I love the country! Driving along the backroads, highways & byways of Central Ontario makes me so very grateful I live where I do. Summertime in the fields affords views of lazy haystacks and meandering meadows spotted with cows, horses and sheep. If someone were to ask me 'what do you think heaven looks like?', …
Just like Old Blue Eyes crooned, it's been a good year for roses.
I love this country with my heart & soul. Land of lakes, rivers, moose and the Cambrian Shield. Born in Toronto but moved to the sticks when I was 10 years old. I'm forever proud to live and call rural Canada my home. I'm also blessed to work with some incredible First Nation people who …
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For me, nothing in the garden is more beautiful then the peony. Maybe it's the memory of my mother's garden in days gone by, but peonies hold a special, central place in my heart, mind and eye when I scan the late spring, early summer garden. Peonies don't last very long, but the flowers do …
It's been so dry of late, so watering in the evenings has been an ongoing, daily ritual. The early Summer garden is taking shape with the pinks/purples/lavenders/peach hues on fantastic display.
So much beauty lies just at the margins of our highways and bi-ways, what look like simple wildflowers are truly elaborate patches and fields of bustling - and buzzing - life. I stopped a few times along our area roadways to capture the smaller worlds of wonder, going about life at their own beautiful, steady …
It may not make the cover of magazines, but my little garden brings me ever so much joy and contentment. I've learned over the years that the garden will conform to its own rules and order, and that, indeed, life finds a way .
Photos taken this past week driving north on our country road, Highway 400 & Highway 124.
The Northern Herper 
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