Saturday, 14 March 2009

Nifty Thrifty Dry Goods booth at SewExpo in Puyallup...this place is great! I first saw this vendor when I went to Houston several years ago. She has a wonderful selection of buttons, trims, ribbons, beads and many more things. Check out her website at http://www.niftythriftydrygoods.com/ She sets all her various items together in colour groupings.Finding a nice bright yellow is sometimes difficult, but not here.
Back at home again, this field of crocuses is actually someone's front yard! They have naturalized over the years and make a very pretty show. I took these pictures on March 7th.
This white pair with purple streaks of purple are almost translucent.
Here is another view of the lawn covered by the crocuses.
The next day it started snowing in the afternoon. We don't usually get much snow in March but it continued to fall for several hours.
The next morning it started falling first thing in the morning, by afternoon the sun was out and the snow was gone from most sidewalks and roads. These snowdrops looked lovely surrounded by snow.
Down on the quay more crocuses were poking out their heads.
This lone daffodil was proudly showing its pretty head.
I found some mini-irises blooming.
The snow was quickly melting in the late afternoon sun.
Even some of the rhododendron's were starting to put forward their flowers.
This trio of crocuses caught my eye coming out of a bit of snow.
This pink flowering winter viburnum is almost in full blossom now.

Saturday, 14 February 2009

Happy Valentine's day, Spring is starting to show it's face! Crocuses are starting to push up their heads through the winter beds of soil.
These purple ones are starting to make a good show.
I love the blue berries on this plant.
These pink blossoms are so delicate.
The snowdrops are multiplying in this bed, soon they will all be in full blossom.

Monday, 9 February 2009

Today is my birthday! 2009 is my birth date year! Last year I turned the age of the year I was born, how interesting these two years fell together. I took the picture of the yellow witch hazel yesterday, it is one of my favourite shots of this plant.
February has more flowering trees bursting forth with colour and sunny blue skies.
This planting of snowdrops were just peeking out last week and now they are starting to bloom! So much for February blahs..I think the month is a great one.

Sunday, 1 February 2009

Snowdrops are starting to bloom again, I took this picture in my friend's garden last Sunday. Saturday I walked down again to see and found this delightful little bloom. It is almost bigger than the stem that is holding it.
Next it is a few more blossoms peeking up, keeping the white pansy company.
Last year I noticed this yellow witch hazel not far from the orange one I like to photograph.
It almost looks alien with the thin colourful leaves.
The orange one almost has a yellow glow to its outer edges.
The new shoots are slowly starting to push their way off the main stems.
We've had some lovely sunny weekends, although today it turned to rain, with some wet snow. Let's wait and see what February will bring this year.

Saturday, 17 January 2009

It has been very foggy for the past few days, we are having a temperature inversion...that means it it colder low down in the city trapping the fog and warmer at higher elevations with sunny skies. A friend of mine took these pictures from a tower in Metrotown in Burnaby and shared them with me. This view is looking north towards the north shore mountains.
Looking even more west of the city.
Looking north, but more to the east.
Even a bit more east.
Perhaps a bit more east and south this time.
I'm guessing this is looking south towards the Fraser River.
Looking south and towards the west again.
Down by the Fraser River where I live it has been very dark and grey all day with the fog horns from various boats sounding off periodically during the day.

Saturday, 3 January 2009

The snow keeps coming down...we drove over to the west side of Vancouver today and this was one of the main residential streets along the way.The trees are huge along west 10th driving towards the University of British Columbia.
We took a side street to head back home, this was one of the residential streets running parallel to our route some of the cars were not going anywhere soon.
The next block over was even worse, at least you can drive safely along my own street in New Westminster.
This is part of a park along west 16th. It would have been fun to go for a walk and get some more pictures but parking was not easy to obtain.
We managed to drive back and forth without any problems, the snow is still coming down. It is supposed to be raining again and we will be back to our usual rainy winter weather.

Thursday, 1 January 2009

Happy New Year 2009! May the year bring all things that are needed and wanted to all that you know and love...may it find you all in good health and happy with friends and family.