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…
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…
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…
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;-)…
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;-)…
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…
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…
14 Tuesday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, blossom, fish, flowers, garden, moments, nature, patience, pictures, plants, pond, water lily, widow
the water lilies are doing very well and I think the fish are enjoying the shade they provide…
I purchased two from RPGC and have been checking daily in the hope that there might be a bud coming…
on July 10 I spotted something that might prove to be one…
I’ve been checking everyday and was thrilled to discover I was right…
it takes a long time for one to emerge from the base of the pot and climb up through a couple of feet of water…
waited patiently… and on Sunday it popped to the surface…
yesterday, it opened a little bit and today it opened completely;-)…
14 Tuesday Jul 2020
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, flowers, garden, happily, happy, memories, moments, nature, plants, purple, retirement, The Dahlia Expert, time, widow
enjoying time in the garden…
the dahlias are doing well and happily they are opening at different times so there should be some blooming throughout the weeks, rather than all at once and then nothing…
when I planted them I put the plastic bag they came in into the pot and now I can’t read the name, lol…
so far a purple one has bloomed next to the house…
and then a delicate white with purple tones bloomed… 3 flowers last week and 3 are blooming right now…
I cut them and put them in a vase to enjoy in the house…
currently that plant has 4 more buds on it… looks like another white one is starting to open… looking forward to how beautiful it will look when it is completely open…
that leaves two still to develop buds… can’t wait to see what colour they turn out to be… when I ordered them I asked for purple and white varieties…
with my retirement, I am enjoying the ability to spend each day in the garden all summer long…
13 Monday Jul 2020
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, bloom, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, sunburned, widow
yesterday the hibiscus finally bloomed for the first time in many months…
it lives in the house over the winter and hadn’t flowered since Christmas…
it was really unhappy when I moved it outside for the summer… the first few days after the move were very hot and it got sunburned… since then many of the leaves have turned yellow and fallen off…
last week I spotted the beginning of the first buds… and a few days ago the first one started to open…
yesterday it was fully open and even after the rain it looked gorgeous…
and there were three blooms ready to open…
and this is what I saw this morning…
nature really is amazing… and beautiful…
