06 Wednesday Jan 2021
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and then, beautiful, big girl pants, craziness, moments, pray for peace, sadness, sunrise, Washington, widow
such a beautiful start to the day…
and then… craziness in Washington…
praying for peace everywhere…
21 Monday Dec 2020
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cold, home, memories, moments, sidewalk, snow, stay, weather, widow
what a beautiful view to wake up to on this first day of winter… everything was covered in a blanket of snow…
even more beautiful considering I don’t need to go out in it and can stay inside;-)…
well, I did shovel the sidewalk…
03 Thursday Sep 2020
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adjust, band, beautiful, big girl pants, bracelet, Fitbit, purple, shopping, snazzy, Technology, widow
a few weeks ago I ordered a couple of new bands for my Fitbit… they arrived and were excellent…
one is very fancy, but needed to be adjusted… a few days ago I cut off a portion of it, but it was still too large…
yesterday I tried again and now it fits perfectly and looks great;-)…
very snazzy…
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…
29 Saturday Aug 2020
14 Tuesday Jul 2020
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, flowers, garden, happily, happy, memories, moments, nature, plants, purple, retirement, The Dahlia Expert, time, widow
enjoying time in the garden…
the dahlias are doing well and happily they are opening at different times so there should be some blooming throughout the weeks, rather than all at once and then nothing…
when I planted them I put the plastic bag they came in into the pot and now I can’t read the name, lol…
so far a purple one has bloomed next to the house…
and then a delicate white with purple tones bloomed… 3 flowers last week and 3 are blooming right now…
I cut them and put them in a vase to enjoy in the house…
currently that plant has 4 more buds on it… looks like another white one is starting to open… looking forward to how beautiful it will look when it is completely open…
that leaves two still to develop buds… can’t wait to see what colour they turn out to be… when I ordered them I asked for purple and white varieties…
with my retirement, I am enjoying the ability to spend each day in the garden all summer long…
13 Monday Jul 2020
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, bloom, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, sunburned, widow
yesterday the hibiscus finally bloomed for the first time in many months…
it lives in the house over the winter and hadn’t flowered since Christmas…
it was really unhappy when I moved it outside for the summer… the first few days after the move were very hot and it got sunburned… since then many of the leaves have turned yellow and fallen off…
last week I spotted the beginning of the first buds… and a few days ago the first one started to open…
yesterday it was fully open and even after the rain it looked gorgeous…
and there were three blooms ready to open…
and this is what I saw this morning…
nature really is amazing… and beautiful…
11 Saturday Jul 2020
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, memories, moments, morning glories, nature, pictures, purple, retirement, seriously, widow
the morning glories are opening everywhere… and everyday…
as I was looking back in my posts I noticed that the first morning glory of 2018 was on August 8… planting them from seeds early has made a huge difference as the first one this year was June 27;-)…
they look amazing… as I am home all the time I get to enjoy they more than when I worked as they would be closed by the time I got home at the end of the day…
had to giggle when one went right between two of the boards on the bench around the deck… it seriously wanted to get to the other side, lol.. so cute…
12 Friday Jun 2020
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, common frog, fish, frog, froggie, garden, hiding, leaves, lilies, lily pads, moments, nature, pond, quiet, time, widow
saw the frog a number of times yesterday while I was listening to a program on my iPhone…
it has hopped past me a few times over the last while but never when I have a camera in my hand…
yesterday froggie was out sunning on the rocks around the edge of the pond… when it jumps in it swims across in just a few seconds…
according to research it appears to be a common frog… interesting, as for the last few years we had leopard frogs…
got some nice pictures;-)…
and another exciting thing is that the water lily leaves are just starting to rise above the water… this first photo was from last night and only the top corner of one lily pad was peeking out of the water…
now four lily pads are above water on one plant and two on the second plant…
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;-)…
