13 Wednesday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, blooming, flowers, hoarfrost, house, lovely, Spring, trees, turning, under, weather, widow
what a lovely start to the day, particularly as I was feeling a bit under the weather…
Spring flowers are blooming… even if they are in the house…
hoarfrost on the trees and I got a few pictures…
the weather is turning;-)…
04 Monday Mar 2019
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555, 7 years, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, gone, hoarfrost, memories, moments, nature, Park, pictures, remember, widow
tomorrow marks 7 years since my beloved left this earth…
Google tells me that it is 2,555 days since that day…
I’ve been remembering some of the fun things we did during those last weeks…
you would think after seven years it would get easier…
but it doesn’t …
this is the last picture I took with him… it was Sunday, March 4, 2012… we had taken a drive around the Park so I could get some photos of the beautiful hoarfrost… this tree is on the drive to the Park… he had to stop in the middle of the road so that I could get the shot I wanted;-)…
02 Friday Nov 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, drive, hand, hoarfrost, holding hands, memories, Park, remembering, trees, widow
found this photo on Facebook… happy that I get these reminders of wonderful memories…
it is from ten years ago and is one of the few pictures that I have of my beloved and I holding hands… it is lovely to see him and such a great reminder of a fun day…
one of the things I miss is having his hand to hold when out and about…
the beautiful trees after the snow this morning were another reminder…
brought back memories of the day before he died when we drove all around the Park so that I could get pictures of the trees covered in hoarfrost…
12 Friday Jan 2018
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basking, big girl pants, hoarfrost, lunch, moment, remembering, sun, weather, widow
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…
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…
26 Tuesday Dec 2017
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Assiniboine Park, beloved, big girl pants, drive, hoarfrost, photos, remembering, trees, widow
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…
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…
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…
05 Saturday Mar 2016
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beloved, big girl pants, George, hoarfrost, memory, message, remembering, Simon & Garfunkel, trees, widow
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…
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…
