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blossoms…

09 Monday Sep 2019

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got this shot of the morning glories before leaving for the office…

not only can you see the bloom that opened this morning (purple) but yesterday’s one as well (pink)… even a few mandevilla blossoms are visible…

good thing because it has been raining since leaving the office…

glories…

07 Saturday Sep 2019

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I am over-the-moon with excitement…

some time ago I realized that I hadn’t planted any morning glories and was very sad because I really love the flowers… the inner light is mesmerizing…

recently I realized that some seeds from last summer had sprouted in a large container of soil that was sitting under the deck… they hadn’t had any water or sunlight but were growing…

I moved the pot out into the sun and made sure to put water in it… and watched it every day…

a week ago I saw what looked to be buds and I’ve examined them each day to see what would happen… since then we’ve had quite a bit of rain, overcast skies, and cooler temperatures, so I’ve been worried they wouldn’t bloom…

but… this is what happened…

I spent extra time in the garden today sitting and enjoying the purple flowers…

I am in my happy place… flowers really do make me happy;-)…

fallen…

04 Wednesday Sep 2019

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I love taking pictures of raindrops on things… once the rain is over, lol…

it is very funny because I don’t like rain… but I like what it does after it has fallen…

I was also realizing how green the lawn is as I walked up the street after all the rain we’ve received recently… reminded me of Courtenay, BC, where the grass was usually brown most of the summer but once the rainy season came, everything burst into amazing shades of green…

sparse…

03 Tuesday Sep 2019

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got some shots of flowers and birds in the garden…

sadly it seems that the flowers are getting a bit more sparse… temperatures are falling and the light is receding bit by bit…

also got a few photos of the chickadees as they were flitting back and forth to the feeder… they move so fast that I am always thrilled when I get a shot…

took these with my actual camera…

wondering when I need to bring in the Japanese Maple and the hibiscus… if I wait too long they get rather grumpy and lose all their leaves, lol…

tenacity…

24 Saturday Aug 2019

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rather thrilled when I realized that my container filled with extra soil was growing morning glories;-)…

this pot was under the deck and wasn’t getting any water, so they have really toughed it out…

I pulled it out and gave it some water… might even move it up onto the deck so it gets more sunlight…

not sure if they will end up blooming, but I am hopeful…

just a couple of days ago I had a memory on Facebook showing one of my previous year’s blooms…

tenacity…

over it…

22 Thursday Aug 2019

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something happened recently that instantly brought back a very bad time in my life…

we always think we are over it, but the simplest thing can take us back in time in a flash and we relive the memories…

it is going to take some time to recover from the feelings that have resurfaced…

one step at a time on the journey…

gaggle…

16 Friday Aug 2019

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this morning had a great walk to the Park…

on my way saw a bunny and a gaggle of geese… crossed the street so as not to disturb them… was a bit of a surprise to see them on a sidewalk, but maybe they were checking out the Little Library, lol…

crossing the walking bridge I spotted a brief of pelicans… I think there were nine in total and there was a cormorant with them… it was clearly preening time…

my camera battery quit midway through my walk so I took the rest of the photos with my iPhone… it always makes me giggle when it announces that it is exhausted, lol…

today I seemed to lean toward white…

although I did focus on a few frogs, lol…

a much less crowded visit than the one on Sunday… the one sad thing was that our bench was being watered so I couldn’t sit…

ended the visit checking out the ducks and geese at the Riley Family Duck Pond…

whisperer…

08 Thursday Aug 2019

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for the last few weeks my desk has been a bit messed up as I had loaned out a small rolling filing cabinet…

this meant that all my plants, mainly orchids, ended up on the desktop, making it a bit crowded…

today, I got the cabinet back and our amazing plant whisperer reorganized the space… she remembered exactly how it should look, which was good because I couldn’t remembered what went where…

looks amazing now… and the space has a much calmer feeling;-)… ahhh…

stroll…

05 Monday Aug 2019

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walked to the Park this morning… before it got too hot…

had a wonderful stroll through the English and Leo Mol Gardens…

they are stunning right now… everywhere I looked there were beautiful flowers…

haven’t been over for a few weeks and was amazed at the growth in that time…

the heat is back on in the lily pond and the lilies are looking much better than the last few years… unfortunately I was there too early to see them completely open for the day…

nice to get some exercise and enjoy the gardens…