Wimbledon Wednesday - It's almost over

Only a few more days left and Wimbledon will have the final winners.  Although I enjoyed most of the matches, there are some that I just fast forward.  If you have been following my blog, you know who I don't cheer for and don't want to listen to their interview.  It would be a much better tennis world if they are not part of it.  But can you imagine if they did retire and became part of the sportcast team for tennis.  OMG, I think that would even be worst.  For the women's section, I am cheering for Maria Sharapova.  She is such a great player with no drama as well as very professional during interviews.  As for the men's section, my all time favorite Roger Federer is going to play the semi finals against Andy Murray, of course I will be cheering for Roger.  During the last week matches, they showed one of his tweets with a bunch of emojies.  I loved it.  After this weekend, I will have to wait a whole month before the US Open 2015 begins.  At least the time difference will only be three hours.  Good luck to all my favorites and look forward to seeing your matches this weekend and at the US open.

 

Tenacious Tuesday - Training and Tending

For the past few days, Jeff has been harvesting some of the fruits and vegetables from his garden.  I have been trying to post some of the latest harvest but sometimes I forget to take photos.  The other day he picked an apple from the tree he planted last summer.  All the three trees were grafted to have at least four different types of fruits.  The apple tree has 4 different types of apples.  The second one has plum, apricot, peaches and nectarines.  I am sure I have shown the perfect plum which I ate after returning from Vegas.  The third one is a variety of cherries.  So far not fruit is coming from that tree.  I know I promised to post photo from the 4th of July dinner but I realized I forgot to take them when we were having our dessert.

This was the first apple that we tasted and it was sweet and crisps.

We hope these will have a chance to grow before the squirrels ruin them.

These are the final harvest of this year's carrots.

The peaches were not ready but the plum was yummy.

This was harvested today and it was a bit bigger in size.

Superlative Sunday - Most likely to become tennis players

After watching a lot of Late night with Jimmy Fallon, my post today is a spin off from his Superlatives.  It is also related to Wimbledon since for the last week I have been watching a lot of tennis matches and more of it for another week.  Just to explain it a bit, I have taken a picture of some of the children of family and friends.  Some were an easy match but others maybe not be as similar as others.  It was fun doing it and I hope you enjoy all of them.  

                                            

Stars and Stripes Saturday - Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July to all!  Today we are just having a small celebration with my MIL and our very good friends J and G.  For the past couple of years we have been taking turns having the celebration at our home and theirs.  We try to have a menu that reflects the great American traditions.  Since the weather has been a little hotter than other days, we opt to have a BBQ.  Both beef and chicken burgers with a couple of different bread (square chibatta and medium dinner rolls as oppose to those regular flatters burger buns).  In addition we will have home made potato salad, southern buttery bbq corn, watermelon, red and blue jello with whip cream and my MIL will be making some red velvet cupcakes with her home made frosting and blue sprinkles.  Unfortunately as I write this posts, I can't post photos yet because we have another five hours before dinner.  You just have to patient to see what all of the above looks.  In the meantime, be safe if watching those fireworks but have a great 4th of July 2015.  I will have to wait a year or two before I can start singing the song, I am proud to be an American, although I already know all the lyrics to the three most popular anthems (Star spangled banner, America the Beautiful and God bless America).  I bet you there are only a handful that can sing our O Canada.  By the way, the Sgt at SJPD who I report to, actually knows the lyrics of O Canada because he started singing it last Wednesday.  

 

 

Flowery Friday - Simple and lovely

Now that you don't need a camera to take photos of something that is just simple and lovely to look at, I find myself taking photos of flowers everywhere I go.  As you noticed from yesterdays post, I took only a couple from the Atrium at Bellagio.  Now I just wanted to share some of the other photos of the flowers I have taken lately.  Somehow, these simple and pretty flowers, seems to make my day.  I just love looking at them even later when I check my phone to see if I actually captured them at it's peak. 

 

Touristy Thursday - Garden at Bellagio

Every time I go to Las Vegas, I always make sure I stop by the Bellagio Hotel to check out the display in their Atrium.  I don't think I have ever seen anything like the displays that they have.  A couple of weeks ago, I was in Vegas to see my BFFs from Toronto.  During one of our walks, we did stop by the current display. Just in case you did not get a chance to see them this summer, you can just check out some of the photos I took.  Hopefully you can enjoy them as much as I did.

Worthy Wednesday - Happy Canada Day, eh!

Happy Canada Day to all my family and friends in Canada and everywhere.  Just thought I would share what I'll be wearing today.  I'm trying to train my new pet Kevin to say Eh!  Jeff bought this as my gift.  It actually says about 35 different things, hard to understand but very very funny.

I'm proud to be a Canadian and I hope I am truly worthy citizen.