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collecting…

01 Saturday Oct 2016

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this morning I got up to a beautiful looking sky…

drove over to the Formal Gardens at the Park… the drive was lovely as the trees are just amazing… as I was going down the street beside the park had to stop and get a shot of some geese having a snack…

took a picture of Shadow in front of a section of the Gardens… looking pretty fine;-)…

as I circled the area a few groupings of trees caught my eye…

gorgeous colours…

the canopy of trees really draws my eyes, every time I walk the circle…

moss… 

although I come to collect poke balls I find I can walk faster and possibly longer than when I go to the English and Leo Mol Gardens… of course, when I go there, I walk from and to home… 

filled with shades of orange and green and very bright when the sun shone…

leaves are falling fast…

and I collected lots of poke balls and hatched a few eggs…

nap…

23 Friday Sep 2016

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Fridays are becoming quite the busy days, lol…

this morning I walked in Bruce Park so I could collect poke balls and then went out for an appointment with my daughter…

inside the entrance of Bruce Park…

leaves are on the ground everywhere…


then it was downtown for lunch at La Roca after we did a little shopping and Pokemon Go-ing…

delicious fish burrito…


great opportunity to take some pictures at the Millennium Library Park…

planters right behind our building…

one of the ponds…


after lunch we picked up my grandson and some teammates and were off to a volleyball tournament…

geese flying over the school…

great shot by my grandson…


home by six and then I had a nap;-)…

listen…

12 Monday Sep 2016

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been thrilled to get some great shots of Canada geese over the last few days…

I love the sound as they arrive in the Spring… and their calls as they travel through the sky on their way to and from the fields where they are now filling up for their flight south…


I hear them and usually, by the time I get the camera up and focused, they are gone… got most of these at the Park…

a few days ago I started my morning listening to them flying over the house… the next night I heard them flying by just after dark…

one year we went to FortWhyte Alive and watched the evening return of thousands of geese from their feeding grounds… the sight and sound was amazing…

of course the sound in the Fall is a bit sad because they are either preparing to leave or actually going…

still it stops me in my tracks wherever I am, and I gaze up to the sky until I spot them… hope you get to hear some where you are…

nature is awesome…

cuties…

29 Monday Aug 2016

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this morning I discovered a squirrel on the feeder in the front yard… I was surprised because I didn’t think they could get to it…

but apparently they can jump rather high… certainly explains why this feeder seems to be empty all the time…

over the last few days I’ve come across a few cuties…

this bunny was in the neighbour’s yard and posed nicely for the picture…

very happy with this picture of a couple of geese as they were circling for a landing at the Duck Pond…

and this is my absolute favourite… when I got back from my doctor’s appointment on Friday morning, the boys and I headed out the front door to walk to the Assiniboine Hotel for breakfast…looked to the right as we stepped outside and spotted this hawk sitting on the side of the neighbour’s truck…   

held onto my youngest grandson and everyone stood still and whispered while I got out my camera and took a few pictures… the boys had just been telling me about the purple finches they have spotted at their house… makes me happy to know they are starting to look around and notice…


thinking that maybe the raccoons have been over… that bird feeder on the ground was beside the gray planter last night, lol…

fun to enjoy the special moments when the creatures turn up…

guests…

31 Thursday Mar 2016

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woke early and looked out to see this lovely view of the moon…

 
a bit later I got ready and walked over to the “A” to meet my daughter for breakfast…
  
waiting for my guest… getting easier and easier to sit in a restaurant on my own… big girl pants, lol…

we went to a tile store to look at countertops for my upcoming kitchen reno…

it was great fun to walk through the shop, where they were cutting with giant tile saws, and the yard, looking at all the different options… they had to lift one out of a warehouse and bring it outside with a forklift… I think this is it…

  
made the whole process more real… I am getting a new kitchen…

we ran a couple of other errands before she dropped me at home and I was surprised to see these guests across the street…

