Flowery Friday 19

Where was I? That week disappeared quickly. I guess that's what happens when you're having fun.

A bit of a flowery hodgepodge, starting on July 3 and going to July 20.

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Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Film

Linda

Newfoundland

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago

Or rather, the oldest not a flower photo in the 90 day folder

Flower

Landscape

Dino related

Those fleeting thoughts and bees

Did you ever have a thought to look something up, read a particular thing, or write that perfect phrase, but you want to finish the current thought, and then that other thought has gone away, unloved, un-acted upon? Or walk into a room to get something and forget what you were going to get? There's so many distractions now, or I seem to be more easily distracted. Not sure which.

I enjoy watching the bees flit from flower to flower, reminding me of my thoughts some days. Buzzing around in a seemingly random pattern. It makes me wonder how I actually got anything done at at work.

Watching bees around the mint or lambs ears (or whatever they are) is soothing, especially when there isn't much other noise. I wonder what stories they tell each other when they get back to the hive. We make a point of planting flowers the bees will like, and trying to leave foliage over the winter just in case there's a little critter trying to make it through.

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Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Film

Linda

Newfoundland

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago

Flower

Landscape

Dino related

First selfie in a long time.

Flowery Friday 18

Up to now I've been presenting the flower photos in order taken, with the exception of whatever flowers make it into the of the day feature. That will probably continue, just because.

The other day I was looking over the 'not blogged in 90 days' folder. There's currently 284 photos in it, and while I can't really do any searches on it to find just flowers, there are well over 100 flower photos. I suppose some of them could well be considered a photo of a bee instead of a flower, and fair enough. Some are more an overall garden photo than an actual flower photo, and I'll let the pedants argue about it. 

Given I probably won't be doing flowery Friday while in New Brunswick, I've got enough flower photos to be doing this till Halloween, maybe longer. There could be a flowery Friday 25 this year if I spread things out, or take more flower photos. After all, the roses are still blooming, and one lily is opening up.

(Except, in late breaking news this morning there was frost on our neighbour's garage roof. I don't think any of it reached the garden, but it's the first sign of winter coming.)

I've mentioned before that I don't trust the Blogger readership statistics. Whatever it's counting has really taken off starting maybe 4 months ago. I don't seriously believe I've got a whole bunch of new readers. If I actually do, welcome, glad to see you, and don't be afraid to comment. However, I suspect it's bots crawling all over the blog. I mean, a huge spike in readership overnight? Not gonna buy that, unless a whole flock of night owls has discovered my blog. I hope I'm not somehow acting as an AI training environment. Maybe I should start putting in nonsense paragraphs talking about out of focus photos. Hmmm. My readers are smart, they'd be in on the joke, right?

As a digression we went to the Cirque show Echos last night. As always, I was amazed at the skill and daring of the performers. I can't imagine how much work must have gone into making that huge cube work. And yet, if there was a story thread holding it all together, beyond the girl and her dog watching the shows, I missed it. Maybe there's some symbolism to the boxes and paper that I missed.

But anyways, if you're not a bot, you're here for the flowers. And no, I'm not going to inflict you with the "I'm not a robot" test.

We are starting with July 3 going to the 6th.

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Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Film

Linda

Newfoundland

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago

What passes for a public beach in Calgary, aside from Sikome pond.

Flower

Landscape

Dino related

Celina, in partial denial.