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Happy Father's Day to you dads out there!

My friend Ray called me while he was waiting for a train this afternoon. I took a picture of him out of my mom-in-law's condo window. You can see a zoomed-in photo here.

Karin & Scott's wedding photo.

Hung out at the new house for a bit with Jeff and Ray yesterday morning to talk with Sean about renovation stuff. Renovation work is going well and on time, yay! Much of the first floor has been repainted, the new tub has been installed.

The movers are scheduled to bring our stuff out of storage in about a month. A month seems like forever to me right now; I am SO excited about being able to finally move in and get settled. To not have to commute for an hour to get to our place just to look at the garden. To have the house to ourselves. To be able to move into MY NEW OFFICE.

But I digress. During our visit yesterday, I had the check out the garden, of course, and was delighted to find the mock orange tree blooming outside our kitchen window:



And hey, I hadn't realized that hostas had flowers:

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I am immensely grateful to those of you who have been e-mailing or posting as well as the community at YouGrowGirl.com for helping me identify the various plants in our new garden! I still feel pretty clueless, but not QUITE as clueless as before.

There were lots of bumblebees flitting about our hardy geraniums. Check out this very cool close-up of a bumblebee in our garden that Ray took. He and I sat and watched the bumblebees for a bit; it was fascinating to watch them up close, sticking their tongues into the centre of each flower, soaking up nectar. I was curious enough to look up the anatomy of a bumbleebee when I got home.

I also wished I had paid more attention in grade school when we learned about flower pollination. I found myself wondering what happened to flowers that aren't pollinated, that happen to be missed for whatever reason. Does it just mean that the seeds from that flower won't germinate? I feel so ignorant. From this simple explanation, though, it does look as if there's no pollen, the plant won't progress in a way to allow propagation.

Later in the day, Jeff and I went to a post-wedding get-together held by Karin and Scott, who were married in Cuba earlier this year.

Here's Karin's dress, which she made herself for $40 (!):



She also made her own headpiece (see photo at top) out of earrings.

I like this photo of Reid:



Reid used my camera to take this photo of Luisa and me:



Vartan makes drinks behind the bar:



You can see some of the other photos in my Flickr photo set.

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