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09 Sunday Jun 2019

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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, dahlia, flowers, garden, happy, hibiscus, mandevilla, planted, plants, pond, purple, rain, theme, weather, widow

had some fun in the garden on Saturday… the forecast was for thunderstorms and rain during the day so I got out early to plant the purchases from the day before…

trying to stick to the purple and white theme although the dahlia might be a bit on the pink side;-)…

three pots planted, a few baskets hung, the tomato and mandevilla placed… also brought out the hibiscus…

still need to bring out the Japanese Maple, but going to wait just a bit longer so it doesn’t struggle with the move…

it is looking pretty good… now just waiting to get that back flowerbed cleaned up…

missing my beloved as I work away in the yard…

sighting…

26 Tuesday Sep 2017

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big girl pants, blooms, dahlia, flicker, flowers, garden, purple, sighting, widow

first thing this morning I got a few pictures of the flowers blooming in the garden… happy to see the dahlia amongst the other blooms even in the cooler weather…

and was so excited when I drove up to the house at the end of the day to spot half a dozen flickers searching the front yard for snacks…

pretty good sightings for September 26th…

dots…

11 Monday Sep 2017

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big girl pants, dahlia, dots, elm tree, flowers, garden, ladybugs, moon, moonflower, morning glories, removal, sunflower, widow

early morning in the garden…

saw lots of flowers…

dahlia, morning glories, moonflower (maybe), and one of the two sunflowers…

while I was waiting for my ride I got this shot of the pretty moon…

and some ladybugs…

on my way home tonight I took a shot of the dot on this elm tree which has been tagged for removal…

reminded me of the early morning ladybugs…

look…

19 Tuesday Jul 2016

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big girl pants, bunny, camera, dahlia, look, moon, widow, window

last night I spent some time staring at the beautiful moon…

for a few moments I considered going to get my camera and taking some pictures, but instead chose to just admire it…

this morning I looked out the living room window and spotted this cutie…

even sat still long enough for me to get a few pictures…

last picture of the morning was of the gorgeous dahlia through the window…

really blooming beautifully…

company…

15 Friday Jul 2016

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ashes, big girl pants, company, dahlia, fushia, gardener, Grandpa, grandsons, pond, rocks, s'mores, walk, widow

had quite a bit of company today…

early morning meeting with my money guy…

then met my grandson for breakfast and we worked in the garden for a few hours…


he is getting to be a good gardener… finished putting the rocks around and in the pond so now none of the liner is visible…  we also lifted the deck to move the cords out of sight and he cleaned up the flower bed and put rocks down…

looks very nice… made red lentil curry and rice for our lunch which is one of his favourites…


the fushia was looking beautiful today…

after he left, spent some time reading in the garden and then had a nap…

the daddy dropped the little boys off after supper on his way to work…

we had a lovely time… they came with me to water a friend’s plants…


on our way home we stopped for Dairy Queen ice cream and once we arrived at the house, we walked over to the grocery store to pick up fixings for s’mores…

on our way back we stopped at the creek where we scattered grandpa’s ashes and then there was rolling down the hill activity…


got this great shot of the dahlias blooming in the front garden as we arrived home from the store… they look like a painting…


the boys played with balloons for at least an hour, on the deck and then in the hot tub…


everyone played on their electronics for a while and then we had a fire…


they were picked up by mom and I am now enjoying a few quiet minutes before heading to bed, lol…

we never did get to the s’mores but will do that on Sunday when they come for dinner…

it is such a treat to spend some one-on-one time with them…

neverending…

12 Tuesday Jul 2016

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big girl pants, dahlia, flowers, mandevilla, neverending, orchid, rain, weather, widow

this morning my focus seems to have been on flowers, lol…

had to take a few pictures of the neverending October IKEA orchid… it continues to amaze me with its beauty…

straight on and…

from the side…

then I looked out the window and saw the dahlia blooming…

they are a beautiful shade of purple and look very nice in the planter…

so excited when I stepped outside to see that one of the mandevilla blossoms had opened… even in the rain…

the weather danced between blue sky and rain and overcast all day long…

took this picture when I first got out of bed… since then it has been gray, cloudy, sunny, cloudy, rainy, sunny, rainy, cloudy… on my drive home it looked similar to this shot and now it is gray and the rain has just stopped… 

feels like everyone I know is a bit down or feeling a little off…

the neverending rain is getting a bit trying… looking forward to some sunshine…

special…

30 Monday May 2016

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big girl pants, blessed, dahlia, friendship, Galapagos, gifts, patio, purple, special, widow

had a lovely evening…

dinner with a most special woman to celebrate our friendship…

we sat on couches on a patio in the sunshine and traded gifts with one another…

she treated me to a beautiful purple bird feeder and a solar dragonfly for the garden…


for her I’d found a compact umbrella and wrapped it with a pretty scarf… she is one of the best wrappers I have ever come across, so I was feeling a bit of pressure to do a good job, lol… she thought it looked great, yay…

had a virgin Caesar that had three olives in it… practically a meal…


followed that with a delicious pizza… tasty…


once I arrived home I found that two of the dahlias are breaking through the soil in one of the pots… very exciting…


ended the evening with three more special women… we shared stories of recent activities and had a picture presentation of one’s recent trip to the Galapagos Islands…

what a treat the evening has been… 

I continue to be blessed with so many special people in my life…

flowers…

14 Wednesday Oct 2015

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big girl pants, canna, dahlia, flowers, garden, orchid

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…

prep…

10 Saturday Oct 2015

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big girl pants, dahlia, garden, hot tub, prep, sunset, thankful, tubers

spent time in the garden today…

first thing was emptying the hot tub…

  
takes quite a while to drain…

  
then, while it filled, I emptied pots and baskets… also cut back, and cleaned off the dahlia tubers as I prepped the garden for winter, sigh…

brought in the last of the flowers and blooms from the dahlias… hope they continue to bloom like the canna has…

  
put out a few Thanksgiving decorations, set the table for Monday’s dinner, and watched some tv…

made stuffing… tomorrow I will prepare the vegetables, which makes it much more relaxing on Monday…

I looked out the window at one point and the light looked odd so I ran downstairs and checked the front and back windows…

the sky was spectacular…

   
out the back…

 
through the front… just a few minutes later this is what I saw…

 
have been blessed to have caught so many gorgeous views of the sky in the last while…
so much to be thankful for…

light…

28 Friday Aug 2015

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big girl pants, dahlia, garden, hummingbird, light, morning glory, sad, storm, weekend

early this morning I was forced to turn on lights because it was dark, sigh… as I was getting ready for work, thunder and lightning were filling the sky…

  
a few minutes before I had to leave, I ran outside and got this picture of the morning glory blossoms…

  
apparently the storm did a number on them…

got a nice picture of the dahlia… been thinking I might cut them and bring them into the house… so beautiful…

  
after work sat outside and was checking my phone when something crossed my vision and hovered in front of the basket of flowers just four feet from me… took a few seconds to realize what it was… a tiny hummingbird… it moved and hovered over the hot tub for another few seconds before flying off… needed to go in and finish dinner, but couldn’t leave the chair in case it came back…

  
finished off the day with a light ice cream cupcake… it’s been in the freezer for a couple of weeks and really felt like I needed to get it out of there…

ten to nine and it is dark…

going to have to take my SAD light to the office next week and start turning it on…

but, it is the weekend and I am going to enjoy every minute of it…

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