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02 Thursday Jun 2016

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time for a new page on my Chihuly calendar…


a nice one… looking forward to visiting the installations at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens in a few weeks…

gardens are such fun to visit and take photos in… amazing to me how many places I have travelled to in the last four years…

the other thing I took time to take a photo of this morning was the new stem and buds on the October orchid that I picked up from IKEA… the last blossom just fell off on Monday… I’ve had it since October… longest blooming orchid I have ever had…


seems like many of those in my extended circle are struggling with health issues… 

keeping them in my thoughts during these difficult times…

spheres…

18 Wednesday May 2016

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Atlanta, big girl pants, Botanical, Chihuly, Montreal, spheres, visit, widow

very happy to see the gorgeous spheres when I turned the page to May on my Chihuly calendar…


I find the spheres mesmerizing…

not long after that I got a message from my daughter with this picture…


about the opening of a Chihuly in the Garden event at the Atlanta Botanical Garden…

the sculpture in the background was very similar to one we had expected to see when we travelled to Montreal to view their Botanical Garden… unfortunately it had been taken down not too long before we went, lol…

so when I saw that and the boat filled with spheres I started to think about a visit…

and now I am going… looking forward to a trip mid June to view the Gardens and the Chihuly installations…

going to be great fun…

gardens…

01 Sunday May 2016

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Atlanta Botanical Garden, big girl pants, bread, calendar, Chihuly, decadent, frog, gardens, orbs, pond, sounds, widow

always great fun to turn my beautiful Chihuly calendar from one month to the next…

  

these orbs make me very happy… remind me of the lovely purple ones that the kids gave me for Mother’s Day…

  

still have to put a bit of water in them and then silicone the small hole in each one so they will float… also think I might join the three of them together with some fishing line through the silicone…

had a decadent lunch… hard to believe that a chicken sandwich on flax bread with chips and a salad is decadent, lol… 

bread is really one of the most problematic foods for me… makes my sugar levels go up all of the next day so I have to be very careful how much of it I eat…

  
when I was shopping today the bread really jumped out… my favourite technique is to buy bread, have some, and then feed the rest to the kids when they come for dinner or take it to work the next day… that way I can have the treat but not overdo… the last few days have been quiet as I saw the kids and had dinner with them on Friday… bread’s going to work tomorrow, lol…

have been watching the information about the new Chihuly opening at the Atlanta Botanical Garden… today I came across a great article in Houzz showing pictures of a number of the installations… sure looks awesome…

  
my new frog friend is very talkative… there is a lot of noise coming from the pond area… not sure if there are more there, or whether it can throw its voice…

restful time in the garden…

  
loving the beautiful weather…

glass…

01 Tuesday Mar 2016

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great fun to turn the page on my Chihuly calendar this morning… so happy I was able to get a 2016 one…

  
every picture reminds me of the amazing visit we had to Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle…

this morning it was very light and I took a few pictures of the fish through the glass…

  
they kind of posed for the photo…

ended the day with some fabulous pho that we picked up after aquasize…

  
it was delicious… and a lovely treat… 

was very good all day to be sure I could manage the special meal…

excited…

01 Friday Jan 2016

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big girl pants, Chihuly, excited, homemade, macaroni, memories, Seattle, unforgettable, white sauce

yesterday my daughter in Ottawa asked for my recipe for homemade macaroni and cheese…

it is one of her favourites and we didn’t have an opportunity to have it while they were home…

it is in a duo tang from high school home ec class that I keep on the shelf in the kitchen with my other cookbooks…

  
excited that she wanted to make it… came out very nice and they enjoyed it…

the white sauce in that recipe is my go to… I can’t even think how many times I’ve made it for various dishes… best thing I ever learned in home economics…

the most exciting thing today was getting to turn the calendar to January…

  
I purchased this calendar in August and have been waiting to get to use it… the last one I had was for 2014 and I didn’t open it until January only to discover that it had the previous November and December included… was so excited that this one would have the same thing…

  
but it didn’t… been waiting since September to get to a full size calendar…

I just love Dale Chihuly’s work… one of the most memorable moments for me was standing in Chihuly Garden and Glass at the base of the Seattle Space Needle and hearing his voice as he walked into the room we were in… to listen as he answered students’ questions and then get a picture with him… was like meeting a rock star…

funny what makes an unforgettable memory…

Chihuly…

27 Friday Feb 2015

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when we were in Seattle in 2013, I got this amazing calendar which I put away until January 2014, without losing it, lol…



I have enjoyed it every day as I would wander past it… it reminded me of the spectacular day we met Dale Chihuly at Chihuly Garden and Glass… 



this is the last month… I am wondering about whether I can order another one for 2015 on line…

I will never forget the day we spent amongst all of the amazing glass sculptures… he really is a genius… 



still a bit star struck…

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