11 Monday Mar 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, cut, family, flowers, happy, hyacinth, moments, nature, plants, purple, scent, widow
yesterday I received a beautiful bouquet of hyacinths… I’ve never had them as cut flowers, always in soil…
what a lovely treat…
they are in a vase on the living room table and I am looking forward to them opening and scenting the house…
10 Sunday Mar 2024
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anthurium, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, growing, moments, nature, open, patience, plants, purple, recent, widow
watching the anthurium blossom open involves a good deal of patience…
this was the first photo I took of the most recent flower… it was on February 11…
this one on February 20…
February 27 photo…
and this one was from yesterday…
still a ways to go before it is completely open…
28 Wednesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, gratitude, happy place, health, moments, plants, replete, safe, sunshine, widow
often, as I sit in the sunlight here in the living room, I take a moment to celebrate how blessed I am…
a comfortable home, food to eat, family and friends to spend time with, plants and flowers to enjoy, birds and fish to watch, books to read, and good health…
my entire being is replete with gratitude for my life…
then I take a few moments to send thoughts and prayers to so many who are currently not so lucky…
23 Friday Feb 2024
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, biomes, blessed, flowers, happy, koi, moments, nature, orchidaceae, orchids, plants, pond, The Leaf, widow
just for fun I thought I would show some of the orchidaceae that we saw at Flora of the Philippines on Tuesday…
couldn’t help myself, lol…
there were a few other things that I photographed, lol… my buddies, the fish, were swimming around the pond…
we also saw some flowers on the very top of one of the first trees you see on entering the Tropical Biome… we only saw them thanks to a recommendation by one of the volunteers;-)…
another great visit…
20 Tuesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, biomes, blessed, flags, flora, flowers, food, friends, garden, gather, happy, moments, nature, orchids, Philippines, plants, pond, Technology, trees, widow
had a fun time at The Leaf today…
went with a friend to see Flora of the Philippines…
we couldn’t figure out the new markers on many of the plants in the Tropical Biome, but eventually realized they represented the flag of the Philippines and demonstrated how many of the plants in the biomes originated there…
besides seeing where so many plants came from, there were hundreds of orchids… heaven for me…
what a treat…
after our wander through the biomes, we had lunch at Gather…
what a delightful way to spend time together;-)…
06 Tuesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, doldrums, flowers, happy, home, moments, purple, tulips, vases, weather, widow
yesterday I picked up tulips when I was at the grocery store… I was very happy about that…
when I got home they went into a single large vase, but this morning I took the time to separate them into four containers…
one is on the stairs to go up to the bedroom…
one has gone onto the kitchen counter…
one is in the bathroom…
and one is next to where I sit to watch TV in the Den…
what a lovely treat… flowers are what help me get through the doldrums of February;-)…
04 Sunday Feb 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, moments, nature, orchid, phalaenopsis, plants, purple, widow
I’ve been waiting patiently for this phalaenopsis orchid to open…
here it was on Friday…
Saturday…
and today…
it is beautiful and different from the other one that has been open for awhile…
in my mind I was thinking they might turn out to be the same, lol… but not;-)…
whenever I look at my orchids I always think of my beloved, who brought them to me all the time…
27 Saturday Jan 2024
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beams, bedroom, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, happy, hot tub, light, moments, moon, nature, sun, sunshine, weather, widow
at last the sun came out late yesterday afternoon…
instead of a nap, I decided to read in the beams of light… and when I went out for my hot tub, the full moon was visible, woohoo…
this morning the sun was out again and I was so excited that I took a few photos in the bedroom as I admired the sunshine on the bed…
that sunlight makes the flowers even more beautiful;-)…
I have spent as much time as possible in the light, even spent some time on the deck…
24 Wednesday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, delightful, enjoy, flowers, happy, hyacinths, moments, nature, purple, scent, weather, widow, winter
it smells delightful right now in the living room as both of the hyacinths are blooming…
spent the majority of the day there so I could enjoy the scent;-)…
I am so happy to have flowers in these dark days of winter…
23 Tuesday Jan 2024
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anticipation, big girl pants, blessed, crocus, daffodils, flowers, happy, hyacinth, moments, plants, pot, Safeway, shopping, Spring, tulips, weather, widow
on Sunday we took a trip to Safeway to find some spring plants… this is the time of year that I need lots of things blooming around me…
we found individual pots of hyacinth and crocus… then a pot with tulips, daffodils, primrose, and hyacinth in it… I got them all, lol…
I am enjoying watching them as they open and anticipating the scent;-)…
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