27 Thursday Jun 2019
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out and about today…
this morning caught a few shots of the CMHR as we were driving by…
I’ve tried many times to get a good photo of this building but still haven’t taken one that really makes me happy…
while I was waiting for my supper to cook, I got a few photos of this squirrel… it has taken a fancy to the rain barrel and I’ve spotted it quite a few times but this was the first time I got a picture…
26 Wednesday Jun 2019
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great excitement when I got home…
the back garden looked very different than first thing this morning…
before I left home…
and this is how it looked tonight…
all the weeds have been removed… next step will be to place landscaping cloth down around the perennials and then cover the entire area with rocks or mulch…
so happy that my gardener has been here to get things done…
24 Monday Jun 2019
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altered, big girl pants, blessed, daisy, flowers, garden, happy, iPhone, moments, nature, photos, pictures, wasp, widow
this morning I walked around the garden to get a few photos of the daisies that had opened overnight…
and I discovered this wasp (I think)… it was sitting on the daisy and not moving… I took a number of photos and then started to wonder if it was alive…
as I took the last two photos I could see it breathing, so was really happy…
I am rather pleased with this photo because it has not been altered at all;-)…
22 Saturday Jun 2019
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beloved, big girl pants, blooms, English Garden, garden, huge, poppies, widow
yesterday I was enjoying the poppies in the English Garden… they were huge…
reminded me of some others I’ve seen recently…
… one of the blossoms as it was opening in our garden…
… a photo that my daughter sent me from Ottawa as she was taking a walk…
… the giant poppies at the Park…
… then there is the postcard I received in the mail…
… and finally, a shot of the sunlight shining on one of only four blooms this year…
my beloved and I have always loved poppies and seeing them makes me remember him and fun times in the garden…
19 Wednesday Jun 2019
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early this morning watered all the plants in the garden with a bucket… it meant that I got lots of steps in and did a bit of weight training, lol…
summer is nearly upon us…
so enjoy the time to wander around the space and enjoy the beauty…
morning is my best time… by the end of the day I am often just interested in vegging out in front of the tv…
11 Tuesday Jun 2019
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big girl pants, busy, creeping Charlie, dandelions, garden, grandson, happy, mowing, patch, schedule, widow
happy that my grandson has been able to add mowing my grass on Sunday’s to his schedule… he has a busy one now that he is working a full time job, a part time job, volunteering weekly, and participating in rowing events…
as he was mowing the back I went out to take a picture and he stopped so I couldn’t get him in the shot… brat…
I did catch him a couple of minutes later, lol…
nice to have the creeping Charlie and dandelion patch trimmed back…
10 Monday Jun 2019
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big girl pants, close, garden, lucky, overflow, pond, poppies, shopping, swallow, top up, water, weather, widow
turned the hose on to top up the pond again yesterday… maybe the wind has been evaporating the water more quickly because it wasn’t particularly hot…
then I got focussed on a few other things… was on my way to the garage to go grocery shopping and decided to check out the poppies before leaving…
when I got over there I realized that the water was still going… turned it off just as it was going to swallow up the bridge…
yikes… that was close…
09 Sunday Jun 2019
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had some fun in the garden on Saturday… the forecast was for thunderstorms and rain during the day so I got out early to plant the purchases from the day before…
trying to stick to the purple and white theme although the dahlia might be a bit on the pink side;-)…
three pots planted, a few baskets hung, the tomato and mandevilla placed… also brought out the hibiscus…
still need to bring out the Japanese Maple, but going to wait just a bit longer so it doesn’t struggle with the move…
it is looking pretty good… now just waiting to get that back flowerbed cleaned up…
missing my beloved as I work away in the yard…
04 Tuesday Jun 2019
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so excited to get home yesterday because I received a message from my gardener, Hilda, advising she had been by and done some planting…
it looks great and I can hardly wait to see what happens when she tackles the bed across the yard, lol…
03 Monday Jun 2019
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fun in the garden…
finally got around to planting the lobelia and alyssum… the weather may have turned the corner, although it was something like 4 degrees when I got up…
decided to plant in clumps, so all lobelia in some planters and just alyssum in others…
looking forward to watching them grow and seeing how they look…
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