23 Thursday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chatting, fun, garden, haircut, Hilda the Gardener, memories, moments, plants, visit, widow
so happy that my friend, Hilda the gardener, came by last Friday for a drink, visit, and a haircut…
we spent a lovely hour chatting and laughing about life in general and gardens in particular…
then she dealt with the overgrown mess that was my hair, lol…
looks and feels so much better now;-)…
13 Monday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, necklace, sculpture, snow, snowperson, weather, widow
someone built a very nice snowperson a few weeks ago and it has been happily sitting in the field across the way and I’ve enjoyed watching it…
recently, with the warmer weather, it has started to shrink a bit;-(…
and yesterday, when I looked out the back, I noticed this lovely necklace hanging from the bird feeder…
looks like a cool sculpture… wonder how it will look next…
11 Saturday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, garden, light, moments, nature, pond, snow, solar light, spotlight, sunny, Technology, warm, weather, widow
excited to discover the spotlight on the upper deck is working again…
it had been covered with snow for many weeks and I was thinking it wasn’t going to work in the cold…
as I was walking down the stairs on Thursday night, I looked out and saw the light….
apparently the warm and sunny weather uncovered the solar panel on the top of it, lol…
makes me happy, although the camera isn’t out there now…
not like there are fish in the pond that need to be protected, lol…
10 Friday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bonsai, French fries, friend, friends, garden, greenhouse, McDonalds, moments, nature, photo, plants, Shelmerdine, shopping, snack, succulents, widow
had a tasty snack on our way to Shelmerdine… haven’t had fresh McDonald’s French fries in I don’t know how long… had a couple of nuggets to go with them, but it was the fries that made my day;-)…
had fun wandering amongst the plants… it was surprising how many varieties of succulents were available…
here’s a photo my friend sent of the two that she picked up and transplanted;-)…
got a few photos of some of their bonsais to share with my grandson…
lovely to spend a bit of time enjoying the greenhouse and I even left without purchasing anything…
when I was searching the internet for a link to their website, I came across this great information on plant care;-)…
fries and gardens… doesn’t get much better than that…
08 Wednesday Feb 2023
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backdoor, big girl pants, blessed, filled, garden, hose, hot tub, moments, scrunch, temperature, water, weather, widow
this morning, I dragged the hose up from the basement, out through the backdoor, and into the tub…
last night I had a great time in the hot tub, but had to scrunch down as the water was rather low…
only took about ten minutes to fill it up… now we will see if it gets up to temp by tonight;-)…
03 Friday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fourteen, garden, grandson, hot tub, memories, moments, remembering, stress, time, trajectory, trauma, widow, work
my youngest grandson just turned fourteen…
brought back a number of memories as his birth changed the trajectory of my life…
because I refused to miss his birth, I ended up leaving a job I had been at for ten years, as the boss wasn’t pleased that I had taken away time from my position… a lot of trauma occurred over the next while and eventually I was walked out of the office…
one good thing that came out of that was the hot tub, as I was awarded a year’s salary due to my wrongful dismissal and purchased it with some of those funds…
there was huge stress and tension and the hot tub has helped with that for many years now;-)…
after a number of months I found the perfect position where I flourished for nearly ten years before my retirement…
lots of things to sift through…
this photo was taken in 2020, when I was still keeping my distance from everyone, but it does show him and the hot tub together, lol…
hard to believe it all began fourteen years ago…
29 Sunday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, flowers, garden, moments, Morpho, nature, plants, search, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sunshine, Technology, widow
lots of butterflies in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… also many people…
the sun was shining so they were flitting about the whole space…
the blue Morpho butterfly is very sneaky and would not let me catch a single photo of it with the gorgeous blue when the wings are open…
next time I will take a video and then a still from that, lol…
the butterflies arrive as chrysalis from Costa Rica on a regular basis and are released into the space once they emerge…
so, each time you are in the Garden, there will likely be different varieties…
it is such fun to search for them in amongst the foliage…
27 Friday Jan 2023
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amaryllis, begonia, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, living wall, Mediterranean biome, moments, nature, plants, spiral, Technology, The Leaf, Tyndall stone, walk, widow
enjoyed the Mediterranean biome… as soon as I enter I am reminded of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights… I think it is all the Tyndall stone, the spiral walkway, and the industrial looking steel…
the living wall is huge and amazing…
and the spiral begonia was so pretty…
the amaryllis are stunning…
it is lovely to have such a beautiful space to visit during the winter months…
25 Wednesday Jan 2023
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Tuesday was my third trip to The Leaf…
they are making improvements all the time… it looks like they may soon have machines so you can purchase your ticket without standing in line…
we had a lovely time walking through the biomes… it was quite warm and humid in the tropical biome and there weren’t too many people when we arrived around ten am… by the time we left, just before noon, the place was starting to fill up…
the gardeners were working in the space cleaning up fallen leaves and checking the temperatures around the various areas… had a lovely chat with one of them…
I seemed to focus on orange flowers this time;-)… and I was happy to see the coffee beans even though I don’t drink coffee, lol…
love the banyan tree and got shots of a few others… can’t wait to watch them as they grow… and I found a couple of banana trees…
the waterfall is adding a lot of humidity to the space…
got a nice shot of the other direction from just under the waterfall…
and a view from the catwalk…
looking forward to more visits and to watching the areas change and grow…
21 Saturday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blurry, cold, garage cam, garden, moments, nature, raccoon, snow, surprise, Technology, weather, widow
I was surprised to see this on the garage cam this morning… it is a bit blurry, and at first I thought it was a cat, but then I recognized the tail…
thought these guys were gone for the winter, lol… although I don’t care if they come by when there aren’t any fish in the pond for them to eat;-)…
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