Pink Rhododendrons

 

Purdon 2021

Showy Ladyslippers ( Cypripedium reginae )

Stores reopen in Ontario, line ups

Stores selling non-essentials reopened on Friday, but only at 15% capacity.

Solar Eclipse June 10, 2021

Just before 6.00 am 

London Ontario, four people dead in anti Muslim attack

Memorial for London, Ontario attack

AvidLondonerK2001, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

 I know the street where the attack that killed four of a Muslim family in London (Ontario) last Sunday happened - driven it often for work and to visit friends who live about 5 minutes away from the crime scene - even knew the mosque, which is the oldest in Ontario. And I lived down the street from the scene of the Quebec City attack, and across the street from the Polytechnique Montréal shootings some years before both happened. 

Haskap, Peonies, Rhododendron

White peonies

Haskap, one of many names like blue honeysuckle, sweetberry honeysuckle, fly honeysuckle, blue fly honeysuckle, blue-berried honeysuckle, haskap, or the honeyberry, my dessert. 

 Rhododendron

First purple passionflower of year