07 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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berries, big girl pants, blessed, garden, lily of the valley, moments, nature, plants, purple, widow
the other day I took a photo of some beautiful Virginia creeper berries… they were climbing on the cedars on the back lane side of the garden and were a bright purple…
today I spotted these red berries in amongst the lily of the valley…
I’ve never seen berries on lily of the valley before…
22 Sunday Sep 2019
Posted in health, life, nature, Photography, Uncategorized
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berries, big girl pants, birds, cane, Fall, flicker, nature, virginia creeper, widow, window, woodpeckers
for the last few days I’ve been watching the flickers on the roof of the garage enjoying the berries on the Virginia creeper… it has been a nice distraction as I go up and down the stairs, still using the cane…
they seem to gather around this time of year to fill up on ants and berries before heading south…
the other interesting thing about them is although they are woodpeckers, usually I see them on the ground, or in this case, on the garage roof…
09 Wednesday Jan 2019
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
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beloved, berries, big girl pants, frost, garage, help, kindness, meals, project, Tea, widow, window, wreath
in December we had a Random Acts of Kindness contest at work… we added berries to the wreath whenever we did something kind, or saw someone else doing something kind… at the end of the contest we sent a donation to a local charity…
have been thinking a lot about kindness lately…
from friends taking meals to support others…
to someone bringing me a cup of tea while I was deep in a project…
to the person who brought me my favourite lunch treat for no reason…
whenever I see frost on my garage window I remember the kindness of someone who invited me to their house not long after my beloved died… the frost on the window in their garage was stunning and I will always remember taking some pictures of it…
people are kind…
29 Tuesday Aug 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, travel, Uncategorized
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berries, big girl pants, exploding, flowers, garden, hot, laugh, memories, morning glories, pergola, plants, purple, table, treadmill, water, widow
had to skip walking on the treadmill this morning so I could water the plants in the garden…
it has been amazingly hot over the last few days… I don’t like to water in the evening, so was happy to take the time early to get the job done…
the morning glories are exploding everywhere… the ones that are trying to come up through the table make me laugh…
for years we have had Virginia creeper growing along the north side of the garage and it never had berries… it has grown over the pergola into the south side and since that has happened it started to produce the berries…
this morning I got a few nice shots of some of them…
too bad we can’t eat them, lol…
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