Canal Side Gardening

Heron in flight over the still Canal today......

It is very peaceful walking down by Canals. 

It feels like you are a million miles

from the rat race which so many of us live in. 

I go there when I can and it really

is therapeutic, in a strange kind of way. 

Still water, narrow boats cruising at a 

gentle pace, such friendly people, from 

all walks of life, 

choose to live or travel 

on narrow boats.  

           

I took a walk by The Grand Union

Nature and beauty side by side

Canal today, 6.7.15 to get some 

inspration for my blog.  It was 

a bit cool which was a shame.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

                            

I love walking by canals and watching people who 

live on house boats, going 

about theire day to day lives. 

I find it fasciniating.

 

I looked into this lifestyle but 

it is not so straight forward.

May be it will have to wait until 

I can have a more leisurely

lifestyle and ideally somewhere warm. 

Captured this as boat was going
through a canal lock with
owner's permisson

So here is my first example 

of a 'Mini Garden 

on a Narrow boat.

It looks so colourful and atrractive 

especially at this time of the sumer.

I love this reflection don't you?

I watched a Lady who clearly lived right

 on the Canal with her

watering can taking water from the canal.

and she then went to water her Garden!

 

Wild brambles in early July. 
A treat to pick later on.

Some residents of canal side life 

have the privelidge of a permanent mooring. 

This is where you tend to see a whole lot of 

narrow boats moored together.

So along side this there are 

those lucky people who

 can create their own 'Mini Gardens'

on the land.  

Hanging baskets, planters and little 

sheds all alongside their homes. 

Dappled sunlight
in the afternoon

I love the reflections you see. 

There is something

 serene about water. 

Here there are often lots

 of boats but not today.

 

Some just have their boats to display 

their colourful pots and planters. 

I think this is really nice it if it 

is done tastefully. 

So you can have a Mini Garden 

almost anywhere. 

Nature is great. Wild flowers
grow anywhere

There is so much to see, 

some days
 I see at least two herons either 

standing still or in flight. 

The herons seem to be around

 in the same spots. 

In flight over a certain patch of water or

watching on the canal side.