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Thursday May 8, 2025

No calls today so I puttered around the apartment doing various odd jobs before heading out for a walk through Beacon Hill Park. The weather is a bit chilly in the morning but once the sun came out in the afternoon it was proper shorts weather.

The rhododendrons in the park are stunning. I hadn't noticed how each bush blooms at a different time. The very early bushes are long past flowering, so I thought their time was over, but their neighbours are now lush and colourful, with wildly interesting colours. They are real show ponies though, compared to the elegant simplicity of the camas that grow wild underneath these showy monsters.

A lovely composition of pink and orange rhododendrons with light purple flowers underneath and a bright green specimen tree behind

lovely and colourful composition

my balcony bamboo plant, transplanted into a new, 16 inch terracotta coloured plastic pot

the bamboo fits!