As promised, this morning I am announcing the winner of Charles Dowding’s book Veg Journal! Congratulations to Sheila Creighton! Sheila, please email me at the address listed on my contact page and send along your mailing address so I can get the book out to you this week. Thank you so very much to everyone who entered the contest!
Well, Flowery Prose The Blog turned 8 years old a little while back and I meant to write a little something to celebrate, but somehow it was overlooked, and here I am, a few weeks-ish late. I would like to offer a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who generously and kindly gives FP a read, and/or stops in to comment – you all rock and I’m very grateful to you!*
Just for fun, I thought I’d share my top three favourite posts I’ve done so far – I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them.
The Don’ts of Bird Photography. Timing is very important when taking bird photos. You’ll see what I mean. (Be sure to click on the image in the link for full, glorious effect).
Bookmarks. Since I wrote this post (and transferred to another library branch in the city), I am delighted (bewildered?) to add a child’s pink one-piece swimsuit to the list. I am not joking.
Fun with Search Terms, Flowery Prose Edition.
Why not celebrate with me and put a link to your favourite post that you’ve done on your own blog in the comments?
I didn’t quite realize it before we moved in last summer, but our new home is situated on a property containing a delightfully large number of apple trees. There appears to be several different cultivars. I have no idea what they are (it’s a bit easier to narrow the ID on them when they fruit!), but what a treat to see them blooming right now. The sight – and lovely sweet scent! – makes me smile each time I head out the door.
Which fragrant flowers in your garden are your favourites?
One of my favourite sights of spring: larch trees in flower. The upright pink ones are the elegant, showy females in their rosy party dresses – the males are the compact pollen-bearers, in tidy yellow-brown suits, clinging to the undersides of the branches. You can see a couple of females and a male in this photo I snapped late last week.
Up close with a beautiful pink long-stemmed rose. 🙂
Ah…lilac flowers. Divinely dreamy. Even if they make me sneeze. 😉
Wow, do I miss summer already! I snapped these photos while taking in the gorgeous sights of the Silver Springs Botanical Garden here in Calgary at the end of May this year.
Do you grow lilacs? If so, which ones are your favourites? (If you have any photos on your blog or website, feel free to link them here so we can admire!).
I love the WordPress feature that keeps track of the search engine terms that have led readers to our blogs. Some of them are obvious and you can definitely pinpoint the exact entries you’ve written that came up in the search (and hopefully assisted someone with their query)…but others are just plain entertaining! I have a habit of plugging in as many words as possible into search engines to narrow down the possible hits, so I can only imagine what someone on the receiving end might think of the weird stuff I come up with.
Here are a few of the search terms that have been logged on Flowery Prose within the past year, the ones that got me giggling the most. I really hope something I’ve posted helped these folks out, as well, but I’m not entirely convinced of that….
saskatoon berry alcohol shot
Yes, please.
hula hooping sitting on bed
I’m not that flexible…or creative. I might somehow throw out a hip.
what if I eat a spittle bug
No biggie, it’s three percent of your daily recommended intake of protein. And the spittle gives it a smooth mouthfeel.
prose soup
Is that like Alphagetti noodles? Do you add veggies? I might want that recipe.
prose on parenting
*looks to see if anyone has dropped off any kids at my house and left them there without my knowledge*
nose ill
I think this was supposed to be “Nose Hill,” one of my favourite places to walk in Calgary. I can’t say I’ve ever written a post about “nose ills,” but if there’s a call for it, I can definitely make something up oblige.
covering raised veggie bads (sic) at night
I’m glad I’m not the only one who had veggie bads this year – I can’t believe only three of my carrot seeds germinated out of an ENTIRE package. Maybe I would have had more success had I covered them at night. Things to note for next year.
same look like winter cress but not
Occasionally my hair gets this way before I put the anti-frizz cream in.
speak about flower
Ask my hubby; I do, ad nauseum. This may be a search term I’m actually qualified to write about. If not qualified, I can certainly babble endlessly about it. I have also been known to expound at length about flour, as well, but that’s another story….
Check your search terms: do you have any silly or unusual ones you’d like to share?
