17 Thursday Aug 2017
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went to the Farmers Market today and picked up a few things…
got tiny cucumbers and potatoes, a cauliflower, peas, two kinds of buns, a chocolate bar and 3 purple glads…
as I walked home with my treasures lots of people commented on the gladioli…
for dinner I had roasted country style spareribs along with new potatoes and dill, beets from last week, and cucumbers in vinegar and water… delicious…
wonderful to have access to fresh food so close to the office…
life is good…
08 Tuesday Aug 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, memories, morning glories, pictures, surgery, sweetie, widow
seven years ago today I had surgery to remove my gallbladder… I had already been in the hospital for five weeks with pancreatitis but they had to wait till I was a bit stronger… I do believe that was the most serious illness I’ve dealt with, and the sickest I have ever been…
we had been scheduled to go to BC but had to cancel that trip…
George would come to the hospital every day and he would take a picture of the morning glories which were blooming that day before he left home…
today’s picture reminds me of that sweet gift that he brought me each day…
we only had one pot filled with the morning glories and they had just started to bloom around that time…
every morning, as I hunt for the newest blooms, I think back to those days and how my beloved took those pictures for me…
he was a sweetie…
07 Monday Aug 2017
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woke up to see x marking the spot above me…
think it was just so I knew where I was…
it was chilly in the night so I did get up and put on a hoodie… my little cocoon ended up just right…
had a few visitors over the last few days…
the goldfinch has come by both days and let me get a few nice shots…
also had a bunny stop by for a visit…
must have stayed there for half an hour…
some type of bug has been munching on the morning glories… wasn’t so bad when it was just the leaves, but now the flowers are being affected;-(…
going to have to see if I can figure out who the culprit is…
03 Thursday Aug 2017
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big girl pants, English Garden, flowers, garden, memories, nature, pelicans, pictures, pond, sunlight, view, walk, widow
had a lovely early morning walk to and around the Gardens at the Park…
first time the pelicans have been around this year when I’ve been on my walks…
the Gardens are lovely right now…
the gardeners were everywhere and the sprinklers were rather a danger… took quite different paths so I didn’t get drenched…
last week I got a shot of this bench with a woman seated on it from the other side of the garden… looks different from this point of view…
the view from our bench… and here’s the bench…
as I left the Gardens the path was beautiful with the dappled light…
great start to the day…
27 Thursday Jul 2017
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took this photo of a dahlia in the garden getting ready to bloom…
although I just bought these this spring it made me think about the ones we bought in 2011 in Courtenay…
we went to visit the Dahlia man… he was very old and lived on a property at the edge of Courtney/Comox… I can’t remember the man’s name, but George would have… he remembered all that type of stuff…
we must have spent two hours with him… looking at all the dahlias which were blooming and then going through his boxes and ziplock bags filled with tubers… he and my beloved talked and talked, lol…
we brought home some of the tubers and he sent more later…
they bloomed beautifully and at the end of the season we lifted them and packed them up for the next year… sadly they were put in ziplock bags and in the spring were all mushy… we hadn’t let them dry sufficiently before bagging them…
both of my girls have developed the same ability to talk to anyone anywhere and know all about them by the end of the conversation… makes me giggle… so not me…
25 Tuesday Jul 2017
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every morning I am so eager to go out and see which morning glories are blooming…
when I looked out today I couldn’t see any and wondered if the huge thunderstorm in the night had beaten them down, as they are rather delicate… seems if something touches them they will mark very easily…
but, when I headed out on the way to the garage, I found lots…
I can’t get enough of the light that glows from deep within them…
my son-in-law in Cold Lake sent me some shots of a dragonfly tonight after supper… added one I’d taken a few days ago, lol…
dragonflies are so cool and beautiful… and wonderful how they eat the mosquitoes…
so important to take the time to savour the moments in life…
24 Monday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, English Garden, flowers, garden, Habitat, Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, pictures, quiet, walk, widow
on my way to the Park yesterday I walked past the Habitat for Humanity Build…
made me laugh because I hadn’t realized it was happening two blocks away from my house… as it was Sunday there wasn’t any activity…
the Gardens were beautiful… I hadn’t been for a few weeks, so it was lovely to see how well they were looking…
lots of people wandering around so I had to stop and wait for just the right moment to get my shots… they are clearly ready for the influx of visitors to the city at the end of the week…
once back at home I spent the day in the garden… lots of reading and relaxing… very quiet…
a lovely end to a wonderful family-filled weekend…
19 Wednesday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, blessed, cancer, flowers, garden, memories, moments, pictures, recovery, surgery, widow
some lovely pictures this morning…
flowers make me happy…
yesterday marked five years since my cancer/hernia surgery… I hadn’t been able to lift anything for weeks as the hernia was causing a lot of trouble… for the next six weeks as I was in recovery mode I still wasn’t able to lift anything over two pounds… I spent the summer having friends and family coming over to look after the garden and take care of me…
things are much better now and I am so blessed…
14 Friday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, flowers, garden, haul, light, local, morning glories, purple, shopping, summer, sunshine, widow
started yesterday with a morning glory sighting…
they are just so stunning… make me smile every time I see one… I am always astonished at the light that seems to pour out of the centre of them…
it was a lovely day so we had lunch in the Millennium Park… the sun was shining and Emptyful was misting rather nicely over us…
another colleague walked by and took this great shot of the four of us…
once we were finished eating a few of us walked over and around the Downtown Farmers Market… we were pretty quick but I was so happy to have found peas and small cucumbers…
what a haul… had a few last night and they are delicious…
ah, summer…
09 Sunday Jul 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, camping, clematis, family, flowers, George, grandsons, memories, moments, Palomino, pop-up, purple, trailer, widow
we’ve been searching for a trailer for camping for the last while… looked at a few options but they weren’t just what we were wanting…
on Friday I went with my son-in-law and the younger grandsons to look at a pop-up trailer just outside the city…
we found the place rather easily, lol…
there was the most beautiful clematis in the driveway, and I had to take some pictures…
we had a look at the trailer which was set up in the garage…
although it is bigger, it reminded me of the trailer that we had for many years and the great camping trips we enjoyed with it…
we decided to buy it… it was a bit of a process, but between my credit union and the one in the town, we managed to get the funds so we wouldn’t have to make another trip to pick up the trailer…
when we got back to the house where it was, I was chatting with the woman who was selling it, as her dad and my son-in-law were taking it down…
she was talking about how her dad was such a support for her and I said something about my husband being the same for my daughters… then I mentioned he had died five years ago… she looked at me oddly and said George… at which point we realized that she had worked with my beloved… she had thought I looked familiar but was confused when my son-in-law had the same name, lol…
makes the trailer even more special…
the final giggle for me was the brand name on it… anyone who knows my son-in-law will see the connection…
he worked at the Palomino Club for years… we didn’t even notice this until we got it home…
looking forward to family fun and memories with this new addition….
clearly this was meant to be… serendipity…
