never mind paid notice to. I love them--looks like I meant to take pics of leaves in moss.

Shows how lovely moss can be.

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Jan 26 2011


Again a glitch in days. Yesterday I took some garden pics when I got home from my marathon night shift/class day. In particular a pic of new growth in my Autumn Joy sedums. Next day--today--when I got home with Deer lake pics, I downloaded the DL pics and forgot to download yesterday's garden pics, and then cleverly formatted the disk. NUTS.

Anyway, aren't these guys a lot of fun? Don't know what they are...

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Jan 24 2011

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Jan 23 2011

Actually, this is a cheat. I thought of taking this pic when I got home, evening 23rd, but then immediately forgot about it. Remembered the next day, so since I didn't take a pic on 23rd, this is the substitute. Needless to say, I'm not going to be legalistic about getting a photo posted for every day.

I'm really glad the right side of the work shows.

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Jan 21 2011

Poor Jack gets terribly abandoned. I had to turn the light on this am before leaving for work so I'd remember to feed him when I got home. And almost forgot.

He and I have never bonded, and when he seemed to be the chief culprit in the disappearing tankmates mystery, I had no qualms about exiling him to the den aquarium. Then turned out he wasn't the guilty party. (Nor was his buddy, the other jack, the next to suffer exile. Apparently it was the pictus cat that jumped out of the big tank, because when he was also banished, the disappearings stopped.) In any case I never did find him amiable. Unlike his original namesake, who unfortunately expired at about age 9. Years.

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Jan 20 2011

First sleeve. Colour is a bit off--I find it very difficult to get highly saturated colours right. Red is the worst. This one is actually less purple, and deeper. I tried "fixing" it in Windows Live Photo Gallery, but couldn't make it do what I wanted. Will Windows never get it right? Or is it just me?

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Jan 19 2011
This is reflection in the water--Deer Lake of course. Jenny Lu would be proud of me. Except that I haven't started my Mandarin...

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Jan 18 2011

Viburnum. Can't remember the variety or cultivar.








Making notes on our findings.

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Jan 17 2011 (missed a day again)

Brenda finally got her Christmas present, and look! I left ends unfinished!! And not one, but two. :-(

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Jan 15 2011

Isn't this attractive? My next week's school assignment for Master Gardener.

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Jan 14 2011

Stepped out of the car and was greeted by this divine smell. Sarcococca humilis. The flowers on it are about 5mm. The whole "inflorescence" (I'm showing off my new-found knowledge) is only about 1 cm.

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Jan 13 2011

:-(

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Jan 12 2011

Started snowing last night, about 4-5" by this am. Only shovelled one car's width; boy, that was HEAVY snow. For a moment I was envious of people who have driveways that are too steep to use.