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…
26 Tuesday Apr 2016
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big girl pants, bunny, canna, Japanese Maple, outside, squirrel, warmth, widow
started the day by spotting these two out the window…
a squirrel under the feeder and a bunny across the street… can you see his ears by the sidewalk…
the Japanese Maple is so ready to move out into the garden…
can’t take it out too soon because it isn’t fond of the cool weather…
nearly missed the canna blooming…
was thinking that it had just put out a new leaf at the top, lol…
think it wants to be outside as well… mushed right up against the glass…
we all want to get outside into the warmth…
now, if it would just get warm;-)…
14 Wednesday Oct 2015
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early this morning I got a picture of the flowers on the coffee table…
I am really enjoying the blooms…
when I got home I got this picture of the morning glory...
they are still flowering even after the couple of frosts we’ve had…
when I got into the living room the flowers were beautifully lit by the sunlight…
guess I should put away the turkey, lol…
the orchid is very lovely… 
these crazy cannas which I cut off from the main plants weeks ago… keep blooming…
this dahlia came in from the garden when I lifted them out on the weekend and it has started to bloom…
flowers make me so happy…
06 Tuesday Oct 2015
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advance poll, big girl pants, canna, duty, election, ID, online, vote
took this picture first thing of one of the cannas which was blooming… had cut the two spent blooms off when it came into the house on Sunday…
stuck the stalks into another pot to let them finish drying so I might be able to plant some seeds in the spring… then I spotted this…
our election is coming up and everyone was supposed to receive a voting card in the mail…
I haven’t received one…
have lived in this house for over forty years… have voted in every election since I was old enough… always had the appropriate documentation for each of those elections…
went online to see if I could figure out what to do in this situation… checked the voters list and I am on it… but couldn’t find a phone number to speak with a live person, or an answer to my question about what to take to the polls to be sure I can vote…
tonight I found this in my mailbox…
hope I have read it correctly… planning to vote at the Advance Poll on Friday as I am off, and it is at the Community Club which is just a few blocks from the house…
will take my ID and go early in case there are any problems…
tonight I took another picture of the same flower…
beautiful with the light shining on it…
looking forward to voting and making my voice heard… hope everyone else who is eligible makes use of this right…
07 Monday Sep 2015
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here are a few flower pictures I’ve taken over the last while…
this shot of hydrangea was special to me because of the light…
this was in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden and there were dozens of bushes filled with blossoms… quite beautiful…
yesterday morning I took this shot of wild jolly jump-ups… they are so tiny and cute… could easily have been missed…
there are now three little patches of them in the grass in the garden… luckily they are right along edges so should survive mowing…
here is a shot of one of the morning glory buds preparing to open…
thought they looked like this the day before they open, but it seems they can stay like this for a few days… will be interesting to see if it opens tomorrow while I am home, lol…
this is a stalk from the calla which I cut off the other day because I thought it was done…
it is just stuck into a pot to dry the seeds out, and now it is blooming… pretty special…
this final photo is of one of the phone handsets in a bag of rice…
managed to drop it into the toilet yesterday… hopefully the rice will do its magic and dry it out…
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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