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basking…

12 Friday Jan 2018

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I continue my focus on being in the moment…

this morning I stopped and turned on the garage light so I could get a few shots of the hoarfrost on the windows…

it was something like -41 at the time, lol…

throughout the day I enjoyed a few special moments as well… the sun was shining through some windows and I was able to spend a moment basking in the light… over lunch I sat in the sun and felt the warmth on my body…

every time I answered the phone I remembered a former colleague who said she always put a smile on her face before picking up the phone because it made her sound happy…

it was a good day…

frigid…

07 Sunday Jan 2018

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lots of beauty last Friday…

caught the sunrise out the bedroom window… frigid out there but it looked beautiful…

took a nice shot of it out the patio door a bit later…

finally got a shot of a sun dog… which once again demonstrated how cold it was…

we were out and about and as we returned home got this lovely shot of a bit of hoarfrost on the Virginia creeper…

haven’t seen much hoarfrost this winter…

the kids have returned home now but this is a lovely memory of our time together…

drive…

26 Tuesday Dec 2017

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been thinking of my beloved a lot over the last few weeks…

recently took a drive through the Park and was remembering all the drives we had taken through it… we often enjoyed going to the Park Cafe for breakfast on a weekend morning and then taking a drive around the Park so that I could get some photos…

we particularly liked it when there was hoarfrost covering the trees… haven’t seen any this year but as I drove through it was overcast and a bit dull, which was a reminder…

he would have been interested in the construction going on for the new project… he would have explaine all that was happening and whether he thought they were doing it correctly, lol… he always knew what every piece of equipment was used for…

took these shots as I circled around…

it really is a beautiful place for a walk or a drive…

enneagram…

27 Friday Jan 2017

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we often spend our lunch hour discussing various topics…

recently we’ve been talking about the enneagram… 

wonderful to have a variety of opinions and points of view… 

we are diverse, with ones, twos, sixes and sevens in the group… a great opportunity to see how each personality works at their best, and sometimes, not so best, lol…

these amazing women are always learning… I am so proud to be able to spend time with them and learn from and with them…

this shot I took of some hoarfrost on the garage window reminded me of how unique we all are, even as we are similar… and what a beautiful pattern we make together…

garage…

16 Monday Jan 2017

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yesterday I took a picture of a chubby squirrel sitting on the top of the neighbour’s garage…

chattering away up there as I was taking the picture… never noticed the amount of white on them before… although maybe this one is just old, lol…

and this morning, as I headed out to the garage, I thought I saw something, but it wasn’t until I started backing out of the driveway that I actually saw the bunny running toward the road… critters always bring a smile to my face… well, maybe not spiders…

when I closed the garage door on my arrival home I noticed the hoarfrost had created some patterns on the window…

reminded me of a visit to a friend’s house a few years ago where I got some stunning pictures in her garage…

looking forward to seeing her before too long as she has a new addition to her family who I am very excited to meet…

remembering…

05 Saturday Mar 2016

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woke up to hoarfrost everywhere…

  

it was beautiful…

  

the last thing that George and I did the day before he died was drive around the Park and take pictures of the beautiful trees covered in hoarfrost… 

seeing the hoarfrost was such a reminder of him… felt like he was sending me a message…

  
spent the afternoon with my daughter wandering through the mall… had lunch and picked up a couple of pairs of shorts…

when I got home PBS had a special of Simon & Garfunkel‘s concert in Central Park, New York City in 1981…

  
he loved Simon & Garfunkel… I spent an hour watching the program, enjoying the music and remembering… the songs had all been played here… comforting…

in recent days I have been walking down memory lane looking at many pictures… it has been fun to remember all the great times we had in the forty-three years we were together… 

what an amazing life I have had…
 

 
 

enjoy…

24 Wednesday Feb 2016

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the moon last night was spectacular… every time I went past a window I would take a few minutes to admire it… decided to just enjoy it and not even try to take any pictures…

trees were lovely this morning… lots of hoarfrost… was happy to look at them every chance I had on the drive in to work…

left early and had a lovely time shopping at Polo Park… eventually picked a pair of jeans and dropped them off to be hemmed… can’t ever find any pants that don’t have to be taken up…

I mentioned it to the woman who was helping me at Cleo and she gave me a 10% off card for Stitches for the hemming…

stopped at the Peoples Jewellers store to have my wedding band cleaned and had a lovely browse through their rings… saw a pretty amethyst one… my ring is getting loose and I wonder what I will do when it is too big to stay on my finger… should I have it sized or stop wearing it… this will be a big decision…

really wanted to get a pretzel while I was in the mall, but I kept walking… was hard though…

as I left I realized that I had enjoyed my shopping time… all on my own…

those big girl pants fit better more and more often…

  

designs…

09 Tuesday Feb 2016

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the mornings continue to get lighter, which makes my heart sing…

heading out to the car I took a few moments to take some pictures of the hoarfrost designs on the garage windows… so pretty…

  
the sun was shining brightly as I drove downtown…the blues in the sky were amazing…

throughout the day the sun cast beautiful designs on the floors and ceiling… makes a person feel warm and cozy… 

on my drive home had to use the visor because the sun was still shining so brightly…

  
stopped in and got a haircut and when I arrived home it was still bright outside…   

 
sunlight makes me happy…

crystallizing…

04 Monday Jan 2016

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got a few shots of the hoarfrost on the garage door windows…

  
took these with my iPhone and then blew them up a bit…

can’t believe how beautiful they can be…

wondering how I can get more of them on the window… maybe if I warm it up and wipe it off and then let it start crystallizing again… hmmmm…

frost…

27 Friday Nov 2015

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last night I was quite excited to look out and see that the solar powered lights glowing…

  
that means the sun had been shining during the day…

  
really enjoying the sunlight as much as possible… today I was commenting on the sunlight streaming through the office windows…

was very pleased tonight when I arrived home and looked at the garage windows… had to get out my phone to take a few pictures…

  
a few years ago I was at a friend’s house and got some amazing shots of hoarfrost on her garage windows… so these pictures reminded me of that special evening when we decorated her living room for Christmas…

  
frost is amazingly beautiful…

as I walked up to the door my phone chirped with a text from another friend who had just cuddled up on her couch with a crocheted blanket I had made for her a year or so ago and wanted to tell me how she enjoyed it… 

lovely memories to finish off a long week…