11 Friday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlia, flowers, garden, iris, memories, moments, nature, photos, plants, purple, widow
last year I almost missed this little iris… so I was watching for it this year…
it sits right up next to a flower pot which I hope is going to have a dahlia growing in it…although currently there is no sign of said dahlia;-(…
but the iris is beautiful…
09 Wednesday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, columbine, downpour, flowers, garden, memories, moments, nature, purple, rain barrel, self-seeded, thunderstorm, weather, widow
happy I took a walk around the garden before the thunderstorm…
this is a self-seeded columbine… they have wandered around the shade garden over the years… so far this year I’ve found two…
we really got a good downpour… I watched it pour over the water barrel as it was coming down so hard and fast…
not sure how the flowers faired afterwards, lol…
08 Tuesday Jun 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, goldfish, memories, moments, nature, open, pictures, poppies, widow
woke up to twelve open poppies yesterday…
was quite surprised as they usually open one or two at a time…
they look lovely, particularly with the reflection in the pond…
the goldfish add to the pretty orange colours, lol…
can’t stop taking photos of them…
29 Saturday May 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, couple, ducks, friends, garden, mallards, moments, nature, purple, walk, widow
today I spotted a few visitors in the neighbourhood…
all day my baby bunny friend has been popping up in the garden… I think we are becoming friends, lol…
now it sits closer to me and for longer periods;-)…
later in the day, as I was getting my steps in, I saw a mallard pair sitting under the pine tree next door… not sure I’ve ever seen ducks this close to the house…
beautiful couple…
28 Friday May 2021
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, computer, flowers, happy, moments, morning glory, nature, photos, purple, stickers, widow
yesterday I received two sets of stickers made from my photos, that had been ordered a while ago…
after cleaning off one that came on the computer, thanks to rubbing alcohol and an old facecloth, I added one of each ;-)…
think I’m liking how they look…
07 Friday May 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, geese, goose, looking, moments, nature, neighbour, photos, pictures, Spring, surprise, widow
this morning, as I was starting to walk around the living and dining rooms to check on all the seedlings, I noticed my next door neighbour taking photos… I looked across the street at her car, thinking something had damaged it, but it was fine…
I looked at the field and along the neighbour’s fence but there was nothing there…
I tried to look down the lane but there really isn’t a good angle from where I was…
I started to walk away and noticed something on the roof across the street…
there was a goose standing there… clearly what she was taking pictures of…
I got a few photos before the camera battery announced it was exhausted, and suddenly another goose flew toward it and away, maybe from my roof, and then the first goose followed…
what a surprise…
05 Wednesday May 2021
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02 Sunday May 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blanket, blessed, feeders, garden, juncos, moments, nature, sorrows, time, watching, weather, widow
spent the most wonderful hour in the garden…
it was chilly, but I’d seen numerous birds at the feeders so I moved a lounge chair next to the garage door, wrapped myself up in a blanket and sat still and watched for the visitors coming to the feeders…
there were juncos, white throated sparrows, maybe a song sparrow, a couple of chickadees, and either male and female purple or house finches… they were all over the feeders and on the ground…
there were also two mice… which is okay, as long as they are outside…
I was thrilled to sit and watch and didn’t take out the camera until just before I came in…
this is one of my favourite pictures…
16 Friday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, charger, family, moments, photos, pictures, shopping, Technology, widow
I’ve been spending a bit of time with my Olympus camera, getting to know it again…
it had been sitting on the shelf for a long time because I had misplaced the charger…
my son-in-law was able to find one online for me and I recently received it…
I dug out the manual, read through it and have started to take more pictures… I never thought it worked as well as my Nikon, but maybe I didn’t give it a chance, lol…
we shall see…
07 Wednesday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, colourful, Facebook, learning, live feed, moments, nature, optik, Swarovski Optik, Technology, treat, widow
spent a wonderful hour this morning watching live bird feeds from Sri Lanka, India, Africa, and Latin America on Facebook via Swarovski Optik Birding…
what a treat…
came across this by accident and not sure how often they do these live feeds…
it appears they sell some very upscale binoculars and likely providing the feeds brings them customers, but it was lovely to watch…
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