Friday, June 21, 2019

A Serendipitous Garden Find

After my physio in Owen Sound this morning, we picked up our usual healthy lunch of burgers, fries, onion rings and root beer, and headed down to the bay to find nicer spot to sit and eat it than the parking lot of A&W.  (At least it was a small fries, onion rings and pop!)  We ended up in the parking lot of the Bayshore Centre, looking out over the blue waters of the sound.

We had a beautiful garden at our former house, as you'll know if you've followed this blog for a few years,  We moved to get away from the upkeep, but what we found here gives me a garden to visit where I can get pictures.

Right outside the car was an enticing trail, and it was even paved.  It actually runs out of town and becomes the Grey County CP Rail Trail, but we didn't go that far because we got distracted by the garden we found.

We headed down the trail and suddenly found ourselves beside a nice garden - the garden had paved pathways too!  What a nice bit of serendipity!  So we spent a fair while enjoying the garden.

Here are those nice glowing poppies, on fire in the sun.

 There were several beautiful Iris.

 Slightly more purple than blue.

 We actually did not know these pretty blue bells, but they were very pretty.

The Lady's Mantle weren't in bloom yet, but their leaves catch and hold rain drops beautifully.

Bachelor Buttons - I love the details of the flowers.   A few more flowers tomorrow.  You can be sure we'll be going back here!


15 comments:

  1. You opened up making me really hungry.

    (I'm glad it's almost dinner time :)

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  2. Very pretty flowers!

    It's been a few years since I've had onion rings.

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  3. That's certainly a garden worth a return visit. That doesn't sound like a "heart healthy" lunch, but the taste buds must have been ecstatic -- mine would pass on the root beer in favor of plain old water.

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  4. What a beautiful garden. I'd love to take a walk through it!!

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  5. Such pretty flowers, the colours are gorgeous.

    All the best Jan

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  6. What a great find...I would be wanting to visit this place quite often. That Lady's Mantle really has pretty leaves.

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  7. What a wonderful find! I'll bet we'll be seeing pictures from all the seasons, so I'm glad we're starting on the first day of summer! :-)

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  8. A bit of garden-therapy to follow the physio - sounds an ideal arrangement.

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  9. Beautiful colours, burnt orange, Blue bell blues,and more.

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  10. Hello, beautiful garden and flowers. Wishing you a happy day and weekend.

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  11. i think you picked the perfect meal, you only live once and a burger with fries is awesome eating!! the garden is gorgeous, lots of purple which happens to be my favorite color!!!

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  12. I know that great feeling inside when one unexpectantly stumbles upon some of Mother Natures wonderful works of art and colors. Kinda like finding a treasure. Yes that A&W lunch sounds right up my alley but as I am getting wider the alley is getting narrower. Nice for you to get up close to those flowers.

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  13. A nice collection of flower photos. The flowers all look familiar except the bluebell ones.

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  15. Beautiful! I bet you will visit here often:)

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