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weeds…

29 Monday Sep 2014

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been missing George a lot lately… maybe it has to do with how bad the garden looks, lol…

haven’t done any weeding for weeks and haven’t touched the side garden all summer…

this sunflower has grown up from seeds tossed out of the feeder by the birds… George would never have let that happen… he spent time nearly every day weeding the various beds and they usually looked tidy…

wild sunflower...

wild sunflower…

of course, the purple coneflowers have survived since I planted them last year… George wasn’t here to pull them out as they popped through the soil in the spring… if you know this plant you will know that it does look similar to a weed… George would pull them out every spring after we had planted them the previous year…

purple cone flower...

purple cone flower…

it got to be a family joke…

just yesterday the little boys were asking me to read The Pink Giraffe to them and I couldn’t bear to… it was one of the last books he read to them before he died… maybe next time they ask I will be able to read it to them…

gone…

28 Sunday Sep 2014

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looking out the window this morning the sky was overcast and the temperature had fallen… the warm weather has gone…

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IMG_8552.JPGthe remainder of the day wasn’t any better… one minute it would be pouring and the next just overcast…

had to run out and pick up a few things for our dinner for my daughter and her husband who celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary last Thursday…

IMG_8554.JPGgot a picture of the tree that has lost all of its leaves…

we had steak, lobster, twice-stuffed potatoes, mushrooms and salad… and for dessert we made s’mores cooked on a fire pot in the dining room…

seemed like a busy day…

purple…

27 Saturday Sep 2014

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spent some time by the pond this morning… weather was beautiful and I hadn’t been in the garden for ages…

IMG_8543.JPGit was quiet as the pump has been out of the pond for over a week… took pictures of the fish which was a great opportunity as the water was still…

IMG_8542.JPGthen I headed out to get my hair purpled…

IMG_8539.JPGgot home, had a snack and then my daughter and I went for pedicures…

IMG_8540.JPGyou will have to guess which foot is mine, lol…

she helped me clean out the freezer and on our way to the garbage I realized that my pond guy had been and had the water running again and I was very happy…

IMG_8541.JPGthink the fish were happy as well…

IMG_8544.JPGwonderful day…

500…

26 Friday Sep 2014

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yesterday I got my 500th Like… pretty cool…

when I woke up my ear was completely blocked and it took quite a while to start to hear… went to the clinic by the office and after they cleaned out my ear (ugh), they decided I have an infection and now I have a prescription for drops for the next week… so, much as I hate liquid in my ears, guess I’ll be learning how to get the drops in… yuck…

this morning I took a few pictures of the trees down the street…

IMG_8434.JPGthe leaves on the ground were a lovely shade of yellow and orange…

IMG_8435.JPGvery happy it is Friday…

autumn…

25 Thursday Sep 2014

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another beautiful day… sun shone the whole time…

IMG_8425.JPGseemed like it was bigger and had moved over in the sky, lol…

always amazes me how morning glories seem to be lit from within…

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IMG_8421-1.JPGthe hibiscus has both a red and a yellow bloom today…

IMG_8423.JPGcolours in the garden are changing every day…

IMG_8424.JPGI do love the myriad of colour that autumn brings…

leaves…

24 Wednesday Sep 2014

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was noticeably darker this morning when I got up…

only this one morning glory bloomimg…

IMG_8383.JPGonce I got out of the driveway, I stopped to take this picture of the trees down the street…

IMG_8384.JPGyou can see a few leaves under it… I was happy with how the flag was waving too…

when I turned onto the street tonight I stopped once again and got this picture…

IMG_8385.JPGtons of leaves dropped throughout the day… apparently it is Fall…

lingering…

23 Tuesday Sep 2014

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this is a strange cold… coughing comes and goes… my head feels like cotton and at night I feel like I still have my headset on… some days it seems like I’m improving and then it rears its cold head… lingered long enough…

forgot to turn my alarm on last night so I woke up half an hour late… still had to stop and check for morning glories, lol…

IMG_8371.JPGyesterday there were five blossoms, today just this one…

at the end of the day this hibiscus was smiling at me…

IMG_8372.JPGhad the windows down and the moon roof open and enjoyed the 28 degree temperature… first day of Fall…

fall…

22 Monday Sep 2014

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had a wonderful morning in the garden and down the street…

IMG_8358.JPGwas working a later shift, so spent a couple of hours in the sunshine… watched the morning glories open…

IMG_8359.JPGthe hibiscus was beautiful…

IMG_8365.JPGwhile I was standing at the pond this squirrel came by and gave me a good look before leaving…

IMG_8366.JPGand this chickadee came to the feeder right beside me… very strange because usually they are quite nervous of anyone in the area…

IMG_8361.JPGwandered down to the park at the end of the street to get some pictures of the Virginia creeper, which was spectacular… took a lot of shots…

as I walked back up the street spent some time with this gorgeous tree…

IMG_8364.JPGfinal shot was up through the tree…

IMG_8362.JPGwhat a great time…

colours…

21 Sunday Sep 2014

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on my way home Friday night I really noticed the changing colour of the leaves…

this picture shows the Virginia creeper in the garden… more and more red…

IMG_8319.JPGI’ve also noticed leaves coming down everywhere… besides yellow ones drifting down in the garden, I’ve noticed piles where they have dropped en masse under some trees…

the trees across the creek are looking beautiful as fall advances…

IMG_8320.JPG George and I used to take a drive on a Sunday in the fall to see the beautiful colours along the highway…

I don’t remember dreams, but lately I’ve been dreaming about him… woke up a few days ago thinking he was downstairs making breakfast… took a few minutes for my new reality to sink in…

IMG_8321.JPGmore colours looking out the windows… feels as though fall is hurtling towards us…

cloudy…

19 Friday Sep 2014

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on my way to work this morning I took a few pictures of the lovely cloud formations…

IMG_8286.JPGluckily had to stop at a few lights so I was able to get good pics… often when I see something, the traffic flows so smoothly that I don’t have the needed opportunity…

there were no morning glories at home, but when I arrived at the office a colleague had picked a beautiful one from her garden and brought it in…

IMG_8287.JPGgot a shot of a bendy bus as I was sitting through five lights at Portage Avenue… knew that we had a couple here, but hadn’t seen any:-)…

IMG_8288.JPGit was just before five and the traffic was absolutely crazy… had been overcast all day and started to pour just as I turned onto Portage and it rained all the way home…

finally starting to feel better…