If you hadn’t picked up the pattern yet, every 2 weeks I end up away from the internet for a couple days. Starting in 2 weeks, and for the duration of May, I’ll be away from the internet between Tuesday night and Friday. Tonight, when I fired up bloglines, I had about 200 unread posts. So, I had alot of reading to do.

Last Sunday, I posted a pic of the William & Mary in the shade garden. Today, I was out doing some landscaping/gardening (which I’ll fill you in on in another post), and walked by the the shade garden. Instead of a couple of blossoms, the William and Mary is in full bloom. You can see that the blossoms have changed colour. They open pink and over a few days turn to the blue you see in this pic:

This week I took some more pictures. I’ve picked 3 to use to tell you a little more about the last few weeks. They say a pictures worth a thousand words. I guess when it comes down to it, I don’t have the time to put into the 1000 words.

I took this picture outside and a bit away from the house. But, it gives you an idea of what I see when I look out the back through the french doors in the morning. Andrea’s aunt’s house is in the upper Saint John River valley.

During the week, each morning I drive south and eventually top a hill mostly surrounded by open fields. Once I start down the other side of the hill, this next pic is what I see. The village you can see in the pic is called Somerville. It’s across the river from Hartland. If you look at the center of the picture carefully, you can see the world’s longest covered bridge (1282 ft).

Although the bridge is still in the background, it’s easier to see in this picture. All of the white area is ice that piled up in a rain and thaw spell about 7 weeks ago. The covered bridge is a 1 lane bridge without any form of traffic control to coordinate which direction the traffic is traveling in at the moment. From what I’ve seen, everyone is very polite in using it.

Last week, I left the camera with Andrea. This week I thought I’d see if I could get a few pics of some of the other landscape that I’ve been driving through/by every Sunday. It was an overcast day, so both of these are quite grey. I took more pictures than this, but the others are quite blury because, well, I was moving when I took them.

Last week, I wrote about Over the rainbow. This whole in the cloud cover with the sun streaming through kept me company for almost half an hour. It reminded me of that song. The pic doesn’t do the scene justice.

The above pic was taken only about 2 minutes before this one. These were taken on an straight stretch of road that lasts about 8 miles. The pic below is just within the community of Williamsburg. I was hoping to capture the sense of how much space everyone has around them in a country community in Canada. And over the rise that dwindles in the foreground of the picture, is another scene much like this one.

Update: Andrea uploaded a few more images taken this afternoon. Just use the Desktop images link.

It’s been raining pretty much all day. It’s not unusual for us to have a few ice storms in the course of winter. Today was/is one of those days. I managed to snag a couple of decent photos. The first one is a 1024×768 image which I placed in our Desktop Background album:

And this one wasn’t quite as large, once trimmed, but could be incorporated into a nice desktop: