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NYC day 2…

16 Saturday Apr 2016

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up fairly early considering what time we went to bed, lol…

walked and walked and walked… saw flowers blooming everywhere… 

  

rode the subway again… took a rickshaw tour of Central Park… what fun… great way to see most of it and learn fun facts… a beautiful place…

  
caught a Canada Goose resting on a rock with a turtle… 

  
saw the city vistas from Top of the Rock… 

 

Central Park from Top of the Rock

  
 
bought and ate a tiny bit of chocolate… went on an open double decker bus tour, walked partway across the Brooklyn Bridge… strolled along the riverside at Battery Park… had a delicious supper at Beaubourg… and ended the day with a glass of Baileys…

 
sunshine and warm weather make the day very enjoyable…

snowflakes…

01 Friday Apr 2016

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from Spring flowers to huge snowflakes… what a day…

  
yesterday I picked up some daffodils and irises… really wanted to add some life to the house… have some upstairs and others in the living room…

  
makes me happy to have the bright colours around…

also fairly sure I listened to a robin singing while I was laying in bed… and the geese flying over… seems like every day I am hearing new bird songs as they are returning…

around six fifteen tonight I looked outside and saw huge snowflakes coming down very quietly…

  
had stopped at Krevco earlier and had the water tested… made sure to put all the chemicals in so that I could go out and have a hot tub… been waiting for the fresh water to get up to the correct temperature… not sure now if I’m going out there tonight or not…

  
pretty though…

Easter…

27 Sunday Mar 2016

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woke up to a phone call from my grandkids wishing me a Happy Easter at 7:30 in the morning, lol… they were very excited to share all about the treats they discovered around their house…

then I went downstairs and on the way spotted the bunny outside…

  

must have just been getting home from all those deliveries…
 
last night I decorated the living room… even put some tulips into the bathroom…
  

flowers make me happy… finished the dining room and set the table for dinner… 

had picked up pencil crayons, colouring books and a few reading books for the boys which I put into the glass drawers in the living room table, along with more of the cute chocolate bunnies from the fundraiser…

  
amazingly, while I was sleeping, the Easter Bunny put mini eggs all over the table and elsewhere on the main floor…

missing my beloved… he had a great connection with the Easter Bunny and the two of them always made sure to find good hiding places for treats…

had a very quiet day as my throat has been sore for a while and I’m trying to rest up and get rid of it… lots of people have been struggling with miserable colds/flu…

kids came, searched and found all of the eggs… we had a lovely lamb roast for our dinner… didn’t realize that daddy wasn’t fond of lamb… oops… maybe that’s why we haven’t had it before… next year we’ll have ham, lol…

  
bit of trouble getting a good photo and some were wondering when they could actually eat… 

after dinner my son-in-law went off to work and the rest of the family headed home…

I am climbing into bed…

flowers…

25 Friday Mar 2016

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woke up to snow on the ground this morning… really, lol… it was lovely because I didn’t have to go outside into it… 

  
there was also a beautiful moon…

  
spent the entire day in my jammies taking it easy… 

did walk for half an hour on the treadmill and made zucchini basil soup… I might be a bit addicted to that one…

the whole house is permeated with the smell from the hyacinth… so I took a few pictures of all the flowers in the house today…

  
the light was wonderful in the dining room…

  
the sunlight on them was lovely… 

and finally I got a picture of the sun streaming into the living room…

  
so happy to have the flowers filling the house…

they make me happy… 

remembering my beloved who would make sure I had lots around, particularly at this time of the year…

spa…

13 Sunday Mar 2016

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had a lovely couple of hours at Thermea tonight…

a while before leaving the house all of a sudden it was very foggy…

 
could barely see on the drive over, but it was beautiful on the grounds… had a lovely view of the moon while we were sitting in the outdoor pools…

reminded me of the lovely hydropath at the Kingfisher Spa just outside of Courtenay, BC… tried to get there whenever I visited my daughter while she lived at the coast… have come a long way from the days when I could only stay in the steam sauna for about two minutes, lol…

today we spent the most time in the eucalyptus steam sauna… pretty hot and steamy… also really enjoyed sitting by the fire on this beautiful evening…

  
finally had the chance to go at night to see how it looked lit up… lovely…

a wonderful treat, thanks to the generosity of my colleagues…

final treat of the day were these flowers that jumped into my shopping cart…

  

creation…

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

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seemed like I was surrounded by creation today… some days it just jumps out at me…

on my way out to the car this morning stopped to take a picture of these bunny tracks…

  
came right up the steps to the front door…

at the office took some pictures of the tulips that arrived yesterday as part of a Lung Association fundraiser…

  
one of my colleagues really wanted a shot of the black centre ..

here’s a picture of my purple ones with a colleague seen through them…

  
just love flowers… how wonderful it is to see them all around the office…

as I walked up the driveway tonight I stopped to take this picture of the squirrel tracks…  

  

and I enjoyed this creation in the afternoon… jumped off the shelf when I was picking up milk for the office…

  
oh my… unfortunate about the 270 calories for 5 chips… only ate 3… considered just having these for supper but eventually thought better of it, lol…

beloved…

04 Thursday Feb 2016

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missing my beloved today…

first thing the toilet was acting up… time was when I would just tell him about it and he would fix whatever the problem was…

not these days…

had to dig out the appropriate equipment and solve the problem myself…

last weekend I had to go and find a different shovel so my shoveler can get down to the cement, and salt, so he could make sure the ground isn’t crazy slippery… also had to pick up a few bulbs so I could replace some burnt out ones…

I find choosing bulbs a very difficult job… there are so many and they seem to be similar but when you get them home they don’t throw the amount of light you expect, or are the wrong strength, or colour… arghhhh…

thankfully my son-in-law helped pick them and looks like they will all work…

many days I just do whatever needs doing, but other days I can barely keep from crying because he isn’t here…

today I happened to read a blog I wrote a year ago… it was all about flowers and how they have always lifted my spirits… also talked about how my beloved made sure there were lots around during January and February…

took this picture today…

  
beautiful… does make me feel better…

view…

28 Thursday Jan 2016

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woke up at 1:30 am to see the moon shining through the window… just above it and off to the side was a bright planet… a few seconds later it was covered by clouds… again, amazing to wake up at just the right moment to see the beautiful view…

then, on our way to the office, I got this view…

  
a Facebook memory this morning from four years back showed this lovely amaryllis… I had taken the picture looking out the window at the snow…

  
here is a picture of the amaryllis that I bought this year around Christmas… showed a beautiful pale pink flower on the box…

  
sadly, not a single blossom…

but the amazing thing is that the orchid continues to bloom… I so love flowers in the depths of winter…

  
more beautiful moments in my life…

beauty…

14 Thursday Jan 2016

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this morning my beautiful colleague and I spent some time laughing about our day…

  
we’ve been working on an all consuming project but can still laugh and have fun… she is a joy to work with…

she loves flowers and has the most amazing ability to arrange them…

I picked some up last week and yesterday she completely transformed them into another lovely arrangement…

  
I can hardly wait until tomorrow when we will be in a place with very beautiful flowers…

 

I think she is going to enjoy the beauty, lol… should be fun…

bouquet…

07 Thursday Jan 2016

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been a tough week, so last night I treated me to a lovely bouquet of flowers…

didn’t open the package and brought them to the office to perk up my space…

  
they look and smell wonderful and were a great bit of beauty as we worked on a project… enjoyed the perfume and looked at them many times throughout the day…

  
from one of my shots I made wallpaper for my phone…

  
going to take a few more pictures tomorrow before I start work…

lucky to be able to treat myself…