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| The new Japanese Maple looks fiery in the afternoon sun. |
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| Brickwork continues around the front door. |
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| Henrik is building supports for the peas. I planted too many again :) |
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| The laburnum is in full bloom. Hundreds if not thousands of bumble bees have found the trees. |
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| Poppies are about to bloom |
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| The shiny polished toadmobile! |
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| Polishing in action... |
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| Proud Toad! |
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| Brickwork continues up the wall. |
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| Our newest acquisition, a gift from Hazel and Allan. |
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| Camas Lily in the rain |
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| The octagon end of the house through the trees. |
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| This year the Camas has won centre stage. The cold weather means that the grass has not become taller than the blooms and we have a fabulous purple show. |
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| Slowly but surely our house is getting covered in bricks. |
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| It is not surprizing that the mason wanted 35K to do this job. |
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| Henrik spent a good portion of Sunday shaping lumpy bricks on a tile saw. This will make the job of laying the bricks much easier, and hopefully faster too. |
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| Henrik has been working on the window finishing all weekend. There isn't a square corner or a flat wall to be found anywhere in the dormer. |
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| The windows look fabulous with fir and cherry trim. |
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| The corner window provided a multi-angle challenge. |
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| Turned the corner to start on the next section of wall. |
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| The first section of wall is complete. All that is required now is a cleaning with lemon juice and a scrub with a wire brush. |
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| The new magnolia has several pinky white flowers. |
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| It has been given some deer deterrent and some stakes. |
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| Just 6 feet tall right now, but with some good nourishment and lots of water hopefully it will reach it's full size in 10 - 15 years |
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| A mass of shooting stars. |
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| The potatoes have started to show their leaves. |
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| Shooting stars in all their pink/purple glory! Thousands of them are in bloom now and the Camas aren't far behind. |
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| Xeranthemum in the greenhouse. |
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| Mason bees have been put out now that the plum and cherry trees are in bloom. Hopefully in a couple of days they will emerge and start pollinating at the perfect time for the arrival of the apple blossoms. |
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| Tulips in the morning sunshine. |
