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    My Weekend Plans & A Very Pretty Picture

    September 5, 2025 by Karen Leave a Comment

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    I saw a melon, I picked a melon, I almost ate a melon. Before I could dig in I had the urge to take a photo of my melon with my melon coloured flowers. Why? What sort of kitten-hating, fire-breather wouldn't if they could?

    Dahlias, clockwise, starting from the one to the upper left of the melon: JS Jenny, A La Mode (but a poor example), A La Mode (better example), Cafe Au Lait, Kelsey Annie Joy, Verrone's Obsidian (black), Yvonne

    I did eventually get to eat the melon and it was like eating sweetened sunshine. Melons are one of the few things that I grow because it actually tastes so much better than ones you get in the store.

    Ditto for black beans. I know. Who knew something as boring as a black bean could pull something like that off.

    I will be at the Hamilton Dahlia Society Show taking place at The Royal Botanical Gardens on Saturday taking photos of the winners and the event for them because I grew up to be a member of a garden society not a

    If you're local and you love flowers you will be alarmed at the amount of floral beauty you've been missing your whole life. I just got back from taking a few photos of them setting up for the show and the dahlias are nuts.

    Several are the size of a throw pillow.

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    But the best part about the dahlia show is all the members of the dahlia society bring their blooms and we sell bouquets at the show. And they're cheap. These are just some of the flowers that'll be made into bouquets that people who come to the show can buy.

    Of course, I had to make the photo into a puzzle, so good luck to you all who attempt it.

    In today's puzzle we have a muskmelon, a couple of tomatoes, Floret zinnias, dahlias, bells of Ireland, sungold tomatoes and .... ? That indicates there's one more food item in there. Which I assume you can see right away, but let's pretend it's difficult.

    Have a good weekend!

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