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installation…

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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art installation, big girl pants, Butchart Gardens, memories, Park, waterlilies

the art installation is complete… it was finished on Saturday… we got the last of the twenty-nine framed waterlily photos up… and when I say we, I mean my friend, while I passed the odd thing to her…

she did an amazing job… not only are the pictures even and square, there are stickies in the bottom corners so they stay level, lol…

when I described a wall of water lilies she was thinking it might be a bit, shall we say, boring… now that it is all finished she agrees it was the right choice for me… I love water and the lily flowers too…

every time I walk down the stairs, I see something different…

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this one reminds me of a walk through the Leo Mol garden with George in the summer of 2011… the ducks were a complete surprise in the pond… had never seen them before or since…

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this one brought back my time at the Butchart Gardens in Victoria with my kids, just before they moved from Vancouver Island… we had been on the cruise to Alaska, and spent time in Seattle… finished off with a wonderful day in the Gardens and had tea at The Empress… so many memories…

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this one was taken in October of 2011 when we spent ages sitting on a bench admiring the pond… might have been one of our last walks in the Park…

last night my daughter gave the installation her stamp of approval… phew…

wonderful to have these different memories as I move up or down the stairs…

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on the drive

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Butchart Gardens, drive

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Diary Day 11

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Butchart Gardens, diary, movie, pictures

got up around 7… sunny and warm outside… beautiful day to spend time in the Butchart Gardens… had a good sleep…

got in the car,picked up McDonalds and were on our way to the Gardens…

we walked around them for six wonderful hours, taking pictures and admiring the scenery… we had ice cream, lunch and Gelati while we were there….

had a nap when we got back to the hotel and then rented a movie and ate snacks…

went to The Keg for dinner and made it back to the hotel rather late as the service was very slow…

having a small glass of Baileys as I finish up today’s post…

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