10 Sunday Aug 2025
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amazing, big girl pants, blessed, bloom, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, open, time, treat, watched, weather, widow
the blue morning glories have taken off;-)…
yesterday I sat in the garden and watched three of them bloom over half an hour…
it is quite spectacular to almost see them opening as you watch…
06 Wednesday Nov 2024
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almost-open, big girl pants, blessed, bloom, blossom, flowers, food, hibiscus, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, surprise, treat, widow
in the process of moving the hibiscus and mandevilla, an almost-open bloom fell off…
the next morning I discovered that it was starting to open, even though it was laying in the dirt…
I grabbed it and put it in water and then spent the day watching as it opened and then began to close…
what a lovely treat…
I also found at least five buds on the plant… can hardly wait to see more flowers…
16 Friday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bloom, excitement, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pond, shock, sunshine, treat, water lilies, weather, widow
great excitement around here…
two water lilies are going to bloom at the same time… don’t think this has happened before;-)… what a treat…
this was one of them yesterday afternoon…
and this is how they both looked today…
I think if the sun had come out they might have both been completely open…
maybe tomorrow;-)…
06 Friday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bloom, cutting back, growing, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, scraggly, tidy, tree, trimmed, widow
spent some time trimming the hibiscus now that most of the buds have opened…
here it was before the haircut, kind of scraggly…
and after, being careful not to cut off any of the remaining buds;-)…
I think it looks much tidier and it is much easier to walk past it, lol… and then it had another bloom;-)…
here it is five years ago… so tiny…
and since then it has lost one whole stem…
06 Tuesday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, bloom, buds, flowers, garden, hardened, hibiscus, leaves, memories, moments, nature, plants, red, remembering, sunburn, weather, widow
my hibiscus only bloomed one time over the winter… usually it blooms at least twice…
I have had this one for at least three years and usually it loses its leaves when it comes into the house in the fall, and when it comes back into the garden in the spring…
this year I hardened it off and then put an umbrella over it so it wouldn’t get a sunburn…
it didn’t lose many leaves, but it also didn’t look like it was getting any buds…
a week or so ago, I spotted a few just starting…
yesterday, I spotted something red when I looked outside and there they were… the first two flowers…
yay… and there are lots more getting ready;-)…
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…
05 Thursday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, bloom, fuzzy, garden, pond, Technology, water lily, weather, widow
been rushing out to the garden every time I get home to see if the water lily has bloomed…
it has opened up quite a bit… weather has been cool which doesn’t help… not sure if it is finished or not…
and for whatever reason I haven’t been able to get good pictures… the yellow in the centre always turns fuzzy… weird…
25 Sunday Aug 2019
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spent some time out in the garden watching for the baby fish which I spotted a few days ago… I saw at least two sizes, so am eager to see how many there are…
they move really quickly, so the chances of getting any shots of them is slim…
but I did get a few pictures of the rest of the fish sunning themselves…
I’ve also been taking photos daily of the water lily bud as it slowly grows toward the surface of the pond…
really hoping I get to see it bloom…
12 Sunday May 2019
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big girl pants, birds, bloom, creeping Charlie, finches, flowers, garden, identify, sparrows, widow
spent some time in the garden reading this afternoon…
I’ve also been watching the birds…
yesterday I spotted a couple of finches and have been hoping to get a photo of them so I can identify them… I even took my camera upstairs and left it on the landing hoping I might spot them again when going up or down the stairs…
no luck so far, but there are at least four different types of sparrows out there;-)…
and the creeping Charlie is starting to bloom…
06 Thursday Sep 2018
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haven’t had any morning glories bloom for the last week…
so this morning I was happy to see two buds, although they weren’t open… I love how they unfurl from a tightly twisted centre…
I figured that they would open and then close before I got home after work…
was very pleased to discover eight blooms in the garden that were still open…
what a lovely surprise…
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