24 Wednesday May 2023
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had a lovely walk on Tuesday;-)…
spotted lilacs everywhere I went, and enjoyed the scent…
and also saw a beautiful tree covered in white blossoms…
and finally spotted one of the mallard families;-)…
26 Tuesday Apr 2022
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April, big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, Central Park, cherry, cherry tree, flowers, Kingfisher Spa, moments, nature, pictures, widow
recently I came across a couple of pictures of cherry trees from April a number of years ago…
this first photo, which I took at the Filberg Festival in Courtenay, BC in 2011, won us a trip to Kingfisher Oceanside Resort and Spa to enjoy their Pacific Mist hydropath…
this photo was taken in New York, NY, in 2016… I think it was in Central Park..
cherry trees are just so beautiful, and clearly April is a blooming month for them;-)…
it is fun when memories remind me of special times…
10 Thursday Oct 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, move, pictures, timing, weather, widow
the hibiscus made it into the house and was looking great… so far…
still had lots of buds and I was eagerly waiting to see if they would bloom because sometimes the buds fall off after a move…
the above photos were taken on Tuesday and the ones below were taken tonight…
it was so wonderful to have these blooming today as it has been snowing since early this morning, sigh…
guess the timing was good, lol…
09 Monday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, blossoms, flowers, garden, happy place, mandevilla, moments, morning glories, purple, rain, widow
got this shot of the morning glories before leaving for the office…
not only can you see the bloom that opened this morning (purple) but yesterday’s one as well (pink)… even a few mandevilla blossoms are visible…
good thing because it has been raining since leaving the office…
18 Sunday Sep 2016
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bed, big girl pants, blossoms, camera, Costco, dropping, Emmys, Pokémon, Safeway, sweater, widow
had some fun with my camera first thing this morning as I took pictures of the flowers in the house…
we will see if they end up dropping the rest of the blossoms or whether they will happily open…
beautiful hibiscus flower…
mandevilla blooms in the hanging basket which I set into the gardenia plant… hope they all make it through the winter…
grocery shopped at Safeway, dropped off the bags, and then went to Costco with my kids…
always find a few things there that I really need… today it was a cute Tommy Hilfiger sweater and some fancy olive oils…
great to have supper together again… and both my son-in-law and grandson did a few jobs around the house for me…
now I am curled up on my bed watching the Emmys and catching the odd Pokemon…
06 Friday May 2016
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big girl pants, blossoms, comfortable, dandelions, dentist, family, Friday, friend, growth, new reality, widow
took out the recycling and garbage this morning and had to come back in and get my camera to take some close ups of the stunning apricot tree…
beautiful…
was back at the dentist for a filling, sigh… am certainty getting better but still find the whole thing stressful… the dentist was worried about my gag reflex (which is quite special, lol) due to the position of the cavity, but it went well…
as I walked back to the car I took some shots of the hedges as the leaves are bursting forth with new growth…
mid-morning the downtown streets were fairly quiet, so no one looked at me oddly as I stopped to take these pictures…
noticed these flowers at the side of the house and thought of all the times my girls brought me bouquets of them…
my grandsons have also brought me similar bouquets, lol…
as part of my Fridays off I have been trying to meet friends for a meal… today I met up with a very special young woman and her daughter… we rarely have a chance to get together, so it was a great treat…
had those big girl pants on as I went to the restaurant half an hour early and sat enjoying a cup of tea while I waited for them…
lots of personal growth taking place… was comfortable being there on my own, which is a huge step…
met my daughter and showed her a fire table that might work in the garden…
been looking for just the right one for a long time… this might be it…
had a great call with my sister-in-law and am excited to see her over the weekend as she comes to town for Mother’s Day…
interesting how growth happens… all of a sudden it seems the leaves burst open and at other times it seems like nothing is changing at all…
look forward to the changes in me as I move forward in this new reality… even after four years it still feels fresh…
03 Tuesday May 2016
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this morning I got a few shots of my new hibiscus…
it is so lovely to see blossoms first thing in the morning…
flowers always make me happy…
recently someone mentioned that whenever there are flowers around, people notice and comment in a positive way… flowers add warmth to any space… maybe that’s why I like them so much…
another thing that makes me happy is seeing changes in nature…
as I walked up the street tonight I noticed the greening of one of the trees by the creek…
spent time tonight as well enjoying those hibiscus blossoms…
24 Thursday Mar 2016
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. soup, big girl pants, blossoms, bunny, carrots, chocolate, Easter, fun, headache, orchid, potatoes, Souper Thursday, sweet, widow
last night I made soup for today’s Souper Thursday… stopped on our way home and picked up sweet potatoes, carrots and coconut milk… this sweet potato and carrot soup is really easy…
it turned out very well… veggies, salad, crackers and fruit appeared and we had a great lunch… and everyone enjoyed it… every last drop was eaten…
a while ago I ordered a number of chocolate bunnies for a fundraiser, so this morning the Easter Bunny dropped them off at each person’s desk…
made some cute little notes to go with them…
such fun…
spent a few minutes admiring my beautiful new orchid this morning… the older one still has four or five blossoms on it…
although I’ve been struggling with a headache it was a pretty sweet day…
01 Tuesday Sep 2015
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, canna, garden, gift, happy, pond, precious, simple, water lily
a gorgeous evening…
the temperature right now is 27 degrees and I am sitting on the back deck by the pond enjoying the sounds…
well not really… as I write this an ambulance is going by and the neighbour is running his shopvac, lol… up until that point I was listening to the waterfall and chickadees flitting about the garden and watching a little red squirrel dash across the main deck…
the canna is blooming again… bright and beautiful, it was the first thing I saw when I looked out the window this morning…
I am continually surprised by how much happiness a blossom or two can give me…
on a recent walk through the English Garden at the Park I got a lovely shot of some Lisianthus…
next year I am going to grow some, although I’m not sure where I will find plants…
there were very few water lilies open but this one caught my eye…
some of them have the most interestingly patterned leaves while others are simply green…
simple things really do make me happy…
once again, as I spend these precious minutes steeped in the beauty of a late summer evening, watching the fish swim around the pond as the light fades, I realize what a gift my life is and how blessed I am…
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