Archive for June, 2010

Butchart Gardens

While we were in Victoria a couple of weeks ago we went to Butchart Gardens.  Even though the roses weren’t in bloom yet, and it was kind of rainy, everything was still so gorgeous! I loved taking photos of all the flowers and Anna even had a good time too.  She loves flowers so she was in heaven.  Here are a couple of collages so I don’t post a zillion photos.  Click on each for a larger version.  Click here for the full album of photos.

Posted on June 17th, 2010 1:34pm by Eli in Photos, Travel ~ No Comments

The Garden is Growing

Here’s a garden update..  I never did finish weeding.  My excuse is that I am not getting enough plants to fill the space so it’s just going to fill up with weeds again.  It’s a lazy excuse, I know…but that’s basically why I haven’t finished it.  I did, however, get some plants in the area that I weeded, with the help of my mom!  Here are some photos:

Here’s a photo of the whole area.  The plants from left to right are: 2 strawberry plants, 2 different tomato plants, a raspberry plant…in front of the raspberry plant are 2 squash plants.  In front of the strawberry plants is a little pumpkin plant that I don’t think will survive.  I think something has been eating the leaves.  There was a cucumber plant to the left of the squash plants but it got trampled by little feet…

The strawberry plants:

..and we even have little strawberries sprouting up already!

The tomato plants.  One produces normal size tomatoes and the other produces cherry tomatoes…but I can’t remember which is which.

Raspberry plant:

Squash plants…looks like something may be eating these leaves:

Then we also have a little area against the back of our house that has a bunch of flowers, thanks to the previous owners.  There are two rose bushes and they’re just starting to bloom.  There are also some other flowers that I’m not sure of.

The rose bushes:

A rose and a couple of buds:

Some of the other flowers:

Anna was a big help helping me water:

More garden updates when the fruits/veggies start growing!

Posted on June 10th, 2010 10:41am by Eli in Anna, Photos ~ No Comments

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I'm a relatively boring person...wife to Dan, mom to Anna and two little wiener dogs. Photography is my hobby, though maybe someday I'll make some money off of it. Skiing is a passion, when I can do it. Maybe at some point I'll put something a little more witty and interesting here.