Merry Christmas Everyone.

Hello All my blog Post friends. I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I will be posting every once in a while so that I can keep up to whats happening. Hope to talk to you all soon. 

Making bread without buying yeast

This is for those that like to make their own bread but don’t know how to make Sour Dough Bread which is very simple.

http://youtu.be/YgJYSOwWlvU

I’ve made some Sour Dough Bread but not like the video I’m showing you right now. I will be trying this method today as I have some sour dough starter working right now. I will be making Sourdough Barley Bread and Sourdough Rye Bread.

I will let you know how I make out. Here is a video on how to make the starter.

http://youtu.be/pmLmpJhumSM

I will let you know how I make out and show you the results.

Amaryllis Update

I’ve taken a couple of photos of the Amaryllis bloom opening. These blooms don’t get as tall outside as they would if they were inside. They will grow a lot taller and towards the light when they are inside in the winter. Since the Amaryllis comes from South Africa they tend to bloom in Late December or January. I guess this one decided that December came early.

                    

                                     

Had a Surprise Today

My goodness I had a surprise today when I went to water the garden and turn my compost. I didn’t think I would have any Amaryllis blooms this summer as it is getting late and the Amaryllis will be going for a sleep in late September. Most of the blooms will happen around Christmas or late January. I will take more photos as the blooms get fuller.

                               

                      

            I wonder if there will be anymore before September.

Short visit to Wabamun Lake

Yesterday my friend Russ and I went for a short ride (so I thought), to Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton. I really didn’t know where we were going. First we stopped to look at some old cars.

       

    Russ likes old cars, I was shocked at the prices that were posted.

       

    We then went on to Wabamun Lake. The day was kind of dreary with a little rain here and there (showers). It was about a 45 minute trip to the lake. It was a warm day, we had to put the Air conditioning on. When we got there we noticed that there were not very many boaters on the lake, so we got the cameras out and headed for the dock. There were a few Canada Geese grazing at the edge of the lake and a few boaters getting ready to head home. I think we were there for maybe half an hour and then we headed home ourselves. Here are a few photos of the lake.

        

      

      

      

   

Then we went home. This little trip killed a few hours and got me out of the house. I hope everyone has a wonderful week.

Bye the way these were straight out of the camera.

My flowers in my little back yard

Hello everyone, I’m sure that you were wondering where I was all this time, well I was here. Between all the storms and the really hot weather we are having, I was working very slowly on my back yard. I have a few photos today for you to look at today.

      

  

                           

   

  I have a new Rhubarb plant that I planted in spring it has grown like crazy, I will harvest some of the stems for a pie in a few days ( Rhubarb & Cherry ).

My Clematis is doing very well, I believe it may be at least 25 years old or even older.

I also have another color of Gerbera Daisies but it is in between blooms right now.

All of my Amaryllis are outside this summer gaining some energy, But I really have to thin out the bunch, so if anyone in Edmonton wants a free Amaryllis plant then leave me a message  at  hhr52@shaw.ca     Only Edmonton and area residents need apply for free Amaryllis plants. If I can’t get ride of a lot of these plants by September, then they will go into my compost bin.

        

My Little Garden

Hello everyone, I told one of my followers (Vera), that I would post some photos of my little garden. It is being worked on right now, to get it to the planting stage. Last year my yard was re landscaped or regraded ( I didn’t think they did a good job). They also put in a tall fence. They planted grass on about half of my yard, I asked them to remove it last year as I don’t want to cut grass every week (re: buy a lawn mower for 2.5 to 3 meters of grass, no thanks). I kept all of my concrete sidewalk blocks so I had to put back 2 and a half rows of blocks in the last 2 weeks (my brother helped me). I still have a few edging blocks to install, but that won’t  take long. Next week I will get some organic fertilizer or compost, to get the garden up to growing standard. I will also ad some peat moss. My yard is very small, only about 12 x 15 feet. It will keep me busy. 

   

 

 

  Well now you know what my little garden looks like. The perennials are coming up and also some weeds that I need to remove. but otherwise the garden is starting to look like a garden, rather than a construction site. By for now.

My First Attempt at Video

Hi everyone, I am posting my first video, the actual video is not very good and it is shaky. My first attempt at movie making is not that bad. So here is my first video and movie that I tried just for you all. Let me know what you think. Good or Bad. I need some good constructive criticism.

More photos of Greenland Garden Center

I processed more photos of the Garden Center so you may have a good idea of what they have to sell. I am just getting over a cold that has gotten a hold of me (I hate colds). So here are a few more photos that I have taken for you to see.

    

  

                             

    

  

              Hope you like the photos. Let me know what you think.

Garden Center

Hello everyone, Today was a beautiful day here in Edmonton Canada, the Temperature was a balmy 7*C and the snow was melting like crazy. Spring is not here yet but I’m not complaining. I figured that it was a good time to take some photos, so I grabbed my cameras and drove off to the Garden Center. I had a coffee and a piece of Apple Pie, it was very tasty. This year the display was not as large as the ones I saw in previous years. It was still very nice, but I was not able to get very many angles of it. The coffee tables were very close and I did not want to disturb anyone. I did get a few very nice photos with the new Camera, I also fiddled with the the movie feature of the new camera. Got 1 very shaky video. Will have to play with it a lot more. I found out that you can’t look through the view finder while taking video, but have to look at the view screen when doing videos.  Here are a few photos for you to look at. I hope you like them.

