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This post brought a smile. Leanda! ❤ I love how you're exploring and cherishing nature here in Canada. The plants in your photos are familiar to me, though I don't know all the names. The mallow is gorgeous, and echinacea is grown widely here. We call the flower in picture 2 (with the gold petals and dark centre) black-eyed Susan. Directly below "Flora" are purple asters. Both of those grow in abundance in our yard. I wish you a beautiful gathering this weekend. ✨🌼

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Ahhh, wonderful! Thank you so much Robin for the names of the flowers and for your well-wishes regarding this weekend. I am so happy my post brought a smile... beautiful. ❤️🪻

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When I lived in the UK, in Manchester as you know it is called a rainy city where the rain flourishers all plants and forests and makes the soil is efficient and effective that leading to spark life of earthworms. Anyway, I was very careful when I walk on street whether on my own way from accommodation when I live to university when I pass into forests and look down all my way to not hurt earthworms because they get out on streets and other roads. I was eager to take them back to soil away from roads to reassure their safe.

I love Manchester so much. Despite I’m not kind of with rain.

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Oh, I understand your dilemma well, Raed… I have dug several holes in the soil for planting and many times I have seen earthworms. When I learned they have 5 pairs of aortic arches that pump blood like hearts I was in awe. Fortunately they can regenerate to a certain extent. 🪱

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And that great, to be able to regenerate is incredible. Really I’m happy to know that.

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That's fascinating, Leanda!

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🌹

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Thank you for sharing your story, Raed. How sweet that you saved the earthworms.

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And moreover, I love them. Earthworms are grace for soil. Their existence indicate to how the land is very soil.

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How land is very fertile not soil.

My problem are with names of things. Please forgive me for broke English I have

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Sorry I mean I’m not familiar so much with rain.

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I like the caterpillar moth - It either has a strange imagination or an odd sense of humour or both to want to evolve into a moth or a moth that is a caterpillar that is a moth - very intriguing and it makes me smile. Nothing is more amazing than that!

🐛🐛🦋🐛🐛

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😃 I am smiling too after reading your comment, Nicola… intriguing indeed! My friend said she had never seen one at her house before either. I saw another one yesterday 😍 and said hello… it had a leaf 🍁 and cobweb 🕸️ stuck to it so very gently with the aid of a stick I helped free it.

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Your nature shots and writing bring nature up close and personal as I sip my morning tea! Thank you for sharing these gentle moments during your Canadian journey Leanda 💫

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It is truly heartwarming to share it with you Andrea 🥰🙏✍🏻🎶💖🤗

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Herbal or black tea ☕️?

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My morning medicinal... lemon & ginger!

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Yum 😋

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Amazing, do you know what things I love?

I love those plants which grow in cracks. I adore them, they give a very lovely and decent view

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Many plants can grow in cracks... I wonder if you mean from the succulent family? They are amazing, I agree, Raed! 🪴

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I don’t know the name exactly

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I understand what you mean 😊

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That’s so kind of you.

Sometimes my English language can’t help and I fail to express and say things in right names. But I’m sure hearts and feelings talk and understand each other

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Like these in this link

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