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24 Tuesday Feb 2015

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this morning I noticed how bright out it was on my drive to work… yay…

then, part way through the morning the sun came streaming through a colleague’s window and landed on her tulips… just gorgeous…



all of them have perked up since yesterday and look amazing… they have certainly brightened my day…

spent a wonderful few minutes wandering around the office taking pictures… I haven’t had a chance to look the shots over yet, but I had great fun… there were lots of tulips to check out…

flowers do make me happy…  

tulips…

23 Monday Feb 2015

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this morning our delivery of tulips arrived… they are part of the Lung Association campaign…

I love flowers and in the depths of winter really enjoy them… just yesterday I had to toss the daffodils I had purchased the week before…

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some beautiful purple and white ones…

amazing how a little flower can perk me up…

spent time in the living room tonight with my friends and got to admire my gorgeous orchid… it is really stunning…

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took this picture of a macadamia nut dark chocolate which was a treat from Costa Rica… first chocolate I’ve had since November… apparently I was so excited I couldn’t hold still, lol… very tasty…

organized…

22 Sunday Feb 2015

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had a wonderful day… got so much done…

my sleepover buddy and I had breakfast at the “A”… we drove because it was minus 45 out there…

then it was home to sort and label the Christmas boxes… emptied two or three and labeled all that remained… great to have the shelves organized…

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still didn’t find the sea shells… I can’t believe it…

dropped my helper off at the bus and did a few errands… picked up an extension cord for the car as I will be driving to work for the next few weeks and the temperature isn’t rising anytime soon, lol…

found two pieces of documentation I’ve been looking for, so was happy with that…

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moved the orchid to the coffee table and tried to find a spot for the new lamp I bought a few days ago…

been watching the Oscars for what seems like hours, but I can’t tear myself away…

enjoyed the sunshine…

sunlight…

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

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on Saturday the sun shone through the bedroom window for a good portion of the day…

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even though I was feeling blue I enjoyed the bright sunlight…

we have been enjoying more sunlight over the last week or so… there are days when the sun shines all day and other days when it is sunny and overcast throughout the day…

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got this great shot of the sunlight highlighting a portion of “the installation”, lol…

achy…

15 Sunday Feb 2015

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not feeling well today… every part of my body is aching… yesterday my neck and shoulders were sore, but today everything hurts…

went out and got groceries and had a nap after everything was put away… didn’t help…

know I’m sick because I had to tidy up the bedroom before climbing into bed… when I feel miserable I always want the bedroom to be organized… luckily it only took a few minutes…

picked up daffodils while I was out and have some of them in the bedroom to help perk up the space…

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the sun was shining on them for a portion of the afternoon…

thinking I will go straight to bed after supper and maybe get up around ten or eleven and go out for a hot tub… then back to bed…

this is how the hot tub looked yesterday when I was adding chemicals… it has been very cold but was lovely when I went out last night…

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lighter…

13 Friday Feb 2015

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this morning as I was waiting for my ride I took this picture out the front door…

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the sky was much brighter much earlier… very nice…

for a good portion of the day the sun shone through various offices…

tonight when I got home it was light and bright… it was hard to see the TV as the sun streamed through the window…

it is so exciting to see the light lasting longer every day…

installation…

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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the art installation is complete… it was finished on Saturday… we got the last of the twenty-nine framed waterlily photos up… and when I say we, I mean my friend, while I passed the odd thing to her…

she did an amazing job… not only are the pictures even and square, there are stickies in the bottom corners so they stay level, lol…

when I described a wall of water lilies she was thinking it might be a bit, shall we say, boring… now that it is all finished she agrees it was the right choice for me… I love water and the lily flowers too…

every time I walk down the stairs, I see something different…

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this one reminds me of a walk through the Leo Mol garden with George in the summer of 2011… the ducks were a complete surprise in the pond… had never seen them before or since…

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this one brought back my time at the Butchart Gardens in Victoria with my kids, just before they moved from Vancouver Island… we had been on the cruise to Alaska, and spent time in Seattle… finished off with a wonderful day in the Gardens and had tea at The Empress… so many memories…

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this one was taken in October of 2011 when we spent ages sitting on a bench admiring the pond… might have been one of our last walks in the Park…

last night my daughter gave the installation her stamp of approval… phew…

wonderful to have these different memories as I move up or down the stairs…

beauty…

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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the steps were covered with snow as I waited for my ride this morning… I do love the clean look after a fresh snowfall…

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when we arrived at the office I had to go out and take some pictures of the snow on the trees, they were so beautiful…

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after work my shoveler arrived and did a great job getting rid of the piles of snow… he did need to take a few breaks to warm up his fingers…

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then off we went with his mom to have supper at Moxies and pick up a game… they dropped me at home and headed to their place…

there is so much beauty around us and often we don’t even see it…

look around and take a moment to enjoy what you are seeing…

snow…

10 Tuesday Feb 2015

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this morning there was a light dusting of snow on the ground… made me take this picture of one of the cute cushions I purchased this year…

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throughout the day whenever I looked outside it was snowing…

when it was time to leave the office there was lots of snow to shovel off the car… the temperature was quite warm and the roads were very sloppy…

we stopped at the grocery store and picked up a few staples which was great because I hadn’t shopped on the weekend and had run out of veggies…

it is beautiful out… the world is white… it isn’t snowing right now but there is supposed to be more overnight…

only yesterday we had been talking about the amazing quiet after a snowfall… looking forward to that quiet when I get up in the morning…

depths…

09 Monday Feb 2015

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what a wonderful re-energizing evening with my ReImagining friends…

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had chicken pot pie from Costco and it was delicious… with broccoli salad and Greek salad… topped it off with a small piece of lovely light cheesecake for dessert…

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then a great conversation about the goodness in the depths of the darkness of winter…

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exhausted when I got there, but filled with peace and contentment when I left…

once home had a lovely hot tub to top off the evening…

fabulous way to start the week…