27 Sunday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, camera, Centre Court, court, dahlia, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pictures, widow
spent a few minutes with the Centre Court dahlias that I brought into the house yesterday…
they have really opened up since they came in and I had a bit of fun taking pictures…
trying to decide whether I like the dark background or the light one…
what do you think;-)…
17 Thursday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, dahlias, flowers, frost, garden, hibiscus, inside, mandevilla, moments, nature, weather, widow
in preparation for the colder weather I’ve now brought in the three plants that live in the house…
last week the Japanese maple came in and settled back in beside the living room window… the leaf colours had already started to change…
a few days back, the mandevilla came in… I added fresh earth and sprayed it with insecticide to remove any creepy crawlers that might have wanted to take a trip…
it had been hanging outside and really wanted to lean forward… eventually three elastics helped make it stand up straight… hope it doesn’t decide to fall over in the dining room…
yesterday I brought the hibiscus inside…. excited to see it has buds on it;-)…
might also bring in a couple of others to see if they can survive the winter in the house…
and tonight I’ve covered the dahlias… the temperature is likely going to -4 Celsius… four of them have buds and I’m hoping they get to open… for two of them, it will be the first time they bloom and I am interested to see how they look…
12 Saturday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Bruce Park, flowers, garden, health, moments, nature, traffic, walk, water, weather, widow
walked through Bruce Park the other day…
much less people traffic than the area around Assiniboine Park… quiet and peaceful…
got to see water flowing, flowers blooming and shaded green spaces…
lovely…
08 Tuesday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy place, Highlights, Instagram, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, pond, sanctuary, Stories, widow
recently it was pointed out to me that I don’t show much of my garden on Instagram…
that is because I usually focus on close ups of the flowers in the garden, lol…
when I joined Instagram my focus was photos of flowers and I have continued to concentrate on that theme over the years with the odd picture of critters and chocolate included…
this is rather funny as I spend most of my days in this renewing space…
a few days ago I took a number of photos in the garden once all the cushions were out and then put them up in my Stories…
it was a fun process and I had to relearn how to do a few things;-)…
now there are Highlights of the garden… of course the funny thing is that the garden is not at its best as we are moving into Fall… maybe next year I can start earlier in the season so others can see this sanctuary throughout the entire summer…
I love my garden and wonder how this crazy summer would have been without it…
06 Sunday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, mandevilla, moments, nature, patience, pictures, plants, time, widow
I searched through my photos and it looks like August 11 was the first time I took a photo of the buds on the mandevilla… this was the first time this summer that this houseplant has even started to get buds…
this morning, 26 days later, the first bloom is open…
they take an incredible amount of time to open;-)…
patience;-)…
02 Wednesday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, birds, Cornell Lab, datura, family, flowers, garden, learning, migration, moments, nature, weather, widow
it was rather chilly yesterday morning… I wore pants, a long sleeve shirt and my spring/fall jacket for my walk;-(…
after the walk, with my daughter on the phone, I had breakfast and checked out the garden, but it was still chilly, lol…
deadheaded the datura in the front flower bed, did some reading and watched a very informative webinar on bird migration…
seemed like a busy day, lol…
31 Monday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, pictures, pond, purple, walk, walkabout, widow
had a short walkabout this morning and took some photos of flowers in the garden…
the water lily looks to be opening for the last time… the other two are already sinking into the water…
the butterfly bush is still blooming every day…
the datura has some beautiful colours…
there are still a few morning glories blooming each day…
and finally, the sunflower is beginning to open… not sure if it will produce sunflower seeds…
good walk;-)…
29 Saturday Aug 2020
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…
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;-)…
