It was at this moment that I discovered how much honey bees love asters. Summer has ended and the bees are preparing for a long winter, they are bringing in the last pollen and making the last honey that has to last them until next spring when they can, once again, leave the hive in search of pollen and nectar. This is serious business.
When I noticed these spider webs outside of St. Philip's Anglican Church, I thought they were a Halloween decoration. But they are actual spider webs, I think made more visible by moisture on the filaments. There they hang where a spider made them, ponderous and visible.
It was June 14th, sunny and mild, and I was walking across the grounds at St. Philip's Anglican Church.
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| I like this addition, added this year, if I had the room maybe I'd build one of these circular gardens for herbs |
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| Not the most aesthetic addition but "A" for effort and originality! |
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| A pleasant place to sit and rest |
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| They should leave the grass uncut here, it gives a country feeling and avoids a too perfect feeling to the grounds |
Stroll down Pollination Street and take a left at Butterfly Way, you're now at St. Philip's Community Garden, the corner of Brock and Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal West. These people have their heart in the right place, openness, generosity, human kindness. A garden at a church is doubly meaningful, it shows the propensity to want to help, nourish, and feed people, but it is also symbolic, it might even be a reference to the original biblical Garden of Eden.
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| I remember walking by this garden a year ago; I think they began the garden last fall and I thought, at the time, it's a bit late in the season for gardening... But they continued and made the garden larger and better than ever. |
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