Getting to know the neighbourhood

Walking East takes me along the road towards Nanticoke with the lake and houses and cottages on the right and farm fields and windmills on the left.

I have always liked the windmills (not popular with everyone). They look like they are elegantly cartwheeling in place and I believe in the need for renewable energy sources.

The sides of the road right now are full of colour; blue cornflowers, yellow"scrambled eggs", orange "ditch lilies" and white Queen Anne's Lace. Plenty of Teasels too, which I didn't realize had a flower.

What is common teasel? An exotic plant native to Europe, common teasel was introduced to North America by the earliest settlers. It has escaped cultivation and is often found growing in prairies, meadows and savannas, as well as in disturbed areas along creeks, railroads and roadsides

Read more at Gardening Know How: What Is Common Teasel: Tips For Controlling Teasel Weeds https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/controlling-teasel-weeds.htm

What is common teasel? An exotic plant native to Europe, common teasel was introduced to North America by the earliest settlers. It has escaped cultivation and is often found growing in prairies, meadows and savannas, as well as in disturbed areas along creeks, railroads and roadsides

Read more at Gardening Know How: What Is Common Teasel: Tips For Controlling Teasel Weeds https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/controlling-teasel-weeds.htm

What is common teasel? An exotic plant native to Europe, common teasel was introduced to North America by the earliest settlers. It has escaped cultivation and is often found growing in prairies, meadows and savannas, as well as in disturbed areas along creeks, railroads and roadsides

Read more at Gardening Know How: What Is Common Teasel: Tips For Controlling Teasel Weeds https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/controlling-teasel-weeds.htm

What is common teasel? An exotic plant native to Europe, common teasel was introduced to North America by the earliest settlers. It has escaped cultivation and is often found growing in prairies, meadows and savannas, as well as in disturbed areas along creeks, railroads and roadsides

Read more at Gardening Know How: What Is Common Teasel: Tips For Controlling Teasel Weeds https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/controlling-teasel-weeds.htm

What is common teasel? An exotic plant native to Europe, common teasel was introduced to North America by the earliest settlers. It has escaped cultivation and is often found growing in prairies, meadows and savannas, as well as in disturbed areas along creeks, railroads and roadsides

Read more at Gardening Know How: What Is Common Teasel: Tips For Controlling Teasel Weeds https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/controlling-teasel-weeds.htm

Lakers to watch coming in and out of Naticoke (bulk carriers or oil tankers) and track on my Marine Traffic or Boat Nerd Apps.

The fishing tugs coming in and out of Port Dover, our source for Perch dinners.

Heather and Don loved the view when they came for a deck visit.

Brit and I went for a beach walk. So weird to park opposite Stubbs, go down the walkway and past "my place" with strangers sitting on the deck.

Not much beach

but we walked to the middle of the Old Provincial Park beach.

4 fishing tugs were in surprisingly close to the beach.

One solitary little, black headed gull in a flock of larger gulls sitting on the beach. He's a Bonaparte Gull. Brit identified him immediately. The only gull to nest in trees.

Had a magnificent, spooky looking sunset after a stormy day.

Mark and Angie invited me out for a sail today. No wind, we bobbed in the same place for a couple of hours but the wine, cheese and chat were all good and it was lovely to be out on the water.

As we motored back to the marina, past the entrance to Port Dover harbour, a small plane was taxiing out.

My video of it taking off didn't turn out well.

According to Don the tree in front of my porch (which I will move this fall to give it more room to grow) is a Limelight Hydrangea. It's flowers started out a bright green and some are now almost white. They should gradually go pink before brown for the winter.

I received another photo of a completed sheep from my Sheep Tricks class last fall. Joanna chose just to do the button sheep and spent most of the class sewing, not hooking, bu "Buttons, Buttons - whose got the buttons" is now finished.