10 Tuesday Nov 2020
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big girl pants, bird feeders, birds, blessed, downy, garden, moments, nature, photos, pictures, snow, suet, widow
sat in the sun in the living room and watched the birds at the feeders…
finally found one that likes the homemade suet;-)… yay for the downy woodpecker…
nice to see the house finches again…
I’ve only ever seen them in the garden…
18 Sunday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, happy, moments, nature, squirrel, tripod, widow, woodpecker
yesterday a lot of time was spent at the front window with the camera on the tripod…
first up was this cute downy woodpecker… often hard to get a photo as they move fairly quickly, but caught this shot…
the gray squirrels have been busy at the base of the feeder… their tails are so pretty…
and finally, the red squirrels were around… they are very cute but not too friendly with the rest of the critters…
such fun to watch all of these visitors;-)…
06 Tuesday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, crunch, Fall, garden, leaves, listen, moments, nature, noise, photos, pine siskins, pond, widow
spent a lovely afternoon in the garden before the rain…
pulled more leaves out of the pond… more are coming down into it every day…
I read and listened to the birds as they crunched through the leaves looking for bugs and seeds… considering how small they are, they made a lot of noise…
flocks of white-throated, song, and house sparrows, as well as pine siskins landed in the grass and around the pond where they would carefully jump from rock to rock to get a drink…
then off they went…
01 Thursday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Captain's Table, garden, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, trees, virginia creeper, visit, vivid, weather, widow
a dear friend brought my favourite fish and chips, from Captain’s Table and we had a great visit…
after she left I went out, filled the garbage bin with more goodies from the garage, and set it out for tomorrow’s pickup…
then I wandered around the yard and took some pictures of the Virginia creeper… it is a vivid and glorious colour although many of the leaves have already dropped…
I’ve been contemplating how lucky I am to have the time to spend on such activities;-)…
28 Monday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, clean-up, deciduous, Fall, garden, leaves, moments, nature, photos, pond, sky, weather, widow
it was dull, cool and windy yesterday with a few sprinkles of rain…
I made soup… seemed like a good thing to do on what sure felt like a fall day…
as I went up and down working on it I took some photos of the garden…
hard to tell from these pictures that I don’t have any deciduous trees in my yard, lol…
cleaning up the leaves with the lawnmower isn’t that big a problem, but getting them out of the pond takes quite a while;-(…
looks like I won’t be working on that until Thursday when the weather might be a bit better…
27 Sunday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, camera, Centre Court, court, dahlia, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pictures, widow
spent a few minutes with the Centre Court dahlias that I brought into the house yesterday…
they have really opened up since they came in and I had a bit of fun taking pictures…
trying to decide whether I like the dark background or the light one…
what do you think;-)…
10 Thursday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Canada geese, end of summer, family, geese, health, honk, moments, nature, photos, sky, walk, widow
lately the geese have flown over the house honking at all times of the day… it is a sure sign that summer is nearing its end, and a sound that I love to hear…
walked over by the Park this morning with my daughter (on the phone) and watched geese going over…
also took a few photos of a pair of geese who were right beside the walkway and happy to pose…
they were not in the least perturbed by people walking so close to them… not sure if that is good or bad…
08 Tuesday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy place, Highlights, Instagram, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, pond, sanctuary, Stories, widow
recently it was pointed out to me that I don’t show much of my garden on Instagram…
that is because I usually focus on close ups of the flowers in the garden, lol…
when I joined Instagram my focus was photos of flowers and I have continued to concentrate on that theme over the years with the odd picture of critters and chocolate included…
this is rather funny as I spend most of my days in this renewing space…
a few days ago I took a number of photos in the garden once all the cushions were out and then put them up in my Stories…
it was a fun process and I had to relearn how to do a few things;-)…
now there are Highlights of the garden… of course the funny thing is that the garden is not at its best as we are moving into Fall… maybe next year I can start earlier in the season so others can see this sanctuary throughout the entire summer…
I love my garden and wonder how this crazy summer would have been without it…
01 Tuesday Sep 2020
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, Botanical, Chihuly, garden, glass, memories, moments, nature, photos, remembering, widow
turned the page on my Chihuly calendar and saw this…
this picture was taken at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens in 2016…
here is a photo that I took at the same place;-)…
wonderful memory…
31 Monday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, pictures, pond, purple, walk, walkabout, widow
had a short walkabout this morning and took some photos of flowers in the garden…
the water lily looks to be opening for the last time… the other two are already sinking into the water…
the butterfly bush is still blooming every day…
the datura has some beautiful colours…
there are still a few morning glories blooming each day…
and finally, the sunflower is beginning to open… not sure if it will produce sunflower seeds…
good walk;-)…
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