Seasons in the Valley + Furry Gnome's Adventures

The other group of plants in our garden that indicate late summer is here are the brown-eyed susans and all their relatives.  We have seve...

There are lots of flowers in the garden that indicate the changing seasons too.  In our garden, two dominant groups, the coneflowers and the...

I've always believed there were at least 8 seasons, and now I'm thinking there are 12.  At almost any time of the year you can find ...

A few close-ups of flowers in the garden taken recently, all August bloomers. One of our favourite day lilies, 'Tigger', bloom...

Today's orchard is a small orchard belonging to a friend, so we get to go and pick apples ourselves every fall if we want.  He stopped b...

Apples are a big crop in the Beaver Valley; in fact Grey County is the #1 producer of apples in Ontario.  Especially in the lower valley nea...

Down one of the less-used sideroads in the valley is an old narrow one-lane iron frame bridge over the Beaver River, and someone decorates i...