Azalea

From my garden . Every year without fail, my gorgeous azalea blooms!

Prairie warbler

Je veux (I want)

 

Yellow Roses.

Yellow Roses
Dolly Parton

Hello you said the day we met
Handing me a yellow rose
You asked me out
And to your surprise
And to mine I said I'd go
I thought it so romantic
And I found you sweet and bold
Though we'd only met
I still said yes
To a single yellow rose

And for years to come
You were the one
To sleep with me at night
To laugh and talk
And share my thoughts
And hold me when I'd cry
And on every occasion
And for no good reason to
A big bouquet or a single yellow rose
Was sent from you

Chorus:

Yellow roses
The color of sunshine
You loved me at one time
Why did you have to go
Yellow roses
Are you sending your new love
My bright yellow rose buds
I still love you so

I never see a yellow rose
That I didn't think of you
It's still my favorite flower
Though the yellow's turned to blue
The day you left my teardrops fell
Upon your farewell not
You said goodbye like you said hello
With a single yellow rose

Chorus:

Yellow roses
The color of sunshine
You loved me at one time
Why did you have to go
Yellow roses
Are you sending your new love
My bright yellow rose buds
Oh I still love you so

Yellow roses
The color of sunshine
You loved me at one time
Why did you have to go
Sweet yellow roses
Are you sending your new love
My bright yellow rose buds
I still love you so 


Risa Song Lyrics Archive

Roosters and hearts

The power of words.

Walking the Ottawa River's Britannia beach

photos Ziniania's.

Eye candy friday.

from my garden.

Spring collage.

Ziniania's collage.

It was raining AGAIN, I had my cup of coffee next to me and I felt like a kid , cutting and pasting . Very soothing ...dreaming away .........

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day.

A spring walk around my neighbourhood.

A beaver swimming.

Trillium, the official flower of the province of Ontario.

                  It has been a cool and wet spring but nature is amazing !!!

Ithaka by C.Cavafy (Sean Connery &Vangelis Papathanasiou.)

An Island house and a poem.

All My Life's a Circle
(source: "Rise Up Singing", Peter Blood and Annie Patterson, 1992.)
by Harry Chapin

All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown

The moon rolls through the night time

Till the day break comes around

All my life's a circle, but I can't tell you why

The seasons spinning round again

The years keep rolling by.

It seems like I've been here before, I can't remember when

But I got this funny feeling

That we'll all be together again

There's no straight lines that make up my life

And all my roads have bends

There's no clear cut beginnings, and so far no dead ends.

I've found you a thousand times, I guess you've done the same

But then we'll lose each other

It's just like children's games

As I see you here again, the thought runs through my mind

Our friendships like a circle,

Let's go round one more time.

Eye candy friday.

Aegina Island,Greece. Picture taken by my sister.

blooming service berry.

A woman and a poem.

The Moment
by Margaret Atwood

The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,

is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.

No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.

Happy Mother's day.

 My Mother Kept A Garden

My Mother kept a garden,
a garden of the heart,
She planted all the good things
that gave my life it's start.
She turned me to the sunshine
and encouraged me to dream,
Fostering and nurturing
the seeds of self-esteem...
And when the winds and rain came,
she protected me enough-
But not too much because she knew
I'd need to stand up strong and tough.
Her constant good example
always taught me right from wrong-
Markers for my pathway
that will last a lifetime long.
I am my Mother's garden.
I am her legacy-
And I hope today she feels the love
reflected back from me.

Author Unknown

Women are persons( October 18, 1929)

These statues are erected on the grounds of the Parliament Hill,Ottawa.

The famous five.

THE FAMOUS FIVE: WHO THEY WERE (from left to right on the picture, source: National Archives of Canada)
Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951), novelist, journalist, suffragette and temperance worker. She was a member of the Alberta legislature, the only woman on the Dominion War Council, and the first woman on the CBC Board of Governors.
Irene Parlby (1868-1965), suffragette and politician. She was elected president of the women's branch of the United Farmers of Alberta in 1916 and became a member of the Alberta legislature in 1921. She was still a member of Parliament at the time of the Persons Case.
Emily G. Murphy (1868-1933), instigator of the Persons Case, writer, and first woman magistrate in the British Empire. She pioneered married women's rights, was National President of the Canadian Women's Press Club 1913-1920, vice-president of the National Council of Women and first president of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada.
Henrietta Muir Edwards, (1849-1931), journalist, suffragist and organizer, fought for equal rights for wives, mothers' allowances and women's rights. She started the Working Girls' Association in Montreal in 1875, a forerunner of the YWCA. Later, while living in Alberta, she compiled two works on Alberta and federal laws affecting women and children.
Louise McKinney (1868-1931), politician and temperance campaigner. She was president of the Dominion Women's Christian Union and elected to the Alberta legislature in 1917 as representative of the non-partisan league.

http://www.parliamenthill.gc.ca/histoire-history/terrains-grounds/statues-eng.html

Photos : Ziniania's

Black and white doodle

Lemon Poppyseed Bundt Cake

recipe taken from :

http://mennonitegirlscancook.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-04-25T04%3A00%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7

it was very good, my family really enjoyed it !

My favorite birds.

chickadee

tufted titmouse

cardinal

blue jay

The last 2 pictures are a robin and a goldfinch *technical problem :)*
(All images are from the web)