day 832 - liberty belles

these young women were promoting westjet's promo fares to new york and were just too happy to pose for everyone who cared to snap their photos.

day 831 - a peek inside the secret garden

through a gate of rose blooms.

day 830 - under a canopy of baby pink roses

the scent of lovely rose blooms permeates my secret garden.

day 829 - white irises

white irises mystify me more than any other flower of any colour.

day 828 - girls just want to have fun

this is a sneak shot i took of the two girls who were hamming it up alternately with their iphone and camera. i have volunteered to take their pics together before this, and they still wanted to have more pictures. so i took a snap when i saw the playful one really hamming it up.

day 827 - a dress for ivy jean

i just fell in love with this dress and i know ivy jean would really look gorgeous in it.

day 826 - hi-lilly, hi-lo!

another flower today, why not?

day 825 - inside the iris flower

delicate but my mind is thinking of something obscene!

day 824 - delicate pink iris

this belongs to one of the assistants at the office. yesterday, the flower in the middle was just a tightly closed bud. it opened up overnight and today she has this beautiful natural arrangement a la ikebana! beautiful!

day 823 - red poppy

red poppy found on the side of the street popping out from the wire fence of a home garden.

day 822 - how many can you count?

this momma duck has 10. where's poppa duck? cavorting with another poppa out in the middle of the pond. i wonder if they're both poppas of these brood? hmmm...maybe we should ask mrs. momma.

day 821 - what is this?

i need to find out the name of this flower. it is quite engaging.

day 820 - oak leaves

shot while cooling off underneath the oak tree at the delasalle oaklands.

day 819 n- yellow iris

on my way to the oaklands school to see the old mansion

day 818 - qu'est-ce que c'est?

an unknown plant found at the park.

day 817 - up against the wall

a purple iris on the side of the street.

day 816 - uncanny

display at the 'celebrity wax museum' in niagara falls. life-size and life-like.

day 815 - the rainbow bridge

at niagara falls with visiting friends. this is after we got off the maid of the mist tour.

day 814 - good morning from niagara falls

the view from last night changes to this this morning. less traffic, more falls! (two hours before the unfortunate incident where a man jumped over the protective railing forcing city officials to close the viewing section to the tourists so rescuers can do their job of rescuing some stupid idiot. arrest the stupid, i say, regardless of what injuries he sustained.

day 813 - niagara falls in the late evening

traffic easing out on the avenue near the falls, at almost 12 midnight.

day 812 - chives bursting

so many chive flowers to choose from. i wonder if they are the edible chives? must investigate.

day 811 - sunrise on the danforth

good morning! good morning! good morning!

day 810 - fringes

a gathering of fringed leaves, flowers and weeds.

day 809 - clear water revival

such clear water on the lake. which it should be!

day 808 - obscene lily

while i do love the unusual colour of this lily, i think i shot it at such a bad angle i don't like the look of the pistil and its stigma. really looks like a...a...well, as i said, something obscene! and i mean it in the context of the flower's visual.

day 807 - fancy pansy

love the colours of this pansy flower, especially the veins. i think it is quite lovely.

day 806 - another one

what's with these butterflies? i can't catch a picture of them unless they're on the pavement, obviously dead!

day 805 - roots

but no beer, just lake ontario.

day 804 - baby powder blue

the jag i chanced upon yesterday at lunch. sleek and dapper. i'll drive it, if i'm forced to.

day 803 - emmo bike

obviously, 'emmo' is a trade name. funny. and this is an e-bike. which could only mean it is powered by electricity. or by the internet. hahahaha!

day 802 - muscle flexer

bicycles, motorcycles, taxis. the harley is the choice!

day 801 - white tulips after the rain

pure white tulips found on a large planter outside a building on yonge street. i think white flowers is all the rage this season. i like it!

day 800 - white daffodil

i must say, i've never seen a pure white daffodil until i saw this. i think it's tres cool!

day 799 - bikes for big boys

the sunday regulars at leonard's diner. five more behind me, won't fit in the lens.

day 798 - boats at sundown

the boats have arrived. beautiful day today and hopefully tomorrow because i'm coming back here again to enjoy the view.

day 797 - butterfly

love sucks! figuratively and in this case, literally.

day 796 - enjoy while ye can!

miniature lily of the valley flowers found growing on the side of garden.

day 795 - a double dose of daisy

i love these tiny daisies, their colours, textures, etc. i should get a packet of seeds and try and grow them. or maybe i shouldn't.

day 794 - what can i say?

i'm a sucker for moon shots. did i tell you the story about....

day 793 - right in the middle of the road

looking east on the danforth - yeah, i'm a renegade!

day 792 - happy birthday, paul!

paul is 50, the sign says. so 50 beer mug posters were planted on his front lawn. i do not know who paul is, but happy birthday paul. (just passed by this house on my way to breakfast :-)

day 791 - pink hyacinth

they come in pink, purple, white, blue, green even.

day 790 - in vivid colours

camera setting is screwed up, it's taking pictures in bigger files and this much colours. tee-hee! i might enjoy it for quite a bit, that is until i find out how to correct the damn settings.

day 789 - shy and pink

this flower looks kind of shy, isn't it?

day 788 - bamboo

i might have posted this in here before. it's just that the light of the morning sun gave this a whole new look, including the whitewashed colour.

day 787 - droplets

droplets on very tiny succulents.

day 786 - inside the magnolia flower

some revelations are unexpected no matter how much you expect them.

day 785 - unfurl

what one notices when you're not looking: an unfurling young fern.

day 784 - what is this thing!

very clever, indeed. a tree branch that grew around this wire fence, they cut the tree and left this part of it because they would have to destroy the wire fence if they had to do that. at a glance it looks like a dead animal, like a large rat or something.

day 783 - a dead butterfly

found this on the pavement today. poor butterfly!