eventful…

29 Sunday Dec 2019

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what an eventful day yesterday was…

in the morning my daughter and I headed to Bulk Barn for bird seed and then on to Mer Bleue where it was way too slippery for a walk but we spent a lovely time feeding the birds from our hands… such fun;-)…

chickadees came and went from the surrounding trees… we saw blue jays, two types of woodpeckers, a nuthatch and maybe a partridge…

it was great fun… my daughter took the picture of the chickadee looking at me, lol…

then we picked up my son-in-law and his mom and went to the Canadian Museum of Nature where we saw exhibits about the arctic, the earth and Canadian birds… and we spent some quality time in the butterfly exhibit…

here are a few of my favourite photos…

birds AND butterflies…

finished the day off with a BeaverTail;-)…

those were for sharing, I only had half of one;-)…

patiently…

04 Sunday Aug 2019

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had a fun time in the garden this morning…

when I walked out I frightened the baby bunny, but it came back a bit later for a snack…

and then the squirrels started running around… one was digging in the hibiscus pot… not sure what was going on, but went over and encouraged it to leave, lol…

a gray squirrel and a little red squirrel chased one another all around the garden to decide who got to be at the feeder… the red squirrel won that particular round…

the sparrows were in and out of the pond as they had drinks and baths…

and I spent the longest time waiting patiently for a black swallowtail butterfly, that was flitting around the garden, to land so that I could take a photo… eventually I got a few good shots…

two or three cabbage butterflies fly through the garden on a regular basis, but I’ve yet to catch one sitting still long enough to get a picture…

rays…

02 Friday Aug 2019

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we spent a short amount of time in the butterfly garden… one of us liked it more than the other…

from there we went to visit the stingrays… what fun that was… not too many visitors so we were able to view them from all around the pool… they feel a bit bumpy on top… stayed there for a long time, lol…

and finally we went for a wagon ride… we were the only passengers;-)… Bob and Tom took us for a nice tour of the area…

ended our visit with ice cream… delicious on such a hot and sunny day…

forty-nine…

01 Thursday Aug 2019

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I spent the day with my youngest grandson and we had lots of fun… we also talked a fair bit about Grandpa…

he was just three when my beloved died so it is quite amazing what he remembers, although I do try to talk about him often…

hard to figure out how to commemorate what would have been our forty-ninth wedding anniversary…

one of the things we did was find the memory stones that my eldest daughter had put into one of the walkways at Assiniboine Park…

he was even happy to do some selfies which doesn’t always happen…

we saw the butterflies, stingrays, snow leopards, and had a wagon ride… it was hot out… we remembered visits to the zoo with Grandpa and the fun we had…

my eldest grandson arrived after work and we barbecued steak and lobster for our supper…

great way to spend this special day…

WWTB day 2…

30 Saturday Jun 2018

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another fun day…

after breakfast the older mowed the grass, whipper snipped, and we moved the rocking chair… we will see how it feels in the new spot…

then we headed over to the Zoo to check out the wolves and big bugs…

it was overcast but not too hot… we also stayed quite a while in the butterfly garden, sitting still and hoping that a butterfly would land on us…

stopped at Indigo to pick up some reading material… was all excited that they wanted books, but they meant graphic novels, ie comics, lol… although the boys did tell me they read all the words…

lunch at Subway and home to play video games and watch tv…

organized twice stuffed potatoes to go with our country style spareribs as this was the request…

they are currently playing football in the park…

planning to watch fireworks at eleven just a few streets over…

and sleep in tomorrow…

insecta…

04 Tuesday Jul 2017

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I’ve noticed quite a few dragonflies flitting around the garden recently…

on Sunday, when I was taking pictures of the water lilies in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, I caught a dragonfly on the lily pad…

and yesterday I spent a short time in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… it was sunny so the butterflies that were there were very active…

there weren’t many there but I got a few pictures…

butterflies and dragonflies are part of the family of insecta…

I might have a small collection of memorabilia, but no actual butterflies or dragonflies…

hoping for some monarchs in the garden…

butterflies…

19 Friday Aug 2016

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had some fun in the garden…

my grandson came over and worked at cleaning out the side garden… already looking much better…

the canna which over wintered in the house and looked rather sad this spring is blooming beautifully…

the Japanese Maple is very happy behind the waterfall…

caught these two butterflies flitting about…

they landed for an instant…

found two caterpillars and put them in the parsley… hope they are still there tomorrow…

butterflies…

08 Monday Aug 2016

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this morning I was closing the curtains in the dining room and caught sight of a swallowtail on one of the hostas…

so pretty, but I didn’t move fast enough to get a picture…

part way through the morning my daughter texted me to see if I could FaceTime with her… very unusual for her to want to do that when I am at work, but I said okay…

she wanted to show me the Monarch that was just emerging from its chrysalis… she knows how I love them… a neighbour of hers had brought them a twig with some chrysalides on it so the family could watch the process…

around noon she sent me a picture of them letting it go in the backyard…

it reminded me of the August that I was on vacation and was able to document the caterpillars growing, turning into the chrysalides, and then emerging as butterflies…

I made a wonderful PowerPoint of the experience and keep thinking I should make it into a picture book…

we didn’t see many butterflies last week at the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, but did get a picture of this little one…

zoo…

04 Thursday Aug 2016

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right after work was picked up by the kids and headed to the Assiniboine Park Zoo for a special member only evening…

especially nice to get to spend time there in the evening, as the zoo usually closes at 5…

we finally managed to check out the dinosaurs…

all of the food was half price so it made for a very reasonable option for dinner…

and treats;-)…

we saw a couple of bears, one of the horses and finished at the Butterfly Garden…

checking out the variety of chrysalis… not too many butterflies to see today… likely because it was cooling off and the sun wasn’t out…

always manage to find a flower to get a picture of, lol

great way to end my week…

persherons…

05 Saturday Sep 2015

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great fun at the zoo today… the little boys and I got to check out the barn and go on a lovely wagon ride at the new McFeetors Heavy Horse Centre...

the guide explained all about this powerful horse breed as we circled the new area…

our ride was excellent… we went and picked up some rain ponchos as it was misting on us a bit… properly attired, we checked out a few other spots…