this morning there were three water lily blooms…
this is a first as there have never been three blooms at once in the pond, and I’ve never have five flowers in one season…
blessed…
five…
29 Saturday Aug 2020
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poisonous…
25 Tuesday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, careful, datura, flowers, garden, gift, moments, nature, photos, plants, poisonous, widow
spent some time in the front flower bed tidying the datura…
they are doing great… I’ve been trimming the spent blossoms so that the plant might make more flowers;-)…
also made sure that all the debris went into the pots and washed my hands afterwards as they are poisonous…
the other day I may have put my hand to my lips and had a strange sensation so am being more careful…
final photo from inside the house…
sanctuary…
23 Sunday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, butterfly bush, chickadees, fish, flowers, garden, moments, nature, nuthatch, overwinter, pictures, plants, pond, purple, sanctuary, squirrels, time, widow
spent the morning in the garden watching chickadees, monarchs, nuthatches, squirrels and fish…
the nuthatch was not interested in a photo op and even the chickadees were not particularly cooperative…
the monarch was happily guzzling nectar from the butterfly bush, so I was able to get a number of photos… I am very happy to finally have this plant in the garden and hope that I can get some seeds from it for next year or maybe even try to bring it into the house to see if it will overwinter…
it looks like there will be two more water lily flowers with a possible third one… very exciting…
I hadn’t been out in the garden for a few days and really enjoyed time with the members of my garden sanctuary;-)…
pinky…
03 Monday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, coneflower, early, flowers, moments, morning glories, nature, pictures, pinky, purple, roses, walk, widow
on my walk this morning all the photos of flowers that I took were pinky/purple, lol…
although it was a holiday and I left the house a bit later than normal, there were few people out and about…
entertain…
02 Sunday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, dinner, entertain, family, flowers, garden, goldfish, grandson, memories, moments, pond, squirrels, treat, widow
a lovely Sunday…
spent most of the day in the garden, watching squirrels, chickadees, butterflies and goldfish…
watched a little red squirrel make hundreds of trips across the upper deck to collect sunflowers for its stash… saw the frog and a purple house finch, read and napped in the garden…
brought out some of the flowers I received yesterday to enjoy…
so happy to have this space to entertain and was pleased to have visitors from out of town… enjoyed steak and lobster for dinner and some quiet late night star gazing…
we were quite late in eating and I giggled a bit when I realized that I didn’t remember to take a picture of my supper…
fifty…
01 Saturday Aug 2020
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anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, fifty, flowers, George, Locals, memories, moments, remembering, special times, widow
fifty years ago today at 4:30 pm I married the love of my life…
I have been without him for the past nine… below is a photo of our last anniversary together… we had a wonderful dinner at Locals in Courtenay;-)…
those were quite the amazing and wonder-filled forty-two (less four months) years…
I wandered through various files and binders in search of our wedding invitation… it was kind of fun to look at all of these memories… came across a few anniversary cards in the process…
on our fortieth anniversary he brought me forty roses to the hospital… we were supposed to have flown to Courtenay for our vacation just a few days before…
they were amazing and the scent was delightful, although each night they had to be moved into the hall because the perfume overpowered the entire room and it was difficult to sleep, lol…
I have so blessed…
deadheading…
31 Friday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, deadheading, flowers, garden, Hilda the Gardener, nature, pictures, plants, pond, widow
had a great day: phone calls with two special friends, a garden visit with another great friend, and three hours with Hilda the Gardener where I did a lot of deadheading…
the garden looks very nice…
come by for a visit;-)…
thinned…
17 Friday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, datura, flowers, friends, garden, moments, nature, purple, thinned, widow
I found some datura seeds that had been sitting around in the house and planted them in a couple of pots in the front flower bed a while ago…
they have produced some beautiful mauve flowers… I should have thinned them out but just couldn’t do it, lol… so the flowers are small… they open in the morning and only last for the day…
a friend brought me some of the ones she had planted and thinned out… I planted a single one in four different pots… they are now blooming… these ones bloom in the evening and are a bright white…
really enjoying the view out the window each day;-)…
lightening…
17 Friday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Captain's Table, dinner, fish and chips, flowers, food, garden, grandson, lightening, memories, moments, morning glories, nature, purple, weather, widow
busy day…
my middle grandson was dropped off to mow the grass and do a few other pieces of work for me…
he mowed, whipper snipped, pulled weeds, moved furniture and the new umbrella, filled bird/squirrel feeders, and cleaned up patio stones…
it was a hot day for digging around the stones, but it looks so much better… still have more to do the next time he is here… he is a lovely young man and I enjoy the time we have together;-)…
the front yard and garden look tidy and fresh… I sat out for a while after he left but then came in as rain appeared to be on the way and arrived with thunder and lightning…
a most amazing woman brought Captain’s Table fish and chips over (one of my favourites) for supper and we ate inside… the downpour had finally stopped, but it was cool outside… eventually we were able to take a tour of the garden and visit on the deck…
I am so blessed with all the special people who are, and have been, in my life…
wandered…
15 Wednesday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, photos, plants, pond, purple, Tea, wandered, widow
woke up to quiet this morning… the power was off so nothing in the house or neighbourhood was running… was thinking I wasn’t going to get any tea, but just fifteen minutes later it came back on…
took my cup of tea outside and spent some time in the garden…
wandered around admiring all the flowers…
also happy to get a few shots of the various critters who stopped by…
I need to get back into the pond to deal with the algae but it was a little cool today, so I will do that in the next few days…
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