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matting…

06 Thursday Mar 2025

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had a fun time remembering the “installation” which a friend helped me install a number of years ago as I was making adjustments to them…

the installation consists of twenty-nine photos of water lilies which I had taken…

over the years a number of the pictures had slipped in the frames and I finally got around to removing them one by one and taping the photos to the matting before reinstalling them on the wall…

there had been wine and a lot of laughter as we worked away to get all the pictures up on the wall, lol…

this time my housemate was able to help with the pieces I couldn’t reach, lol…

happy to have this project completed…

whacked…

05 Wednesday Mar 2025

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I’ve been a bit off, and grumpy, for the last little while, and it wasn’t until I was talking with my daughter that I realized the cause…

I hadn’t been paying much attention to the calendar as most of the time feels like Saturday or Sunday now that I am retired, lol…

it has been thirteen years to the day since my beloved passed…

feels a bit like it snuck up on me although in the past month I have had several dreams about finding him in the hospital with a disconnected breathing tube in his mouth… no one had told me he was dead…

seems strange that after all this time I can still be whacked with the grief…

the good news is that once I figure out what has been causing the discomfort, it usually passes and I am able to move forward in a more positive frame of mind…

I don’t forget him, but can get back to remembering all of the wonderful times we had together and make new memories of the wonderful life that I do have…

this photo of trees is one of the last I took with him… we had taken a drive through the park to see the hoarfrost…

so many wonderful memories;-)…

sarong…

04 Tuesday Mar 2025

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time to change up the drawer in the living room table for this next season…

put away the L O V E letters, butterflies, and dragonflies that have been in it since sometime after Christmas… I also packed up all of the heart decorations that had been out…

I put a colourful sarong in each of the four squares and then put all the crystals, which had been part of the last display, back on top of them…

looks good and I topped it off with my rock bowl filled with my Crystal Oracle cards;-)…

micro-climate…

02 Sunday Mar 2025

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spent a delightful hour on the deck in the sunshine…

last evening my housemate dug out one of the deck chairs from under the tarp so there would be a place to sit when the weather is cooperative…

I found a set of cushions in the garage and brought out my Assiniboine Park blanket…

pulled over a small table and put my current book on it…

I did have my winter jacket on, but the sun on my face as I was reading was wonderful;-)…

there is still lots of snow in the garden, but the deck is always its own little micro-climate…

I even filled up a few bird feeders…

strength…

27 Thursday Feb 2025

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to continue with the strength of the sun, I got this photo of one of the solar-powered lights…

it is one of four that I received from the Ottawa kids… I had put three away, but left this one out…

rather excited to see the lovely pattern of light on the deck;-)…

spring is really coming…

freezing…

26 Wednesday Feb 2025

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for most of the winter the bedroom window has been closed all the time, partly because it was frozen shut and partly because it has been incredibly cold…

a few nights ago it was finally warm enough to open it and keep it open for the night…

and I also opened the screen door during the day for a little while to let some of that – not freezing – fresh air into the house;-)…

free…

22 Saturday Feb 2025

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the butterflies are free;-)…

the closed in piece is still in the centre, but the door has been removed…

butterflies were flitting about all over the space… yay…

there weren’t too many, but it may have been the end of the two week cycle…

so happy to see them free and all the people sitting in the space watching them…

arches…

21 Friday Feb 2025

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as you enter the Mediterranean biome there are dozens of amaryllis in various stages… some nearly done, while others are fully open… many with multiple petals…

absolutely gorgeous…

and then you step into the Babs Asper display area… twelve hundred orchids in one place;-)… heaven…

the Blooms in Winter display is so lovely, a perfect place to enjoy the beauty of orchids…

there are a number of arches to walk through and benches to sit on and enjoy the views…

orchids everywhere, beautiful shapes and sizes…

what a delight;-)…

can’t wait to go back;-)…

thinning…

20 Thursday Feb 2025

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had a wonderful time at The Leaf on Tuesday…

first I spent time at the registration desk where they had to make me a new card as mine had stopped working… apparently the website has been misbehaving a bit, so hopefully the new card will solve that issue;-)…

then we went through the biomes… there were a number of baskets of orchids throughout the Tropical biome…

very humid, and it was obvious that there had been a serious trim and thinning of many of the plants…

the cacao trees had been cutback and all the pods have been removed…

the koi were very active… while we were there one of the zoo keepers came along and fed them… clearly the fish were waiting for them, lol…

the dwarf banana is just starting with a new set of banana fingers…

my housemate pointed out the difference between the dwarf and regular bananas… the dwarf has the banana fingers coming out of the flower, whereas the full-size banana has a flower at the end and the fingers below…

there are always subtle changes in the Tropical biome each time I visit;-)…

eagle…

13 Thursday Feb 2025

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as I sat on the couch reading and occasionally looking out the front window, I spotted a large bird soaring high in the sky… at first I thought it was a pelican, but as I watched it more closely, I realized that it was a bald eagle…

got my camera out, but didn’t get a good shot, it was very fuzzy, lol…

watched it until it disappeared from view…

right behind that tree…

such a treat;-)…