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I appear to have found the only Robin with a peanut allergy.... Or maybe it doesn't like this brand of peanut butter.
Common over-the-counter antihistamine used for allergy relief (sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes).
HMM!
Macro Mondays: Medications
(Width of frame 3.81cm/1.5 inches)
This Moʻai figure will cause a small wind storm if he is allowed to sneeze. Off to Costco for some bulk Claratin.
This face was actually being transported in a pick-up truck to a party on Vancouver Island.
I asked lil unicorn if he wanted to take an allergy tablet before we went out exploring today, and he revealed to me that unicorns don't have allergies ... of any kind! Wow! I always thought I was a unicorn (naturally) but hearing this made it clear to me that I am not. I live in the south, land of perpetual warm/hot weather, including my oft bragged about mild winters. And for this reason, there is always something triggering some sort of pesky allergy attack ... that said, I'll take my mild winters any day over the blizzards that many other places deal with. And I'll keep my Benadryl supply topped up!
Happy Tuesday, everyone ... I hope the beauty of spring is starting to surround you all ... well, those friends who I share this hemisphere with at least! Sending tons of love! 💕❤️
The Caturday theme this week is contrasts. I wanted a very cool photo full of shadows and harsh light but we had a week of overcast skies. So here's Pippi grooming and keeping herself pristinely clean while lying on dirty bedding. Because of all of her allergies, I vacuum the new carpet once a week and wash all of their bedding every week. Today is the day her bedding needs to be washed so it's at its very dirtiest. Today I'll wash the sheets, the pillowcases over the heating mats, the dish towels that serve as placemats...
Happy Caturday: Contrasts
While visiting a rural garden on a garden tour recently, we saw tons of this white fluff (pollen) all around. It was tricky getting a shot of the flowers without any of the white fluff on it. There were corners in the garden that looked like it had piles of snow heaped up in the corner from the accumulation of "fluff" from the trees. Small wonder people's allergies are bad this year. A friend has the fluff clinging to the rails of her balcony at her apartment. Keep the tissues handy!
The name Piz Gloria originated in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), wherein the hideout of the villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is a mountain-top building containing an allergies investigation clinic.
The name Piz Gloria originated in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), wherein the hideout of the villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is a mountain-top building containing an allergies investigation clinic.
Think Pink
Perhaps a bitter pill to swallow. Grand daughter Livia is allergic to the dog, so anytime she is over she needs help with that. When got them out I said...."wait a sec" and got the camera.
Unfazed hair by Stealthic
Fashionista Collection Earrings + Necklace by Heartsdale Jewellery
Vega frill shirt by TETRA
Winter bento rings by Earth Stones
Auburn Animation Set by Lyrium
Photo taken at Borkum
Downy-DSC_1877-Female Downy Woodpecker.
This is my first photo taken with my new Nikkor 200-500 mm lens. Impressed so far.
From Main Store
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From The Arcade Event
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-Sari-Sari - Am Sick - Thermometer *wear*
-The Secret Store - Macrame & Ivy
-tarte. holiday card garland
-Soy. CSC - Hot noodle [decor]
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Others
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8. Dead Dollz - Chandler - Blue / Chandler Pants - Blue
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-tb- Kitchen Basics - Cutting Board RARE
7. Apple Fall Patchwork Rug
NOMAD // Allergy Medicine (Rez) - OLD GROUP GIFT
Gellért Thermal Bath
Budapest
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 | Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO
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Both my wife and I have been having running noses since last week. When we walked across this canyon, we figured out why.
AKA Mountain Cedar, as in cedar "fever", the seasonal allergy that afflicts so many Central Texans...
This is a tiny part of our fence in the backyard with evening light in the background. HFF!
Sorry I'm behind on your streams...I'll try to get around later today if I'm up to it. I'm sick with ANOTHER bad sinus/ear infection. This Spring is horrible for this allergy sufferer!!! Ugh. Back to the couch.
WOW, another Explore!! I had no idea this would be that popular. Thanks guys!!! I can't believe it...I've been Explored 3 days in a row now!!! Feels so good! :)
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REFORD GARDENS | LES JARDINS DE METIS
Coucher de soleil, Sainte-Flavie.
Visit : www.refordgardens.com/
Photo taken close to REFORD GARDENS. (Sainte-Flavie)
Mrs Elsie Reford loved those beautiful sunsets.
