December 16, 2011 - Posted by Margaret Cesar - 0 Comments
Have you planted your bulbs yet? Or are they still sitting in boxes in the shed?
I have to admit that a lot of my bulbs remain decidedly above ground, and the time has come to get things sorted. Admittedly I have to deal with a huge number of bulbs (many, many thousands) for clients. Although thankfully, I no longer have to plant them all myself. But that is probably not a very good excuse, is it?
I planted some last weekend in the semi-darkness, which was jolly. There is no great skill in bulb planting, just a lot of rather tedious labour and bending down.
The general rule is to plant the bulb about twice its own depth and a good two bulb widths apart.
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December 10, 2011 - Posted by Margaret Cesar - 0 Comments
A long time ago, in a universe far, far away I confess I was the President of a local Liberal Party Provincial Association in the Province of Ontario. I was also on the provincial board of directors for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. This made me a minor bit player on the stage, but I was young, with enthusiasm and a growing contact-list. A person of potential as the line goes.
Agriculture was in a state of flux and the family farm was under heavy siege. It was the time of the serious decline of the small family farm to be replaced by the family mega-farm with one farm absorbing its neighbors in order to survive.
As a backroom person-in-training, I set out with a few other farm types in the party to walk a simply policy up the political agenda.
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December 10, 2011 - Posted by Corey Broyles - 0 Comments
For geography buffs, the details of a globe are mesmerizing. For soccer or baseball enthusiasts, the same feeling is transferred on an autographed ball from their favorite team. Round objects ignite our senses since their rotation allows us to see every angle. Thats why, in the case of the Woolball woven sphere light by ilanel Design Studio, design aficionados drool at its well-spun sight.
Custom, or made-to-order Woolball lights, are woven with attention to direction for a slight differentiation from one segment to the next. Their bold presence comes from their large size, as well as the way in which light flows through the miniscule spaces between the threads.
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December 8, 2011 - Posted by Thomas Pierre - 0 Comments
Technically my title is completely incorrect! We did have snow in January and February but this is the first snowfall of the coming winter season. And technically this isn’t even officially winter yet. I’m just breaking all the rules for this post! I’m going wild!
Anyway…yesterday we had a light snowfall. It was the kind of snow that was so wet that when contact was made with the ground it quickly melted into regular old H20. What snow coverage we had on the grassy areas didn’t last long as the air temps were too warm to maintain the frozen precipitation. Despite its brevity the snow was pretty!
Snow on pot of pak choy.
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