Last week I didn't know where roses are grown for perfume, and this week I didn't realize there is a water lily crop in Bangladesh. The picture is on Bing this morning.
It makes me think that they are talking about Lotus, which we can buy here as a canned product and is well known. But that turns out to not be the case.
The Bing image and description is such pretty picture. And the flowers look like our traditional water lilies rather than lotus. You might want to check out the series HERE as they are breathtaking. The photographer is Pham Trung.
Other articles say that water lilies' stems are edible and the plant is used for brewing tea. There are articles on native edible water lilies in North America.
It doesn't look like the kind of rose harvesting we checked out last week. It looks more like a local crop. There's a reference in the article to the harvest providing extra income as the lilies are used for food and home decoration.
Here my own version of water lilies in black water. This one is at the Royal Botanical Gardens in the rose garden.
November is the month of storms on Lake Ontario. So if we go to the International Lake Ontario - St. Lawrence River Board website - ijc.org and the weekly regulation summary, it says that the outflow is expected to be the what's in the plan.
For the week ending Wed Nov 1 2017 the reading was 74.84 m (245.54 ft) and the average this time of year is 74.56m (244.62 ft). So it looks like about a foot above last year's levels.
We have a strong wind warning in effect. With a weather buoy located in Grimsby, we can look at our readings. The current conditions say that the wave height is 0.1 metres, while other places, such as South Georgian Bay have wave heights of 1.0 metres. I hadn't realized that there is a temperature measurement in Grimsby - we're at air temperature of 12 Celsius and water temperature of 13C.
There are colour charts of the Grimsby Buoy at windfinder.com.
Our spring and autumn lake 'breezes' delay the onset of frost. This would be of note for our wine harvest. It began in September, and concludes in November when later season Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon are picked. Of course the ice wines wait for the frozen temperatures of minus 8 Celsius.
Our pictures were taken last weekend with those 'breezes' quickly moving the brooding clouds past vineyards and fields. The large tractor in the vineyard is a mechanical picker.
