05 Thursday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, bloom, fuzzy, garden, pond, Technology, water lily, weather, widow
been rushing out to the garden every time I get home to see if the water lily has bloomed…
it has opened up quite a bit… weather has been cool which doesn’t help… not sure if it is finished or not…
and for whatever reason I haven’t been able to get good pictures… the yellow in the centre always turns fuzzy… weird…
04 Wednesday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, Courtenay BC, fallen, flowers, garden, green, pictures, rain, raindrops, widow
I love taking pictures of raindrops on things… once the rain is over, lol…
it is very funny because I don’t like rain… but I like what it does after it has fallen…
I was also realizing how green the lawn is as I walked up the street after all the rain we’ve received recently… reminded me of Courtenay, BC, where the grass was usually brown most of the summer but once the rainy season came, everything burst into amazing shades of green…
03 Tuesday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, chickadees, flowers, garden, memories, photos, purple, sparse, widow
got some shots of flowers and birds in the garden…
sadly it seems that the flowers are getting a bit more sparse… temperatures are falling and the light is receding bit by bit…
also got a few photos of the chickadees as they were flitting back and forth to the feeder… they move so fast that I am always thrilled when I get a shot…
took these with my actual camera…
wondering when I need to bring in the Japanese Maple and the hibiscus… if I wait too long they get rather grumpy and lose all their leaves, lol…
31 Saturday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, Falcon Lake, magnet, nature, pictures, purple, screen, shopping, widow
last year around this time we went out to Falcon Lake for some camping fun…
I picked up the cutest magnetic screen protectors, shaped like butterflies… I put the three of them on the patio screen door…
recently I caught this picture of an actual butterfly on the screen…
wondered if it was having a visit with its magnet friends, lol…
30 Friday Aug 2019
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our last day of camping was sunny but windy…
after a hike along the beach the decision was made not to take the boat out… the whitecaps were big…
got some great photos along the way…
so, we packed up and headed toward home… we stopped at Seven Sisters Falls on the way and had a lovely wander along the river…
beautiful scenery… a reminder of lovely visits that my beloved and I took to this spot… it was fun for the boys to see it for the first time…
while we were there the boys spotted many frogs… made me giggle because I often take photos of frogs… they use a much more hands-on approach…
29 Thursday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, garden, photos, rainbow, thunderstorm, watch, widow
the other evening there was a thunderstorm…
afterwards I took this photo out the front door… hadn’t been much sun for most of the day, so it was great to see this…
I was on the watch for a rainbow because the sky just had that look about it…
and then, this…
it was gorgeous and reminded me of the many rainbows we saw when we were on Maui… I think we saw at least one every day and one day we saw five…
28 Wednesday Aug 2019
rain stopped around 6 this morning… it was still chilly, but dry, yay…
after breakfast we went out in the boat and spent the day on the water…
we saw a pelican, two deer and maybe a merganser… we fished and my son-in-law caught a couple and I caught one;-)…
it was calm when we took the boat out of the water, nothing like when we crossed the lake – both times – it was very rough…
we baked potatoes around the fire, had steak and mushrooms to go with them, and then for dessert I had a delicious s’more… others may have had more than one, lol… the current method of making them involves using cookies covered in chocolate and then putting a roasted marshmallow between them… much simpler that graham crackers and a piece of chocolate bar…
27 Tuesday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, boat launch, family, fishing, fun, moments, rain, resort, shopping, shore fishing, store, weather, widow
during the night it rained a few times but there was sun and blue sky this morning… along with a fair bit of wind…
the weather report called for rain later, but when we walked to the beach the water was pretty rough…
once everyone was up and had a simple breakfast we headed out for a day of shore fishing… and checking out resort stores…
although it rained off and on all day we had lots of fun…
particularly as I caught a small Jack and then the daddy caught a much bigger one… I focussed on improving my casting…
we found every boat launch on the highway in two directions and checked out a few spots we’d never been to before…
once we got back to the trailer, we napped and watched videos as the rain started to come down in a much more serious manner, lol…
had burgers for supper and then played board games…
now it is time for bed, with the hope that the rain will stop by morning…
26 Monday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, family, fawn, fishing, geese, memories, moments, rain, walk, widow, woodpecker
so far we’ve seen a fawn, frogs, geese and a pileated woodpecker… and we’ve only been here since noon;-)…
we’ve hiked around the campground and taken a few photos from the bridge that is usually in my pictures…
we’ve fished, or more precisely, practised casting, lol…
and are currently sitting around a campfire waiting for it to die down so we can cook hotdogs for our supper…
why is it that hotdogs taste so delicious when cooked over a fire…
pretty fine day considering we were led to believe it was going to rain all day…
25 Sunday Aug 2019
Posted in garden, life, nature, Photography
spent some time out in the garden watching for the baby fish which I spotted a few days ago… I saw at least two sizes, so am eager to see how many there are…
they move really quickly, so the chances of getting any shots of them is slim…
but I did get a few pictures of the rest of the fish sunning themselves…
I’ve also been taking photos daily of the water lily bud as it slowly grows toward the surface of the pond…
really hoping I get to see it bloom…
