During our visit in Saint John, New Brunswick I was able to take advantage of a beautiful sunny day (the drive there and back were exceptionally cloudy and rainy). I walked up the road from our friends’ house in the outskirts of Saint John and took photos of the neighbours’ houses and gardens.
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Happy Canada Day!
Happy 147th Birthday Canada! July 1st is a holiday in Canada, and one of the few times that we are allowed to set off fireworks. We will be spending the day driving back to Toronto from New York City, so we don‘t have any fancy foods or DIY projects to celebrate. Instead, our mom got […]
Pretty Window Box Ideas
Travelling around New England, I saw so many houses with lovely shuttered windows…and window boxes! Since we were there in springtime, the boxes were full of beautiful flowers. Here are some photos of what I found around Rhode Island, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Boston: Here are some lovely white boxes with ornate brackets.
Our Mother’s Garden
Take a peek at our mother’s garden! Her flowers are clearly the most lush on the street, perhaps in the neighbourhood! Hyacinths are by far my favourite spring flower, so colourful and fragrant. I wasn’t so sure about these parrot tulips at first, but they are striking once they are fully opened!
The Secret Garden
A babbling garden stream, from Better Homes and Gardens. Since I was about 12 years old, I’ve read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden every spring. At the time, we were living in Saudi Arabia, where there was no spring or autumn. All we had was a blazing hot, dry summer, and then a winter that was […]