05 Wednesday May 2021
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09 Saturday Jan 2021
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for many years, since my trip to Seattle in 2013, I have had a Chihuly calendar… either my daughter or I have purchased them for Christmas gifts to one another…
this year that didn’t happen, so we were discussing how we missed it the other day…
she suggested that I make one using Vistaprint… I had gone online and found them on the Chihuly Garden and Glass website, but the shipping charge was more than double the cost of the calendar…
so I did… I used the photos from our visit in 2016… it took about an hour to prepare and order…
that was on Monday… on Thursday it arrived;-)… it is beautiful, the photos came out clear and crisp and it is just slightly smaller than the Chihuly ones…
I am very happy…
I had fallen in love with a photo of the garden goddess many years ago that was taken in Montreal… on one of my visits to see the kids in Ottawa, we planned a visit to see it… unfortunately the picture was old and the structure was not in the garden…
in 2015, my daughter sent me information about a goddess structure in Atlanta, and that there was a Chihuly installation happening as well in 2016… I was very excited and so away we went…
it was a special time… I am going to enjoy this calendar…
12 Saturday Dec 2020
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Advent, big girl pants, calendar, family, fish, fish tank, food, forget, moments, nature, starving, tricky, water, widow
my morning schedule is to put on the kettle for my tea, choose my Advent treat for the day, feed the fish, and prepare my breakfast…
when I get to the calendar, which is on top of the fish tank, the fish are running back and forth to make sure I know they are there… and starving...
I can practically hear them, lol… later in the day, they will rush over as I enter their space to see if they can convince me that they haven’t been fed…
18 Wednesday Nov 2020
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air, big girl pants, calendar, clogged, fish, fish tank, goldfish, moments, new skill, pump, widow
had a problem with the fish tank last week…
one of my fish was floating and it was hard to see through the water…
I finally figured out that the tube linking the bottom of the tank with the pump was clogged and they weren’t getting enough air in the water…
managed to get it out, cleaned and reinserted… after a few scary minutes the water started to flow over the edge and it slowly cleared… the rest of the fish were much happier…
I did have a giggle when I realized that the parrot feathers plant had been completely eaten, so I removed it…
today, I had to take the same steps, although the tank was still clear… having the water lilies in the tank are clogging it up more often…
but an easy fix, now I know what to do… maybe I will add this to the calendar and clean it once a week to be sure they stay healthy;-)…
01 Monday Apr 2019
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two lovely things to start my day…
first was to turn the page on my Chihuly calendar…
April is a stunning installation which is located at Union Station in Tacoma, Washington… will be nice to look at for the month…
and, when I got to the office I discovered my little inukshuk (or inuksuk) keychain sitting on my desk… it broke quite a while ago and a sweet colleague took it home for repair… there it sat, just waiting to get back together with my work keys, which happened immediately… she did a beautiful repair job…
I love inuksuit… there is one in the side garden built out of Tyndall stone… well, it needs a little work, but that will happen as the weather improves, lol…
excellent start to the day…
02 Saturday Feb 2019
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finally had the time to take a photo of the February Chihuly calendar… the piece is called blue frog foot fiore… this installation was at the New York Botanical Garden in 2017…
was picked up by friends, went to the Nhu Quynh for a lovely lunch before we headed to PTE for this month’s show, which was excellent…
nice to spend time with friends…
01 Tuesday Jan 2019
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for the last four or five years one of my first acts of the New Year has been to change my Chihuly calendar from the last year to the coming one…
when I went to change it this morning and turned up the last page of the 2018 calendar it was a lovely photo of a Float Boat… I love the circular shapes and gorgeous colours and was sad that I wouldn’t see them…
when I opened up the 2019 calendar the first photo was of Mille Fiore… lovely blues and purples… the calendars have a few months before January and a few after December…
the January picture was all clear and didn’t make me at all excited…
so I changed it… cut the photo out and put it over the clear pic, lol..
I am pleased with the final product…
later in the afternoon I spent some time in the hot tub and thought of the various places I have seen Float Boats… the first place was at Chihuly Gardens and Glass in 2013 with my daughter and son-in-law when they were living on Vancouver Island…
I’ve also seen lots of photos in books on Chihuly…
and my favourite was from our visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden in 2016…
lovely memories…
09 Friday Nov 2018
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big girl pants, calendar, Chihuly, garden, glass, installations, memories, moments, special places, widow
really can’t believe how fast time is going by…
seems like it was just yesterday that I turned the page to November on my Chihuly calendar…
rather like this picture…
looking forward to getting a 2019 Chihuly calendar and wondering what spectacular photos will be included…
whenever I look at the calendar I remember the amazing places I have been to see Chihuly installations…
the mind blowing Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle…
the gorgeous installations at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens…
the chandeliers at the Hilton Lac-Leamy in Gatineau…
wonder where I might see some next;-)…
03 Wednesday Oct 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, calendar, Chihuly, condo, family, fish, garden, George, pond, remembering, tank, turned, widow
turned the calendar over on Monday and found this lovely picture…
on Sunday the kids caught most of the fish;, emptied, cleaned and filled the tank; and later in the evening I poured them into their condo…
we think there are still a few in the pond, although I haven’t spotted any when coming or going through the garden…
made me think of the year that George brought them in the first week of December and had to break the ice on the pond;-)…
06 Sunday May 2018
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amazing, Atlanta, big girl pants, blue, calendar, Chihuly, flipped, garden, goddess, installation, memories, next, photos, travel, widow
when I flipped my Chihuly calendar to May, I was reminded of our wonderful visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden a few years ago to see the Chihuly Installations…
the picture is a tower and reminded me of the tall yellow one where we had a picture taken by some people walking by, lol… my daughter had taken a few pictures for them just before that… it was also one that lit up at night…
I dug through old photos and found a few of my favourites from that trip…
the goddess was the reason for the trip and we spent a fair bit of time at that installation…
of all of Chihuly’s pieces, I am always most drawn to the blues… from the very first ones I saw at Chihuly Garden and Glass… here is a blog I wrote about that amazing experience…
lovely memories… wondering what might be next…
