03 Sunday Dec 2017
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big girl pants, calendar, Chihuly, December, mother-in-law, superstition, turn, widow
this morning I turned my Chihuly calendar to the last page…
so happy to have next year’s all ready to go… and I know exactly where it is…
can’t hang it yet as my mother-in-law always said that it was bad luck to put up a new calendar before the actual start of the year, lol…
funny how some things stick with you…
01 Sunday Oct 2017
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big girl pants, Chihuly, grandsons, October, pizza, red, shopping, vibrant, virginia creeper, widow
full day… my grandson came over and worked in the yard for me… then we ran out and did a few errands…
as we left the driveway, got this shot of the Virginia creeper growing alongside the house…
the red is vibrant against the green on the cedar…
returned home and my daughter and the two younger boys arrived and we headed out for more shopping… this time to IKEA… it always amazes me how much time can get eaten up in that store, lol…
had a roast planned for dinner but as we left the store there wasn’t going to be time to cook and eat it before they needed to head home…
so, we ordered Panago pizza… it was delicious along with the salad we made to to go with it…
here’s the newest Chihuly page from my calendar…
omg… October already… how did that happen…
23 Wednesday Aug 2017
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01 Saturday Jul 2017
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beauty, big girl pants, calendar, Chihuly, garden, Jacques Cartier Park, memories, Mosai, tree, water, widow
had planned to spend the day in the garden, but woke up to rain coming down…
left the patio door screen open overnight so it was rather chilly when I got downstairs…
eventually the rain stopped and the sun came out… but then it clouded over again… sun peaked out now and again for the remainder of the day…
although I never left the house I put on red and white to commemorate Canada Day… started with long pants but then moved to shorts when I thought I’d go outside, only to discover it was chilly out again… never did get outside…
was very happy to see the new picture when I flipped the page on my Chihuly calendar…
reminded me of our visit to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens last June… took these pictures of a similar tree which was stunning, during the day and at night…
thinking about where we might go next to see more Chihuly…
looking forward to a week in Ottawa towards the end of the summer… we will be going to Mosai Canada to see a version of the Goddess which we saw in Atlanta…
have seen a few teaser pics on Instagram of how she will look… here’s one…
can hardly wait to see all of the installations at the Jacques Cartier Park… gardens and water, two of my favourite things;-)…
04 Tuesday Apr 2017
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big girl pants, camera, Chihuly, favourites, hibiscus, ladybug, shells, tree, widow
in my camera app you can save favourites…
when I like a picture for some reason or other, I put it into the favourites folder and wait for the right time to use it…
today I have a few that I’ve been saving and thought I would share…
on one of our walks on vacation I took this picture of a lovely hibiscus…
this shot of the new shell additions to the living room table… one square has the purchased ones and the other all of the ones we found along the beach…
newest page on my Chihuly calendar…
I love April…
this cute little ladybug was wandering along the baseboard in the bedroom the other day…
wonderfully gnarled tree in the English Gardens…
once I’ve used them I remove them from Favourites… and on to the next;-)…
26 Sunday Feb 2017
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amazing, Atlanta, big girl pants, blue, chandeliers, Chihuly, glass, installation, Seattle, treat, visits, widow
lovely morning spent going through my new Chihuly book admiring all the gorgeous glass chandeliers and remembering my visits to Seattle and Atlanta…
of all the installations I always lean toward the blue ones… although this mauve one kind of caught my eye…
I’ve followed his work for many years, after being introduced to it by my older daughter…
my first live view of his work was in Seattle on our way home from our Alaskan cruise… it was a stellar way to end the trip and we actually met Dale while we were wandering around Chihuly Garden and Glass…
this past June we went to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens for a Chihuly exhibition… my favourite there was the boat and spheres with this goddess…
the book was a lovely treat from a friend who had recently been to a city that had some Chihuly installations and while she was there she had the chance to see a few of the pieces as well…
if you have the opportunity to see any of his work in person I strongly recommend you take the time to check it out…
amazing…
03 Sunday Jul 2016
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Atlanta Botanical Garden, big girl pants, calendar, Chihuly, Chihuly Garden and Glass, hat, memories, widow
this morning I was thinking about our time in Atlanta just a few weeks ago…
very happy while I was there to pick up a 2017 calendar… also picked up some beautiful notecards and a Chihuly hat…
just a few days ago I turned over my 2016 calendar to this picture…
another beauty… makes checking the date a very pleasant experience… and a reminder of those wonderful visits to the Atlanta Botanical Garden and our amazing visit to Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle…
I had picked up a couple of novels before heading to Atlanta and started reading this one…
was blown away by her reference to Chihuly as I read on the flight to Ottawa on the way to Atlanta…
synchronicity…
memories…
18 Saturday Jun 2016
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another lovely day… cooler but with a nice breeze…
got a quick picture beside one of the water features at the W…
we started our day at the Green Farmers Market where we found a few things to eat and buy… then it was on to the Atlanta Botanical Garden… we found a shortcut to get there;-)…
it was the purple things that jumped out at me today…
this purple hibiscus was beautiful…
we finally spotted the bullfrog we’d heard yesterday… big one…
the water lilies looked great against the multi-coloured lily pads…
this purple fountain at dinner was nice too…
17 Friday Jun 2016
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Atlanta Day 2, big girl pants, Chihuly, flowers, garden, happy, long way baby, pills, water
this morning I stood at the window looking out over the city of Atlanta taking pills and chugging them back with a bottle of water…
for many years getting pills down was very difficult and I always had to have juice or tea because I didn’t drink water…
now, they slide down easily and water is something I drink all the time…
and I have travelled a whole lot more…
I’ve come a long way baby;-)…
here are just a few shots of things that made me happy throughout the day…
a cacao tree… later in the day we stopped and had some excellent chocolate…
a huge purple orchid…
a stunning blue and purple installation which we nearly missed…
a lotus blooming…
dusting of one of the glass pieces…
a ginormous bumblebee…
fun at the Midtown sign which we just discovered this morning…
being quite naughty and disobeying a few rules…
16 Thursday Jun 2016
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Atlanta Day 1, big girl pants, Botanical Garden, Chihuly, glass, hot, humid, installations, W Atlanta-Midtown
met up with my daughter in Toronto… took a while, but we finally found one another… on the plane we were catching up with pictures…
once at the W Atlanta-Midtown, an excellent choice I must say, we had a bit of lunch…
the place is sleek and modern and hip…
then it was off to the Atlanta Botanical Garden to see the Chihuly exhibition… the weather channel said it was over 40 degrees Celsius… we walked about half an hour to get there, and then wandered the Garden for an hour and a half…
there are a number of installations and we didn’t get to see them all, yet…
but this is why we came…
spent quite some time in this spot… there are benches throughout the Garden and here they were under a pergola with nice music playing… the sound of the falling water was peaceful…
another long hot and muggy walk back to the hotel… thirty minutes at plus forty is rather tiring… had a nap and found a great place for supper, the South City Kitchen…
we asked a man who was walking by to take our picture and he happily obliged…
then back to the Garden for an evening walk to see the installations lit up…
we ended with a bit of retail therapy in the ABG Chihuly Gift Shop – where I did not buy the $8000 bowl that I really wanted…
below is the first Chihuly that my daughter saw when she came to Atlanta many years ago and which has led us to Seattle, Montreal and now Atlanta…
what a spectacular day it has been;-)…
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