The Hydrangeas are beautiful this year. It is unusual to see the blossoms blend from lime green, to pink, to mauve, to blue, all in one cluster because these are levels of maturity and indicators of differing soil conditions.
It turns out that I was right about the football game last night. It was great! The Air show is a bust for today because of the rain. And the Olympics? I made a concerted effort last night to watch the coverage from Beijing and came away with a few observations. Off and on, I watched for maybe two hours and saw maybe 15 minutes of actual competition. The commercials were coming thick and fast and repetitively. There was coverage of some background of a few of our Canadian Olympians, some snippets of the opening ceremonies, a painfully long review of the march of the Olympians into the 'Bird's Nest' stadium, some interesting Chinese cultural videos, and so much coverage of the heat, humidity, and bad air that I literally gagged. If last night was any indication of things to come, then sifting through all this peripheral nonsense to find some riveting sports battles featuring Canadian athletes will be an Olympian task.
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