21 Monday Oct 2019
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I’m not sure why but I love bendy buses…
I’ve ridden in them in Ottawa, when visiting my daughter and son-in-law… there are lots of them there…
there haven’t been many here until recently…
for whatever reason they’ve been driving down the street by our office and I got a photo the other day…
not sure why, but when I see them they make me smile…
03 Thursday Oct 2019
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beloved, big girl pants, google, maps, moments, paper, Technology, widow
a few years ago my daughter introduced me to the Google maps app…
I have really found it to be helpful…
I’m a visual person and like to know where I am going, so looking up an address and then seeing a picture of the spot, or something close by is very reassuring…
I have to take back the crutches I rented from the hospital and now know exactly where I have to go… takes the stress out of finding a new place, lol…
reminded me of trying to find things in the past with a paper map… trying to unfold and refold, depending on the spot we were trying to get to… and rarely getting it put back correctly… sometimes there might have been some grumbling…
technology can be wonderful;-)…
29 Sunday Sep 2019
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Amaluna, big girl pants, Cirque du Soleil, friends, memories, moments, remembering, tent, treat, widow
last night I had dinner with a trio of special women, two of whom I just met, lol…
I had soup and five mini crab cakes with roasted garlic mayo, apple salad and mixed greens… very tasty… everyone else had scallops…
after a relaxing meal we travelled to the Cirque du Soleil tent on Kenaston to see Amaluna…
it was excellent… I’m always amazed at the flexibility of the performers and what they can make their bodies do… it was also fun to see a performance under the big top, which reminded me again of my first time at Cirque du Soleil in Montreal many years ago;-)…
a wonderful treat…
23 Monday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, cars, classic cars, odour, picture, smell, smoking, thunder, thunderbird, widow
tonight I followed a car with the licence plate “57TBIRD” all the way along Portage Avenue…
I couldn’t get a photo as I was driving, but I went online and found this photo of a thunderbird…
made me laugh a bit as the exhaust smelled terrible… the windows were open and at least one person was smoking a cigarette…
seemed like they were still living in 1957, lol…
also made me think of the thunderstorm on Friday night…
01 Sunday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, bikers, cell phone, haircut, motorcycles, posed, purple, walk, widow
walked over to get a trim at Ultracuts after the rain stopped yesterday… came out very nice…
on my walk back home I came across a group of bikers at the gas station… made me giggle to see one person checking out their cell phone as they waited for others to get gas…
I asked if I might take his photo and he said yes and posed, lol… then I asked if he would go back to looking at his phone, because that was the shot I wanted…
30 Friday Aug 2019
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our last day of camping was sunny but windy…
after a hike along the beach the decision was made not to take the boat out… the whitecaps were big…
got some great photos along the way…
so, we packed up and headed toward home… we stopped at Seven Sisters Falls on the way and had a lovely wander along the river…
beautiful scenery… a reminder of lovely visits that my beloved and I took to this spot… it was fun for the boys to see it for the first time…
while we were there the boys spotted many frogs… made me giggle because I often take photos of frogs… they use a much more hands-on approach…
29 Thursday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, garden, photos, rainbow, thunderstorm, watch, widow
the other evening there was a thunderstorm…
afterwards I took this photo out the front door… hadn’t been much sun for most of the day, so it was great to see this…
I was on the watch for a rainbow because the sky just had that look about it…
and then, this…
it was gorgeous and reminded me of the many rainbows we saw when we were on Maui… I think we saw at least one every day and one day we saw five…
20 Tuesday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, draw, English Garden, garden, Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, lilies, pond, water, water lilies, widow
spent a lot of time with the water lilies in the Gardens… went from one to another, viewing and taking pictures… many of them had tiny frogs sitting on the lily pads…
water has always been important to me and it always draws me in…
wasn’t sure that the two lilies in my pond were going to have flowers, but I remained hopeful…
and this morning I spotted a bud;-)… woo hoo… excited to see the flower…
18 Sunday Aug 2019
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airplane, big girl pants, bunny, clouds got in my way, moon set, photos, rising, sunrise, widow
had some fun taking photos of the moon setting and the sun rising…
ran back and forth from the front of the house, to the back to get the pictures…
amongst all the back and forth-ing, I also caught a shot of a plane and a bunny…
just a few days before that, I’d tried to get a shot of the full moon as it was setting, but clouds got in my way…
15 Thursday Aug 2019
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the other night when I got dropped off at home I couldn’t find my house key…
stood at the back of my friend’s vehicle searching through my bag in the dark, dumping everything out, with no success…
they waited while I turned on my iPhone flashlight and headed to the back of the house to dig out the spare key…
brought back lots of emotions because when my beloved died I realized that I couldn’t just call him if I lost or forgot it… found a spot to stash it so I would be safe if I came home without a way to get in…
rather happy I was able to find it as I haven’t needed to use it since I put it in its hiding spot…
it was a bit dirty, but worked;-)…
and the next morning I put it right back to keep me safe…
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