Wordless Wednesday

That must be tasty food that those people are holding up for the birds! Can you imagine standing outside and having that many birds trying to get food out of your hand? Kind of neat, but maybe a little frightening at the same time, I think.

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Last week Chris and I took our dog to one of our cities (Toronto) beautiful parks for a nice long walk outdoors. Our dog had a ball running around in the off leash areas and uhm … rolling in mud! and we had a nice time watching her, talking to another dog owner (who’s dog played with Midnight during our hike) and simply enjoying our surroundings.

The trees are only just starting to change color here in Toronto, so I mainly focused on talking pictures of wild flowers as we walked.

I came across these flowers that I think look quite bit like my perennial Asters, but I’m really not sure what kind of flowers they are:

They’re pretty aren’t they?

I also came across a small tree (maybe 10 feet tall?) that had these lovely black berry clusters growing among the leaves. I’ve seen this before but I cannot remember what this tree is called. Any ideas?

The rich black berries are solid looking with a shiny outer skin. The berries are probably just a little bigger than your baby finger nail .. maybe the size of your ring fingers nail?

The clusters of berries looked very pretty in the tree among the leaves. They’re probably not edible though.

I have more pictures from our walk through Taylor creek park on Tricia’s Musings and My World if you’d like to see more flowers and some sumac’s turning red.

Wordless Wednesday

A wild flower that I came across while on a walk with my husband and dog in Toronto’s Taylor Creek Park.

Do you see what’s above the flower? It’s a snail. A pest I’m sure, but it looked pretty beside the flower.

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My perennial New York Asters are in full bloom and they are putting on a spectacular display as usual.

The bee’s can’t help but visit the small purple flowers to collect as much pollen as they can either.

I actually took this photo last year around this time. The weather’s been cool and the skies have been cloudy all week - not ideal picture taking conditions. Hopefully today or tomorrow I can get out in the garden and take a lot of pictures. The roses are pretty much all in bloom again, probably the last blooms of the season for many … so I’ve got to get those pictures soon!

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Wordless Wednesday

LOL have you ever seen one bird chasing another? Probably lots of times, right? I’ll bet that you never saw one catch the other by it’s tail before though!

BTW I didn’t take this picture, wish I knew who did as it’s a fantastic shot, isn’t it?