day 844 - a daisy

or what's left of it....

day 843 - a chair is still a chair

even when there's no one sitting there,
but a chair is not a house
and a house is not a home
when there's no one there to hold you tight...

day 842 - my car

not! it's only nice to look at, probably great to drive, but i prefer to drive a van like a nissan quest. vrooooom!

day 841 - hibiscus bud

this is in one of the planters we passed by on our walk along the danforth.

day 840 - whew!

that's how hot it was this afternoon!

day 839 - i love purple!

the bug seemed to convey: i'd rather die here than anywhere else because i love purple!

day 838 - yellow harley

you wouldn't have believed it, but it was a beautiful sight to see.

day 837 - by the lakeside

a zoom on the sailboats plying the lake this afternoon. it was a beautiful day for sailing.

day 836 - the green leaves of summer

i don't know what they are but they are beautiful to look at.

day 835 - lotus pond

finally, a lotus pond!

day 834 - welcome

continuing with the garden tour today, the first house i went to had this statue/vase of exquisite orchids in the entrance way. wow!

day 833 - what do you see?

i went on a tour of rich people's gardens. this is the walk-through to the back garden of 23 avondale. a visitor asked me, after i took a lot of shots of this door, what did i see that i liked so much about this door. i replied that the door is actually ordinary. but the windows flanking it made it an interesting visual - the arched top of frames, the vines creeping on the wall, the texture of the wall all combined to make the entrance/doorway interesting. she examined the doorway and after a few seconds, nodded her head and said that she didn't 'see' although she was looking at it. the lady then proceeded to follow me everywhere i went to see what else interested me.

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!