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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Christmas Ice Cream

This entire post is just for my sister who lives in Alberta and cannot get any of this icecream where she shops. She loves this stuff and Island Farms who makes it. These blends only come out at Christmas. Thank goodness for that or I would be eating it all year round and thats not a good thing.
The Gingerbread has big chunks of soft chewy gingerbread cookie pieces in a gingerbread flavoured icecream. Delicious!!


The Peppermint Candy has chunks of peppermint candies swirled through velvetty vanilla icecream. I wait all year for this stuff and so does my sister, but I am the one who gets it.
How evil am I!!!





Sunday, November 16, 2008

Today's Flowers

Here are a few more flowers from the Nursery I went to last weekend for the Art Show. I don't know what most of them are so if you do know can you let me know. I just thought they were delicate and pretty. These blossoms just caught my eye as it seems like a promise of things to come.

This I do know, Flowering Kale. I love the creamy ivory white colour accented with the greens.

Berries and flowers!!

Click on Today's Flowers to see other posts of flowers. Lots of beautiful things to feast your eyes on!!



Friday, November 14, 2008

Christmas Decorations

Not your average Christmas decorations!! I went to a Christmas fair and these are some of the beautiful decorations that were on display.
Beaded Butterfly. Don't know what kind of bird this is depicting, but its very handsome!!

Porcillin statue. (I can't spell tonight!)

Blinged Christmas ball.


Pearl beaded encrusted heart.

Beaded Christmas Ball.


Hand done beaded Christmas ball.


Hummingbird.


Jolly old Saint Nick!!!

Christmas Dove.

Its seems very early only being the middle of November to be seeing Christmas displays but everywhere you go there they are. I am not really into the feeling of Christmas this year. Maybe in a bit it will hit me, who knows. But the decorations sure are pretty!!









Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Photography Meme

I am taking Country Girl up on her Photography meme tag. This is what I found in my fourth photo file, fourth picture.
I remember coming out to go to work one morning and found this note written by my hubby the night before. It's no wonder I don't like to clean my car, where else could he write me notes like this. Quahehstamaha means "You dance in my heart" I am challenging anyone else who comes to see this to do the same and leave me a message and I will come and check out your picture too!!!
Thanks Country Girl!!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Today's Flowers

I went to an Art Show in our local Nursery yesterday and took a lot of pictures of flowers there. I only took a few pictures on the sly of some of the paintings there and in the end got tagged for taking pictures there without permission. Ooopps!!
Anyways I got quite a few good flower pictures, here are a few of them:
This is Evergreen Clematis. It has a wonderful scent, like a little whiff of heaven on earth. These are Crysanthumums.

I am not sure what this is but if you look closely at the stamen in the middle you can see a drop of water. Must of taken a hundred of just that but could not hold still long enough it seems to get a good one of the water droplet. The flower is okay though.


A winter Pansy. I love the faces on pansies!!
Check out the other entries to Today's Flowers as well. Looking at flowers when it is miserable outside brings spring indoors.



Monday, November 3, 2008

Front Door Back Door Meme

Its monsoon season again here and all the work they have done on the back park amounts to us having a lake in the back, complete with a waterfall in the left corner that is trying to drain water from the upper field. Its not supposed to have any water on the upper field, the drainage tanks they installed under the grass is supposed to handle all that but obviously its not working very well. This next image is to the right of the lake, and it is looking like a bit of a lake as well. Really under that water is a river or supposed to be a river, lined with river rock that diverts the water from the upper section down to the lake aka water retention pond. Its a little overworked and over full right here.
The wavy red chainlink fence is just temporary I hope. That is my property line anyways.

You can see how deep this section is, so you can imagine how much rain has come down and is coming down.
The picture above and the picture below is out the front door. You can see the road is flooded as well. Look at the level of water on the front car tire. In the 8 years we have lived here we have never had flooding like that. And we have had worse rains than what is falling from the heavens here. I can't help but think the work they did on the park has something to do with it.



Check out my previous front door back door meme to see the differences.