spring's sprung

Oh, finishing the school year was kinda distracting, but it's over, i'm back and so on. This week, I promise to share a coconut-y recipe and some photos of the lentil loaf i'm working on with some classmates for a Canada-wide PULSE competition!
I was feeling disinterested due to some setbacks at the garden but I'm definitely back in the growing ZONE, feeling really excited about planning my plot and nurturing tiny plantlets into nourishing and delicious edibles! More on that to come, too.

Now, I leave you with a selection of recent snaps.

A seemingly male tomato


Not sure what these are, some kind of little succulent growing in near Woodbine & Gerrard in a really arid, prairie like spot! If you know what they are, please tell me.


I really, really wanted to just lie down under these lovely blossoms, but as evidenced by the powerlines also overhead, it wasn't a a great spot for lying down.


Here's my favourite little weirdo, licking her chops in excitement over a stick being thrown in the water. I save that manner of lip-licking for much more delicious treats, but hey, she only has a pea brain. She really makes me laugh!


Sweet dreams!

Hanging onto the theme by a thread!

This post is oh so tenuously connected to thoughts of food: this past Sunday (truly a Mythological Sundae, a small taste of spring in February!), Graham and I took Ivy on a very long walk up to the Wychwood Barns so I could check out Seedy Sunday. Gardening events are food related, right? What I choose to plant in the early season will forecast some harvest time writings for sure!
I am broke and already in possession of far too many seeds so I limited myself to a packet of a particularly prolific bush bean, a packet of dinosaur kale seeds and a couple other little things. Most of my time at Seedy Sunday was spent at the Perth-Dupont Community Garden table, talking about gardening with folks shuffling by in the waves of crowds in attendance.
Before going into the Barns to the event, we brought Ivy to the Wychwood off-leash area and let her hang out with some buddies. This brings me to the real inspiration for this post. Here's a really great little clip of a pug and golden retriever wrestling! You can even catch a glimpse of the Ivermonster checkin' out the tussle.