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Shout out to Mimi and Meg for providing the links to all these amazing digital mags for our summer reading!

I personally prefer the real thing but digital magazines can be really enjoyable too!

What do you prefer?

If you haven't done it yet check out the Sweet Paul Magazine Summer edition you will find link on right!

I can't say enough about this magazine I just love it! The photos and the original ideas, the beautiful and delicious recipes.

A couple of highlights are the home made soda, home made tomato soup, the natural dyes "HOW TO" and finally my favorite story "New Life for Old Cans".

I keep my old cans just for projects like this;

But Sweet Paul always has MORE original exciting ideas that I never would have thought of! I will never look at an old can the same way again. He EVEN made a cake stand with an old can!

Sweet Paul you're so sweet.

Leann Grimes FREE Music Download

Happy Summer!

Flamenco Dancer at San Diego Botanical Garden

" Art art I want you, art you make it pretty hard not to, and my heart is trying hard here to follow you but I can't always tell if I ought to "

I first heard Tanya Davis on the Vinyl Cafe a podcast that I download every week that plays on CBC radio of which I am an avid fan of (Stuart forgive my grammatical errors if I have any and you end up looking at my blog one day) I've posted the link before.

This video is a real treat after I first heard this song on the Vinyl Cafe I found myself singing the chorus over and over: " Art art I want you, art you make it pretty hard not to, and my heart is trying hard here to follow you but I can't always tell if I ought to " and the video is done by another Canadian artist and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman I dedicate it to all the wonderful artists I have recently discovered thanks to blogging but most specifically to Nathalie at The World of Natalie Kelsey.

Peonies

Peonies don't last that long but they smell so nice and look so pretty dotted around my home...

Erin did it again...

House of Turquoise blogger Erin came back from vacation with several posts of a dream house. This is from "DAY TWO"

I love this entrance and I am also crazy about this recycled glass kitchen counter top!

And yes we carry this product in Quebec!! Photo credits to Hiya Papaya!

My Garden the beginning...

This is my garden! I decided to shape it in an "S" shape along the fence so that it would be easy to work in and be pretty at the same time. In general the rows have 3 plants in a row and some of the shorter, shrubbier plants like lettuce and cabbage are along the front as well as the marigolds to keep pests away.

It's not that impressive yet (especially with my photography skills) but I am patiently waiting for ALL my plants to grow.

I haven't bought lettuce or green onion or any spinach or swiss chard in a couple of weeks now.

Time to harvest the lettuce again but the cucumber, zucchini, cabbage, beets, red onions, peppers, peas, tomatoes, herbs, raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb and blackberries need more time.

Look at my green onions dwarfing the zinnia (behind the marigold) I planted.

My peas are flowering!

 

So are my peppers!

...and the zucchini (when I went this morning that flower was open).

This is the fruit section and I hope my scary bird topiary that my daughter got me at Pier 1 will stop the birds from raiding it.

 Mmmmmmmmm strawberries soon! The sweetest are in the fall during the second harvest.

I just planted this rhubarb a couple of weeks ago and it has already tripled in size. I can't wait until the zinnias are bigger. The marigolds smell so good! We have a cute little brown toad that comes to the garden at night to eat mosquitoes (Thank you Toad!)

I love this

I don't know what this is but I love it! Do you know what it is?

I want a pool like this

My garden is done.

 Now what I need is a corner to relax...drop me off here!!!