20 Wednesday Nov 2019
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beautiful, beauty, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, hibiscus, moments, nature, orchid, plants, purple, surrounding, widow
beauty is surrounding me… blessed…
first thing in the morning the orchids and hibiscus greet me… it is exciting to see which ones are getting ready to open… wondering how many might open at once…
at the office more orchids are blooming…
more are getting buds;-)…
08 Friday Nov 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, comment, flowers, garden, green, office, orchid, plants, purple, whisperer, widow
recently a few people have commented on the plants in the office…
my space is filled with orchids, violets and other greenery…
I always give credit to our plant whisperer who keeps the green things extra green…
I also mention how much I enjoy my orchids… sometimes they bloom a second and third time… it is so exciting when that happens…
lovely to spend my day in a garden;-)..
11 Friday Oct 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, garden, moments, nature, photos, shovelling, sidewalk, snow, walk, widow
it started snowing yesterday morning and has barely stopped since then… I’ve spent the day taking pictures…
around 7:30 I took a few photos out the front and back…
a bit later I went outside to shovel the front sidewalk and the back deck that leads to the garage and hot tub… that was around 9:30…
I looked out the front door at noon to see this…
hard to tell that I shovelled, lol…
shots from 2 and 7…
not going to look anymore tonight, lol…
will have to check it out in the morning… am going to have to find someone to shovel the driveway;-)…
18 Thursday Jul 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, bird, camera, colleagues, finch, garden, happy, lush, purple, purple finch, rain, song, widow
this morning I spent some time in the garden before heading to work…
we’ve had a fair bit of rain over the last while and it is looking rather lush…
of course the grass needs to be cut, lol…
as I was sitting enjoying the view, the purple finch came by for a snack… such a beautiful bird… also has a lovely song…
I got a few good photos, then left my camera at work…
one of my amazing colleagues picked it up and brought it to me… this is particularly great as I don’t work tomorrow and was going to have to go in and get it;-)…
I am looking forward to spending some quality time in the garden tomorrow;-)…
09 Tuesday Jul 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, boat, camping 2019, camping day 3, family, fishing, memories, Nutimik, rain, sturgeon, weather, widow
well, the weather has not been particularly cooperative, sigh…
it was a bit overcast when we first got up but we decided to head out as it wasn’t raining…. kept the cover half on so we’d be ready if the rain came, lol…
saw a loon as we were leaving the bay… caught a few fish… sadly, not me… also saw a three-foot sturgeon swim beside us;-)…
spent about four hours on the water before it started to spit… the scenery is beautiful…
came back to the campsite and had a picnic under the canopy…
then there were naps and more games… supper was tacos in a bag… perfect easy prep on a rainy evening…
back inside for the evening… some are watching a movie on a phone and others playing games…
wishing for sunshine tomorrow;-)…
09 Sunday Jun 2019
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, dahlia, flowers, garden, happy, hibiscus, mandevilla, planted, plants, pond, purple, rain, theme, weather, widow
had some fun in the garden on Saturday… the forecast was for thunderstorms and rain during the day so I got out early to plant the purchases from the day before…
trying to stick to the purple and white theme although the dahlia might be a bit on the pink side;-)…
three pots planted, a few baskets hung, the tomato and mandevilla placed… also brought out the hibiscus…
still need to bring out the Japanese Maple, but going to wait just a bit longer so it doesn’t struggle with the move…
it is looking pretty good… now just waiting to get that back flowerbed cleaned up…
missing my beloved as I work away in the yard…
22 Wednesday May 2019
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, flowers, garden, maintenance, plants, widow
been thinking about what to plant in the garden this year…
wondering about doing something a bit different… maybe only choose three or four types of plants and using them in multiples…
have someone coming over to see if they might help me with the maintenance of the garden… excited to see how that turns out…
14 Tuesday May 2019
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12 Friday Apr 2019
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, grandma, groceries, Maui day two, memories, moments, rain, rainbows, relaxing, shopping, sunrise, walk, widow
we went to bed early last night because we were exhausted…
this morning we woke up twenty minutes before the sunrise… so we dressed quickly, and headed out to an iron bench on the property…
it was cool and very windy but we had fun watching ships and outrigger canoes as well as the sun shining on the clouds, lol…
we came in just as it began to rain… and then we saw five rainbows, one after the other, moving across the sky…
we took it gently and went to Whole Foods for snacks and breakfast items over the next week… always fun to see what items are available at the store in different countries… fresh juice and the view…
lunch and off to Paia… we wandered the town, saw surfers and large waves, tried mahi-mahi and had a quiet drive back…
we stopped for some avocado toast and packaged up a bit of salt for the eggs we picked up earlier… reminded both of us of George’s mom always slipping any excess jam or ketchup or whatever into her bag when we took a trip to the east coast many years ago, lol…
19 Tuesday Mar 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, bright, campaign, cancer, Daffodil Campaign, daffodils, diagnosis, flowers, happy, joy, Spring, widow
Spring flowers bring me so much joy…
on Sunday I picked up some daffodils for the house… as well as a bouquet for the office, a pot of mini roses and the cutest plant covered in blue flowers…
yesterday afternoon we had daffodils delivered at the office as part of the Canadian Cancer Society Daffodil Campaign...
this was how they looked at 4:30 yesterday…
here is how they looked at 8:30 am this morning…
open and sunshiny…
nice when a campaign raises funds and brightens people’s days…
having gone through a cancer diagnosis, I appreciate every opportunity to support the cause…
