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beauty…

01 Friday May 2015

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beauty, big girl pants, flowers, pictures, tree, yoga

spent the day enjoying the beauty around me…

first thing, I took pictures of all the flowers in the house…

  
between the two purple orchids, the purple mums and the vase of spring flowers, the coffee table looks amazing… 

  
there are tulips on the dining room table as well…

at the office, we had more vases filled with beautiful flowers… shared them amongst the staff who were in…

spent the lunch hour at a wonderful restorative yoga class…

had time throughout the day to reflect on the amazing people I work with, and how lucky I am…

walked from the end of the street tonight and had to stop and take a picture of one of the trees, a Russian olive, I think… it is quite a lovely colour and the leaves are out now…

 

sat on the deck enjoying the sounds of the pond and reading for a while… 

looking forward to a wonderful three day weekend…

I am surrounded by beauty everywhere I look… 

flowers…

30 Thursday Apr 2015

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beautiful, big girl pants, flowers, orchid, wonderful

last night a colleague prepared a number of vases with flowers for an event we held this evening…

here is what one looked like…

  
just beautiful…

I had a wonderful time taking some photos and enjoyed every moment…

there are many flowers in the house… two orchids, purple mums, tulips and now these beauties…

wonderful…

gratitude…

17 Friday Apr 2015

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a pre-birthday treat this morning when the African Violet had flowers opening…

  

headed downtown early as I had a dental appointment to have my teeth cleaned… beautiful walk… and no cavities… 

brought in nuts, chocolate and fruit for the office to celebrate my birthday… find it such fun to treat my colleagues…

  

others brought in cookies as well…

treated to lunch out and when we got back was surprised with a rendition of Happy Birthday, a cute purple chrysanthemum plant in a bag for presentation, along with chips and a card signed by everyone…

  

when I got home the sun blasted into the living room and shone right on my collection of flowers and cards…

  

spoke with both of my girls, planned some of tomorrow’s celebrations and talked about our week…

I am filled with gratitude for another year where I have been surrounded with great colleagues, friends and family…

Jane’s…

06 Friday Mar 2015

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flowers, friends, Jane's, lunch

had a lovely lunch at Jane’s… met a great friend and we had a wonderful time… lots of laughter and sharing of stories… always enjoy our time together…

the space is bright and open and the ceilings are very high… the staff were so cute and worked very hard to make sure we had a great experience… it is staffed with culinary school students…I had lamb shank with couscous, broccoli rabe, ribbons of carrot and zucchini,  with a pear salsa… yum… everything tasted very nice although I didn’t finish the couscous… I still haven’t had any that I’ve enjoyed…

brought home my flowers after work… trimmed the stems and rearranged them into two vases… one for upstairs…



and one for the living room… the vase they came in is very beautiful…



what a lovely way to end a long week…

warm…

05 Thursday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, flowers, gentle, healing, memories, slippers, warm

I’ve been wearing slippers for the last number of months because the kitchen floor is cold half way into the room from the sliding doors…

this is quite unusual as I rarely wear things on my feet… I wear sandals all year round at the office…

what I am missing is the heated floor in the bathroom… can’t feel the warmth through the slippers…

when we put in the heating wires under the tiles we thought the heat would radiate out from the pad, but it didn’t we learned, so the space right in front of the sink is cold…

the day has gone by gently… messages and calls from family and friends… flowers from the kids, lunch with colleagues… surprise supper out with some of the kids…



I am home, cozy in my bed, thinking of my wonderful life…

had some great moments when people commented on Facebook about pictures and memories of George… warmed my heart…

it has been healing in a way… 

tulips…

23 Monday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, daffodils, flowers, Lung Association, orchid, tulips

this morning our delivery of tulips arrived… they are part of the Lung Association campaign…

I love flowers and in the depths of winter really enjoy them… just yesterday I had to toss the daffodils I had purchased the week before…

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some beautiful purple and white ones…

amazing how a little flower can perk me up…

spent time in the living room tonight with my friends and got to admire my gorgeous orchid… it is really stunning…

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took this picture of a macadamia nut dark chocolate which was a treat from Costa Rica… first chocolate I’ve had since November… apparently I was so excited I couldn’t hold still, lol… very tasty…

hard day…

14 Saturday Feb 2015

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hard day… been on the verge of tears for much of it…

George was very romantic… he always brought me flowers and chocolate on Valentine’s day…

I’ve been thinking back to our last Valentine’s Day… he had picked up a purple jacket that I’d seen at Rona and had been coveting… a single rose, cinnamon heart candies and a mushy card finished up the gift… it was a work day and he had it all organized in the kitchen when I came downstairs…

I keep thinking it will get easier, but not so much today…

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for the last two years I have sent flowers to the girls because he always made sure they had a rose that day… last year I cried throughout the whole ordering process… this year I didn’t have any problem making the calls… guess that’s good, lol…

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had a quiet day… did a few chores around the house and watched a number of PVRed shows…

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had a lovely chocolate strawberry with a cup of tea this afternoon as a treat…

made it through the day and looking forward to a more positive frame of mind tomorrow…

some days those big girl pants are painful…

flowers…

04 Wednesday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, flowers, orchids, roses

I’ve talked about how much I need flowers in January and February… they make me feel good…

here are some shots I have taken over the last couple of days…

pink rose...

pink rose…

this rose replaced one that drooped over last week… had to take a few pics because it had tiny droplets of water on it…

orange rose...

orange rose…

this rose is a stunning orange and was for a colleague’s birthday… another beauty…

mum and hydrangea...

mum and hydrangea…

this mum and hydrangea are part of a bouquet…

sadly, my hydrangeas are finally on their last legs… I have enjoyed them every day…

orchid...

orchid…

this is my orchid tonight… it is beautiful and seems to be doing very well…

what a lovely few weeks with so many flowers blooming around me…

flowers…

21 Wednesday Jan 2015

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big girl pants, flowers, George, light, treadmill

had a rather hectic day…

in amongst all the activity these beautiful flowers arrived…

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they were a surprise from my colleague, who is admiring them in the picture…

I love flowers and have been missing them the last few weeks… George always made sure I had live flowers during January and February to help make the winter easier… so far I haven’t been able to pick any up as it has been too cold to have them in the car… he would warm the car up and then pop the flowers in and rush home, lol…

on our way out of the office I had to stop and take a picture of the gorgeous sky…

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it was still light at 5:03… that is very exciting…

made dinner, had a nap and then walked on the treadmill for 45 minutes…

outside…

18 Saturday Oct 2014

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big girl pants, fish, flowers, leaves, outside, pond, pump

had a great sleep last night and as I was heading downstairs saw this lovely view outside…

IMG_8886.JPGthe leaves were a beautiful shade of yellow…

spent most of the day resting but I did work on some chicken soup…

IMG_8889.JPGnot quite done yet…

this afternoon my pond guy came by and put in a new pump…

IMG_8888.JPGit looks good, so far… we’ve decided to take out the uv filter and try putting a skimmer in beside the pond to collect algae and other debris… the thought is that it will be outside of the pond where I can get to it easily… this likely won’t happen until the spring… the fish are still happy outside but soon they will need to come in to their winter condo…

while out there I got a few pictures of some flowers that are still hanging on.. sadly we’ve already had a few frosts…

IMG_8887.JPGno sun today, maybe tomorrow…

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