A few weeks ago I was at a customer's house showing my crew what to do, when I noticed a big bad clump of grass up against a rock. "Damn!" I thought to myself, "these mow blow and go companies never clean up after themselves" I reached down to pick it up and something pink and furless scurried about underneath. I jumped up and screamed so loudly that I scared the %*&# out my crew, and they ending up screaming too.

This summer, I asked some of the people on my crew if they would be willing to write a blog. This is Emma's contribution of Summer 07.

I know that they have come and gone but I had to mention the amazing tree peonies that I have seen around the city. I took this photograph one day while working on Walmer road just south of Dupont. It was an over cast day and it had just rained. I love how I caught the droplettes of water on the leaves.

I have only a few moments to write, before I fall asleep on the key board. I am so excited that the Woodland Phlox are blooming! It means that the fresh Ontario strawberries are going to be ready soon. The wild varieties are ready for tasting and they are devine, small and sweet tasting. I took these photographs in the forest behind my house in the Rouge River Valley.

Before I begin, I have some sad news. The next door neighbour's Jack Russell Terriorist lunged at the ladder that the Robins were nesting on, and he killed them all, just for sport. I was there, I watched it happen right in front of me in a matter of seconds and there was nothing that I could do. It was pretty traumatic.