Thursday, June 30, 2016

THURSDAY IN THE GARDEN WITH DANTE: A PETROSPECTIVE

These are some historical pictures of Dante in the garden from years past.


"Camera Reddy"


 "Sunny Daze"





"It's a Jungle Out Here!"


 "The Colour PURRple"





"Quit While You're Ahead" and have ...





... "A Heady Experience"


Thursday, June 23, 2016

THURSDAY IN THE GARDEN WITH DANTE: IT'S ALL IN THE PURRSPECTIVE!

Dante wants to show you some purrspectives of his garden that you may not have seen yet.

This picture is taken streetside and shows you the garden through the veil of the Manitoba maple tree.



 This is the purrspective from the opposite side of the garden, and what do you know?  There's Dante lying down under the wrought iron bench.

 He is 'lion' down in a seating area.  Well he never has been a conformist -- why start now?

 So now, instead of just dreaming about it, Dante immerses himself in yet another purrspective -- from within the garden.

"My purrspective is that this is heaven!!!" says he.





Tuesday, June 21, 2016

DANTE DOUBLE TAKES!

You know what they say -- double your pleasure, double your fun!

 Well, here's double your Dante pleasure ...







... and double your Dante fun.  


Yahoo!

Thursday, June 16, 2016

THURSDAY IN THE GARDEN WITH DANTE: ON THE OTHER SIDE

Dante is sitting on the front porch chair waiting to take you on a tour of the other side of the garden.

 "Yes", says Dante.  "Yoo kin see dat da gardin cums around by da side of da house, too.  Let me take yoo fur a closah look."


 "Dere is a sittin' area rite beside da frunt steps wif a cast iron an' wood bench an' little tables wif cat ornimints.  Mama is parshul ta buddhas."


 "On de uddah side of da post is a trellus wif sum 'climb-at-us-es'."



 "It has several diffurent colours of flowahs climbin' at us.  Sum is pink, sum is white and sum is purrple."


 "On de uddah side of da bench area is anuddah bench an' a pot of plantid begonias ."


 "An' behine dat bench are my belovid hydrangahs.  Let me take yoo back up to da frunt porch."


"On de uddah side of the frunt porch is a gorjuss hangin' plant.  Da red an' wite flowahs is fewshas but even Mama duzn't know da name of da pure red wuns -- but dey shur is speCATular!"


"Dis is Dante signin' off so until next time, bye bye!"


Tuesday, June 14, 2016

DANTE: SLEEPY BOY!

It always amazes me how cats like to pick some of the most uncomfortable places to take a nap.

 Here is Dante lying on the mulch in the garden.


The bits of bark would drive me barking mad, but Dante seems oblivious.
PURRhaps in his dreams he's sleeping on pillows.




Sunday, June 12, 2016

DANTE'S IN-TIMATE MOMENTS

As you know by now, Dante has become very in-timate with the weigela bushes and is enchanted with the scent of their blooms.

And if a picture is worth a thousand words, here's how I know he's really 'in' with them.

The intoxiCATing aroma relaxes him.


 And Dante loves them best when he and they are at their 'peek'!


And now is 'peek' season for sure.



"Flowahs is da "IN" fing yoo know!" 



After all 'flower power' is the power of love and that never goes out of style.


P.S.  Thanks again to Auntie Susan for the latest pix.

Thursday, June 9, 2016

THURSDAY IN THE GARDEN WITH DANTE

Mind you Dante's in the garden every day (when it's not raining), but Thursday is when he likes to show it off.

 Dante's lying at a center point in the garden, and here's what he has to say.
"Dis is a widah shot of my gardin, incloodin' da birdbaf dat I alreddy showed you.  We has plantid four hostas, some spirea bushes which is just startin' ta bloom, and acourse da bootifull wite weigela bush."


 "Heer's a close-up of me beside the bush which ackshully has some pale pink blooms as well.  Dis also shows summa Mama's treasured garden cats which she puts out efurry year.  Aren't dey pritty?"


"An' heer rite behine my tail is a hydrangah bush which is jus' startin' ta grow.  Sumtimes it has blue blossums but only if da soil has enuff aloominum.  Dis year dey will probably be pink or white.  Furdah up behine me is our gardin feature which Dada put up last year.  It's got sum clematis startin' to climb it.  An' den acourse dere's da purriwinkles which is slowly takin' ovah all da empty space in the gardin.  An' to my rite is ...


 ... my fafurite weigela bush wif dark pink blossums and a heavenly scent.  I kin nevah get too much of dem."


 "I fink yoo cud say we has a verrrry close relashunship!"



"An' dat's da point!"

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

DANTE: HANGIN' IN THE GARDEN

Dante usually hangs a-round in the garden every day.


But today's a little diffurent -- he's hanging an oval!




"Anybuddy up for sum Ovaltine?  All we needs is sum milk."