  

    

         For you Cat Lovers, this is the Greenhouse Cat, pretty young lady she is.

   

    

   

There you have it, I will show you more photos next time as I have to do some more processing.

It’s that time of Year

when My Amaryllis are starting to send out flower pods. I have about 6 plants that are going to bloom in the next week or two. I also want to take a trip to the green houses to see what is happening in the display areas of the Garden centers. Can’t wait till the snow is gone and I can get into the garden. I also think that I will be doing some camping this year as I now have a vehicle that I can sleep in. Will keep you informed as to how I am improving with my new hips, who knows I may be doing some dancing later this year. My old Dance partner is bugging me already, so she can dance with me. I guess I will have to get some practice and lessons going some I can remember how to move again (dance moves that is). I’ll put up some of my old Amaryllis photos here untill I get some new ones. I hope you enjoy. 

             

         

Happy New Year 2014

Happy New Year to all my fallowers and to all that read my blog.

Yesterday afternoon, I finnished my Physio treatments and now I am free to do the exercises that I must do to strengthen my hip muscles so that I can walk properly and without a cane. So now I will have to ride my stationary bike at least every second day and dream of summer days as I am doing it, there is so much snow outside and cold that it is difficult to walk anywhere. Can’t wait for spring to come around. Will have to top up the bird feeders this afternoon so that the birds can cellebrate the new year as well. I went to my friend Russ’s place to bring in the New Year with friends. It was a nice little get together, and I got home at 3 a.m. this morning. I slept in till noon, my oh my what a lazy day. Hope everyone had a wonderful slide into the New Year. In the mean time here is a photo, not sure which one I will pick but I hope you like it.

     

Bad weather today

The weather is quite bad today so I figured I will stay in and show you what I had gotten a couple or three weeks ago. I was figuring out how to upgrade to a new camera and found I could get one for no cash money, but through Airmiles points. I was looking about 8 months ago at this camera but didn’t have enough points so I looked again one month ago and found that I had enough and went ahead and got it. I’ve been reading up on how it works and playing with it to use the video feature. I have taken a photo of it to let you see what it looks. Hope everyone is keeping warm. Once the storm is over I will take some photos with the new camera, then post them.

       

For those of you that want to know what model this is, it is a Canon T3 Camera. Wish I could afford the camera that Adrian has, but this was all I could afford and that will have to do. All my old lenses will work on this camera and that’s why I got it. Oh, I still have my Canon 10D and will keep it, it’s still a very good camera.

Winter Wonderland

Hello everyone, I’m back. Just thought I would surprise everyone and post today. We were hit with a rain storm yesterday and woke up to a winter wonderland of snow and ice. I took a couple of photos just to show you hpw much it snowed over night. It is getting to the time of year here in Edmonton that this snow could stay until spring. The winf is cold today so I am staying in until this afternoon. Then I will go out and shovel some snow and de-ice my SUV. May get some groceries later this afternoon. Well, I going to keep this short today and show you a couple of photos of our snow.

          

          

           Well that’s all for today. Bye for now.

Disaster in Alberta

Hello everyone, I live in the province of Alberta, Canada in the city of Edmonton. Alberta is quite a big province. Southern Alberta has been stricken with flooding. In Calgary almost 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes and , most of the downtown area is under water. There are many more communities that are flooding. I will post a link so you can see what is happening. Here is the link: http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=952529  or

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=952721

There are several videos in this link. I will also post a photo to give you an idea of what is happening.

        

       Here are more photos of the flooding: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/06/21/alberta-flooding-calgary-canmore-high-water.html

Iris from my Garden

Hello everyone, it’s been a while since I posted a photo here on my blog. My Irises are blooming and they are so beautiful, I thought I would show you an image of my Grey/Blue Iris, some may say it is purple but it is really not. I have played with this image and I thought I would also give you a couple of variations of the same image. I did an image without filters and 2 with filters. Let me know how each one is in your opinion.

Today we got a emergency warning that a tornado is in the area and may hit our city (I hope not, been there done that). So I thought I would pop into the garden and get some images of the Iris. So the light is a little dull but the main thing there is not heavy shadow contrast. I like soft light. Anyway here are the images.

               

             

             

                Let me know if you like it and give me the reasons why.

                Thank you everyone and be safe out there, mother

                 nature is not always nice.

Just another Amaryllis baby blooming

                                   

      

Hello Everyone

      I just found an old photo of myself, this is a photo of a team of Archers just after winning a Team Archery Competition, guess what, I’m one of the competitors. I was in my 20’s in this photos, do you think you can pick me out? And no there is no prize if you pick right. I just thought it would be interesting to see if I have changed or not. I know I have changed as I got older, but it would be interesting to see how much I have changed, so try to pic me out.

              

My White Amaryllis

Hello everyone, I have at long last taken a few photos of my White Amaryllis. I have tried for a while to take the photos, but I have friends and relatives that have wanted some of my time, ah lets face it, I procrastinated, I finally got the photos done before to many of the blooms withered away. Two stalks of the blooms I could not use because of withering. I had to put the flowers in a large vase that I have and guess what, the vase is white.  The photos still look quite good so I will show you right now. It took me the whole day to set up for a few photos. I am feeling my hip right now, I need to eat and take some meds. Take care and I hope you like the Photos.