Reference: Elsie's Paradise, The Reford Gardens, Alexander Reford, 2004, ISBN 2-7619-1921-1, That book is a must for Reford Gardens lovers!
''I shall always, all my life, want to come back to those sunsets.'' Elsie Reford, July 20, 1913. (page 25)
" It is just after 8 o'clock and I am sitting in front of my big window with the gorgeous panorama of a glorious afterglow from a perfect sunset. There is every hue of blue on the water of 'the Blue Lagoon' while Pointe-aux-Cenelles is bathed in pink and crimson and the dark hills of the north shore seem no further than two or three miles distant. I don't think in the whole world at this moment there could be anything more beautiful." Elsie Reford, June 2, 1931. (page 81)
''One thing I can do that no one else can is to pass the love that I feel for this place and this woman''. -Alexander Reford
Visit : www.refordgardens.com/
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From Wikipedia:
Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
Visit : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Reford
LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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OMG - Friday could not have come soon enough!!! I don't know about the rest of you but it has been a tough week! Too much work, allergies to where my head felt like it was in another world, raw throat, runny eyes and nose and did I mention way toooo much work? I adore Spring but the pollen is crazy - the cars are all covered so everyone is driving green ones at the moment!! Sorry if I didn't comment much - all I wanted to do was sleep!! Can't really take anything because I'm allergic to antihistamines so I just have to tough it out and drink lots of tea, gargle with vinegar, rest and pray it will go away!!!!
Hopefully I will recoup today (I had my 40 hrs in by yesterday afternoon - UGH!) so today is R&R (and some Flickr time looking at your beautiful pics) - I need to feel better because Lis and I are going to shoot fences in Savannah either Sat or Sun - can't wait!!!
I took this fence shot in Aiken, SC - just love the colors behind from all the flowers - had a shot that was further away - but loved the close up of this and hope you do too!! I got about 20 great fences there - my brother and I walked all around town searching and shooting - we had a blast!!! He's the best!!
Florabella Actions - of course!!!
ELS 501 sits north of Green Bay awaiting a down tree to be removed on a warm summer day. The tracks are covered in a weed called ragweed on the ELS mainly between Crivitz and Green Bay making for some mighty sinus problems.
I’m trying to find a different Vet. (Current one suggested euthanasia because she’s developed allergy to insulin). I am monitoring her very closely, trying different things.
Pose: Fashiowl Bob pose pack.
-Taken in Black Dragon
-Post work in Adobe Photoshop
-Taken at Angel of Pain
The pollen is everywhere, covering everything it can find in a thick coat of that yellow stuff! Can you say Achoo?
In spite of the high count of tree pollen in our area, we dared to venture out to a nearby arboretum to enjoy the first weekend of spring with its beautiful, sunny weather.
Explore" 03-25-19, #212
As you may know, Jimmy has allergies to all sorts of unknown things and is currently having severe reactions. I took these pictures the day before yesterday when I brought him to work. He'd already had a long-acting steroid injection three weeks earlier that was supposed to give him some relief for three months. He got a second, shorter-acting steroid injection that day. So far, there is possibly a little improvement to his skin but not as much as any of us were hoping for.
The area between the ears and the eyes is a common place for cats to have lesions associated with food allergies. I have recently added wet food to the cats' diet because I'm trying to help Jimmy and Mack lose weight to decrease their chances of becoming diabetic. Food is something I've tried to control very carefully for most of their lives specifically because of Jimmy's allergies to who-knows-what, but because of a miscommunication, I thought the wet food we were adding had already been "tested" in the past and hadn't caused any problems for him. This turns out not to be the case. Cross your fingers that something as simple as cutting out all food other than the Hill's C/D and T/D that Jimmy has been eating for years will be the solution to this latest allergic reaction!
I inserted the close up of Jimmy's sores so you wouldn't have to see them full size. The lesions are between the eyes and the ears which is why you don't see them when looking at Jimmy straight on.
Only recently started suffering with these nasty allergies Omg don't they make your eyes run, your nose itch and then someone gives you flowers, you smile politely say thank you then and dash for the antihistamines and a box of tissues lol
This was going to be a joint post with Starr but things went wrong so here I am suffering on my own..
Shot using Samposes flowers #4
At a private location