Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Beating the Heat and Meeting the Queen in Her Lace Finery

We are in the middle of a heat wave, but it did cool down more than usual overnight Sunday. In addition, we also got out earlier than usual yesterday morning. We had already been getting out earlier lately, but we walked well before 8 yesterday.

We also took ourselves out of our neighbourhood over to the back bridges where we found Queen Anne and her lace (Daucus carota) was blooming widely and wildly.

It was profuse behind the unfortunate, dilapidating, historic machine shop. (Nothing but phone pics today,)



We could see it later by the river as we looked first to the trail bridge and also back toward the old shop by Gillies Bridge.



And there was more of the Queen’s finery to see looking toward the old McArthur Mill.



After the walk, it was still delightfully cool, so we picked up coffee and took it to the park. Since Sue's photo prompt combined ‘red and leisure’, she decided that AC sitting leisurely on a park bench with red hat, red shirt and red coffee cup would fit the bill nicely. The clothes weren't staged for the photo; I just frequently wear red. The cup, however, was staged because the cups they gave us were a special blue for Tim Hortons camp funding week, so we begged for a traditional red cup, which remained empty for the photo.






15 comments:

  1. The second one down, Queen Anne holding court amidst the commoners in rags...(ragweed in front).
    Really like the last, sort of misty shot, of the Old Mill. Lots of smoke in the air yesterday.

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  2. That old building in the background certainly does look interesting. I have always dreamed of renovating a building like that into a home.

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  3. My favorites today are the two with river water showing. And must laugh that a bit of finger appears in the first. Queen Ann's Lace is certainly a pretty flower when lots of it appears.

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  4. I love queen Anne's lace. Sue's picture could be captioned 'still waters run deep'.

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  5. A lovely photo! Good for you for getting up and out. I woke at 4:30 today, Joe is sleeping in, I am sure until 8. He's been having such issues.

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  6. Delightful photos. I like that last one the best, even if it's staged.

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  7. I think I'm still recovering from having the two youngest granddaughters here for a week so I lazed in bed until 7 this morning and 8 yesterday. Must get moving because of have gardening to do before it gets too hot.
    The queen is lovely in her finery.

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  8. The Queen is looking mighty fine and so is that red-shirted guy on the bench! Great theme for the challenge.

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  9. The queen has beautiful finery this time of year. It looks like a lovely area for a walk.

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  10. Very pretty! The old buildings and the bridge are perfect backdrops. You look spiffy in your red!

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  11. The Queen is looking lovely, glad it cooled off a bit! *Sorry if duplicate, I'm getting error message.

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  12. Queen Anne has been busy in your neighbourhood.

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  13. That is a good shot of you for Sue's theme.

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  14. My favorite is the first bridge shot. Lovely and peaceful. You do wear red frequently and it suits you!

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