  
we do have mallard ducks who live in the creek, but can’t remember the last time I saw geese around here… maybe they will stay and have babies;-)…

pictures…

23 Wednesday Mar 2016

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over the weekend I took a few interesting pictures…

this one is of the glittering snow on the roof of the garage…

  
a lovely pattern showed up as well…

when we were coming out of the store on Sunday I could hear the geese and when I looked up I saw them… it was so bright that I couldn’t see them, but snapped a few pictures…

  
not bad when I couldn’t actually see…

and finally I got this shot of the sun behind haze…

  
pulled over to take the shot… it was a strange sky…

the light was bright for all of these, lol…

stirring…

25 Sunday Oct 2015

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spent some time in the hot tub this morning…

  
had to put on my water boots and my touque… starting to be cold on the feet and the ears…

 

a dozen geese flew just over the house in total silence… wonderful view of them…  what a special moment…

as I was sitting there I was thinking of my new spoon…

  
reminded me of going to a family member’s cottage for weekends a number of years ago… George and I were both early risers and he would make coffee with two spoonfuls of sugar and a good dollop of milk… took a while to stir that sugar in, and the sound of the stirring would drive our host, who was trying to sleep in, crazy… got to be a bit of a private joke for us…

hadn’t thought of that for years, lol…

got my pictures printed and put them into two of the squares in the coffee table…

  
asked one of my grandsons to help me and he had a hard time because he thought they should line up exactly… eventually he gave up on the job and asked his mom to finish… we did have some fun looking at them and remembering the events…

hoping that visitors will also enjoy looking through them…

honking…

18 Sunday Oct 2015

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the Canada geese are gathering and preparing to head south…

yesterday they were everywhere when I was at the Park…

  
these ones were at the Duck Pond… this is the most I’ve seen here all year…

as I was watching the game I would hear the geese honking and look up in most any direction and see them leaving in droves…

   
to the north…

 and the south…

a seagull was on the move as well…

  
there were a lot of them, possibly because there were food tents… they like to be around food, lol…

last picture of the day were these three geese heading out to find their buddies, calling all the way…

  
there is just something about the sound of geese that compels me to look up, smile, and listen to the glorious sound…

sounds…

27 Sunday Sep 2015

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yesterday got a pretty good shot of the Canada geese flying over the zoo…

  
they certainly announce themselves when they head out… there are a lot of them there… as we walked we had to pay attention to where we were putting our feet, lol… the sound always stops me in my tracks…

saw a few of the bears while we were there… 

  
this one was eating something from the pond… not quite sure what it was, but it kept it entertained for a long time… 

started out rainy at the beginning of the day… heard a new birdsong, but couldn’t place it… we looked out and saw a ton of junkos chattering away on the driveway having a snack…

 this was just before we headed to the grocery store… they were very busy… they are back for their trip down south… usually see them early in the spring as they head north…

by the time we came out of the store the sky was clear and we put  the cushions out in the garden…

the boys were picked up around three and I sat out in the garden for a while longer…

bunny stopped by…

  
stayed around for a while… 

only sounds in the garden were the chickadees and the waterfall…

we were all enjoying the quiet, lol…

collection…

18 Friday Sep 2015

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have an interesting collection of pictures that I’ve taken over the last week…

on our walk through the zoo Tuesday finally got a shot of the geese flying over…

  
hard to get them flying in formation and in camera range…

came across this very large spider in a web at the front door when I got dropped off after Odysseo on Tuesday night…

  
the web keeps coming back after I remove it on a regular basis… this was the first sight of the spider…

driving to work on Wednesday morning I came across this group of bike riders who had a police escort as they were travelling down Portage Avenue…  
never did find out who they were and what they were doing…

caught this morning glory opening…

  
nice flowers today… received these at work from my kids…

  
just because…

and then when I got home was so happy to see the fully open morning glory…

  
  
been a lot of interaction with the natural world this week…