….. one of my husband’s favourite flowers
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Sunday Trees – 143
….being up at the cottage keeps me from posting on Sunday
For more Sunday Trees check out Becca Givens sitehttp://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/sunday-trees-143/
New Flower (Aug. 12, 2014) – Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Share Your World – Week 32
…..more great questions from Cee at Share Your World
Do you prefer ketchup or mustard?
I like both but over the years I’ve grown to like mustard more than I did as a child. Now I prefer mustard on my meats and ketchup on my eggs, fries, grilled cheese and mac and cheese.
If someone made a movie of your life would it be a drama, a comedy, a romantic-comedy, action film, or science fiction?
This is a tough question. It certainly wouldn’t be an action or science fiction film. It would have to be a combination of the first three genres. The romantic comedy would be my teenage years and my relationship with my husband. The comedy portion would include the years raising my children and my years teaching children. Finally the drama would occur when dealing with the deaths of parents, friends and colleagues and the break-ups and disappointments suffered by our children and the divorces of friends and family. Luckily there is more comedy than drama in my life.
If you could be given any gift what would it be?
The gifts I would most cherish would be peace of mind and happiness.
For potlucks or parties do you cook it yourself, buy from a grocery store, or pay for catering?
This depends on the day and the time of year. If the party is on a week night and I’m working I will purchase something special from a deli or take away from a restaurant. I will cook something myself if the party is on the weekend or in the summer when I’m not working.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful for time together with my daughters and their significant others. G and her husband had dinner with us last Friday and A and her partner came by the house on Saturday and helped us clean out the garage. Cleaning the garage and taking everything to the city transfer station was a huge job and I can’t thank J and her family enough for all their hard work.
Later on Saturday G and I drove up to the cottage together and spent a couple of days enjoying each other’s company and the fantastic weather.
I’m also grateful to D at the cottage for helping me dig a new outhouse hole.
This week I’m looking forward to visiting my aunt again, helping my friend A organize her basement and garage some more and seeing my friends G and L. I’m also looking forward to working on more art projects from my on-line summer camp.
It’s also our 39th wedding anniversary this Saturday and I’m looking forward to anything that my husband and I will do to celebrate.
New Flower (Aug. 11, 2014) – Pink Variegated Phlox
New Flower (Aug. 9) – Kniphofia (Green Jade)
Weekly Photo Challenge – Texture
….when I saw this challenge I knew I had to participate
Weekly Photo Challenge – texture
Walking along the beach last week I was also inspired by the textures of the sand and rocks.
New Flower (Aug. 8, 2014) – Passion Flower
Share Your World – Week 31
….being at the cottage makes it difficult to keep up with some of these weekly challenges
If you had your own talk show, who would your first three guests be? (guest can be dead, alive, famous or someone you just know)
There’s always one question that stumps me or makes me hesitate as to how I will answer. This is the one. After giving this some thought I think my three guests would be John F. Kennedy, Meryl Streep and Ray Cattell (my favourite contemporary artist and my girlfriend’s father).
What can you always be found with?
I always have my camera or iPhone with me.
What is the most fun thing you did in school?
It was probably in art class or home economics. I loved those two subjects in elementary school. In high school, however, the one thing that really stands out for me was our trip to Expo 67 in Montreal. I think it was a three day trip and it was probably my first experience away from home with a school group on an overnight trip.

Photo courtesy of : http://www.westland.net/expo67/aerial.jpg
What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
Writing a blog is something that I do that most of my friends and colleagues don’t do. Whenever I mention that I have a blog a lot of people are intrigued but very few of them actually try to create their own.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I’m grateful for the company that I have at my cottage. My neighbours are always so generous when it comes to sharing meals. This week my girlfriend’s adult son made me a lovely breakfast of blueberry pancakes and scrambled eggs and later in the day I invited him to my place and we shared BBQ chicken, grilled zucchini and sweet potatoes, steamed broad beans from my daughter’s garden and fresh strawberries and cheese for dessert.
Later this week I’m looking forward to spending time with a couple of friends from the city at the cottage. One daughter is coming over for dinner on Friday and on Saturday the other daughter is coming to the house with her brother-in-law to help us clean out the garage and take all the garbage to the city dump.
For more Share Your World posts check out Cee’s site.












