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2017 Ottawa day 3…

02 Saturday Sep 2017

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2017 Ottawa day 3, big girl pants, dinner, family, flowers, fun, Kingston, moments, paddle board, pottery, Public Market, shopping, sunshine, SUP, vacation, widow, wobble

began our day at the Kingston Public Market where we picked up veggies, flowers, and treats to take home…

it is a cute little Market with many food vendors and artisans… found some maple syrup and pottery to bring home…

stopped into a bakery, an Italian grocery store and a butcher shop to finish off the items needed for our dinner…

then it was off to Sydenham Lake to christen the new SUP…

my daughter had a lovely paddle on it and enjoyed every minute…

after her first round she came in and gave me instructions and assistance to give it a try…

my goodness it is difficult… at one point I asked what was making the board wobble so much and she announced it was me, lol… took a short paddle after she helped me onto the board, then did kneeling paddle boarding… rested for a few minutes and did one more round of the standing up version… lots of fun but exhausting;-)…

I would do it again, as long as someone was there to get me up on it…

fabulous steak dinner with beets, fingerling potatoes and green beans…

now for a movie and then to bed…

laugh…

29 Tuesday Aug 2017

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had to skip walking on the treadmill this morning so I could water the plants in the garden…

it has been amazingly hot over the last few days… I don’t like to water in the evening, so was happy to take the time early to get the job done…

the morning glories are exploding everywhere… the ones that are trying to come up through the table make me laugh…

for years we have had Virginia creeper growing along the north side of the garage and it never had berries… it has grown over the pergola into the south side and since that has happened it started to produce the berries…

this morning I got a few nice shots of some of them…

too bad we can’t eat them, lol…

move…

26 Saturday Aug 2017

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big girl pants, chocolate, family, Fitbit, flowers, grandsons, morning glories, move, photos, shopping, treat, widow

continued with the preparations for my trip…

ran out this morning to pick up a bit more chocolate to take with me…

on my way out I, of course, had to take photos of the morning glories that were blooming…

everything was rather thirsty but I didn’t have time then to water…

picked up treats at a few stores, including lunch for when I got home…

it was delicious…

my grandsons stopped by because I was hoping to move some furniture and needed a bit of help… sadly, after we moved a few things, we discovered that the biggest piece wasn’t going to make it through the hallway… oh well, so much for that…

since then I’ve spent time napping, watching some sports on tv… and fixing my Fitbit app so that my steps transfer to MyFitnessPal… hurray…

seeing…

25 Friday Aug 2017

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big girl pants, flowers, garden, hydrangeas, moments, morning glories, purple, seeing, special, time, widow

started my day with flowers in the garden…

very few purple morning glories today… for whatever reason the flowers are much more pastel these days…

I ended the day with this shot of my bouquet in the bedroom…

the sun was coming through the window and highlighting some of the daisies and the hydrangeas from the garden…

so happy when I get to spend a few moments seeing the beauty around me…

hope your day had a special moment or two…

market…

17 Thursday Aug 2017

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big girl pants, flowers, food, fresh, gladioli, market, purple, shopping, supper, walk, widow

went to the Farmers Market today and picked up a few things…

got tiny cucumbers and potatoes, a cauliflower, peas, two kinds of buns, a chocolate bar and 3 purple glads…

as I walked home with my treasures lots of people commented on the gladioli…

for dinner I had roasted country style spareribs along with new potatoes and dill, beets from last week, and cucumbers in vinegar and water… delicious…

wonderful to have access to fresh food so close to the office…

life is good…

sweetie…

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, memories, morning glories, pictures, surgery, sweetie, widow

seven years ago today I had surgery to remove my gallbladder… I had already been in the hospital for five weeks with pancreatitis but they had to wait till I was a bit stronger… I do believe that was the most serious illness I’ve dealt with, and the sickest I have ever been…

we had been scheduled to go to BC but had to cancel that trip…

George would come to the hospital every day and he would take a picture of the morning glories which were blooming that day before he left home…

today’s picture reminds me of that sweet gift that he brought me each day…


we only had one pot filled with the morning glories and they had just started to bloom around that time…

every morning, as I hunt for the newest blooms, I think back to those days and how my beloved took those pictures for me…

he was a sweetie…

culprit…

07 Monday Aug 2017

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big girl pants, bunny, cocoon, culprit, flowers, garden, goldfinch, sleepout, visitors, widow

woke up to see x marking the spot above me…


think it was just so I knew where I was… 

it was chilly in the night so I did get up and put on a hoodie… my little cocoon ended up just right…


had a few visitors over the last few days…

the goldfinch has come by both days and let me get a few nice shots…


also had a bunny stop by for a visit…


must have stayed there for half an hour…

some type of bug has been munching on the morning glories… wasn’t so bad when it was just the leaves, but now the flowers are being affected;-(…


going to have to see if I can figure out who the culprit is…

gardens…

03 Thursday Aug 2017

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big girl pants, English Garden, flowers, garden, memories, nature, pelicans, pictures, pond, sunlight, view, walk, widow

had a lovely early morning walk to and around the Gardens at the Park…


first time the pelicans have been around this year when I’ve been on my walks…

the Gardens are lovely right now…


the gardeners were everywhere and the sprinklers were rather a danger… took quite different paths so I didn’t get drenched…


last week I got a shot of this bench with a woman seated on it from the other side of the garden… looks different from this point of view…


the view from our bench… and here’s the bench…


as I left the Gardens the path was beautiful with the dappled light…


great start to the day…

buds…

27 Thursday Jul 2017

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beloved, big girl pants, bloom, buds, Courtenay, dahlias, flowers, garden, George, widow

took this photo of a dahlia in the garden getting ready to bloom…


although I just bought these this spring it made me think about the ones we bought in 2011 in Courtenay…

we went to visit the Dahlia man… he was very old and lived on a property at the edge of Courtney/Comox… I can’t remember the man’s name, but George would have… he remembered all that type of stuff…

we must have spent two hours with him… looking at all the dahlias which were blooming and then going through his boxes and ziplock bags filled with tubers… he and my beloved talked and talked, lol…

we brought home some of the tubers and he sent more later…

they bloomed beautifully and at the end of the season we lifted them and packed them up for the next year… sadly they were put in ziplock bags and in the spring were all mushy… we hadn’t let them dry sufficiently before bagging them…

both of my girls have developed the same ability to talk to anyone anywhere and know all about them by the end of the conversation… makes me giggle… so not me…

dragonflies…

25 Tuesday Jul 2017

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an ture, big girl pants, blessed, dragonflies, family, flowers, garden, light, memories, moments, morning glories, purple, storm, widow

every morning I am so eager to go out and see which morning glories are blooming…

when I looked out today I couldn’t see any and wondered if the huge thunderstorm in the night had beaten them down, as they are rather delicate… seems if something touches them they will mark very easily…

but, when I headed out on the way to the garage, I found lots…


I can’t get enough of the light that glows from deep within them…

my son-in-law in Cold Lake sent me some shots of a dragonfly tonight after supper… added one I’d taken a few days ago, lol…


dragonflies are so cool and beautiful… and wonderful how they eat the mosquitoes…

so important to take the time to savour the moments in life…

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