garden therapy » Trout Lake http://gardentherapy.ca Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:32:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Beautiful Snowy Day at the Dog Park http://gardentherapy.ca/snowy-day-dog-park/ http://gardentherapy.ca/snowy-day-dog-park/#comments Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:25:35 +0000 Stevie http://gardentherapy.ca/?p=2468

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]]> http://gardentherapy.ca/snowy-day-dog-park/feed/ 3 Heirloom Tomatoes http://gardentherapy.ca/heirloom-tomatoes/ http://gardentherapy.ca/heirloom-tomatoes/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:27:34 +0000 Stevie http://gardentherapy.ca/?p=2221 Today I went to Tomato Fest at the Trout Lake Farmer’s Market to buy my heirloom tomato ‘seeds’ for next year.   The vendors sell tomatoes, not tomato seeds in packets, but really,  a tomato is just a delicious and colourful packet filled with of lots and lots of seeds, right?  And heirlooms have grown true seed to fruit year after year, so what better way to decide what tomatoes you want in your garden the next year: buy some heirlooms tomatoes, scoop out the seeds, and chow down.  If it’s a good tomato – grow more!  If it sucks, then just toss the seeds in the compost. 

 

 

These are the ones I’ll be testing and saving over the next few days to see which will join my most favourite of all heirlooms (some of those favs snuck into the photo even though they came from my garden: Green Zebra, Sweetheart Grape and Siletz).  All this for $8.50.  Hell yeah!

 

 

It seems crazy to BUY more tomatoes when this is the giant bowl I am trying to cope with today from my home garden (this is a really, really big bowl):

 

 

Ah, well, I’m sure I’ll find SOMETHING to do with them all….om nom nom nom nom..

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]]> http://gardentherapy.ca/heirloom-tomatoes/feed/ 20 Testing Out a New Camera at the Park… http://gardentherapy.ca/new-cam/ http://gardentherapy.ca/new-cam/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:28:08 +0000 Stevie http://gardentherapy.ca/?p=704 I bought a digital point & shoot today and tested it out at the park.  So far I’m not very happy with it.  It feels like I’m handcuffed, wearing a girdle and stuck in traffic: it’s slow and there is too much restriction.  We’ll see how it goes tomorrow as I’m going to take it to the Reifel Bird Sanctuary.  It would be nice to have something a little smaller to carry around.  But who knows, maybe I’m just a DSLR kinda gal. 
Late Afternoon at Trout Lake in Vancouver

Late Afternoon at Trout Lake in Vancouver

I’d love to get any recommendations on what cameras people are using out there for all the amazing shots of gardens and food I see you taking.  If you shoot with something you like I’d be overjoyed if you’d leave me a comment and let me know.

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]]> http://gardentherapy.ca/new-cam/feed/ 4 Trout Lake Dog Park http://gardentherapy.ca/trout-lake-dog-park/ http://gardentherapy.ca/trout-lake-dog-park/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:26:06 +0000 Stevie http://gardentherapy.ca/?p=386 Trout Lake (Custom)

The Dog Park - Trout Lake

How lucky am I to have this amazing lake and off-leash dog park right in the city?  It’s not just the mountains and ocean that are beautiful here.

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