18 Wednesday Jan 2023
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Audubon, big girl pants, birds, blessed, calendar, checking, garden, learning, moments, nature, new, pictures, remember, widow
I’ve had fun checking out the birds on my Audubon calendar each day…
it has been interesting to see birds I don’t know and I also enjoy thinking about when I’ve seen those I already know…
07 Saturday Jan 2023
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, cold, frost, learning, moments, nature, photos, rime, sky, trees, weather, widow
the trees have been stunningly beautiful over the last while…
quite a bit of that time the sky was gray so even though it was lovely, it didn’t make for any great photos…
the last few days the sun has been shining brightly…
this frost appears to be rime frost…
from Weather Lab:
“With rime, the moisture comes from freezing fog water droplets that turn directly from a liquid state to a solid state, or through direct freezing. On the other hand, hoar frost occurs on a clear, cold night where water vapor sublimates: transitioning immediately from a gaseous state to a solid state.” Jan 5, 2021
we have certainly had a lot of fog recently…
14 Sunday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, drill, garden, learning, moments, nature, pond, shim, Technology, widow
moved the backyard wifi camera down a bit… also put a shim in so that it points down a touch more…
now it gets a little more of the area in front of the pond… may see critters as they wander past the pond, lol…
getting quite handy with the drill… no trouble to remember how to have it reverse when taking out the screw;-)…
what a pro…
25 Monday Jul 2022
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what a treat it was to watch a new batch of baby house sparrows test out their wings…
they kind of hover when they are trying to figure out where they want to land…
and they don’t really understand that a person might not be safe to land close to…
once they’ve finally found a spot, they sit there and call mom or dad to come and feed them… I finally got a photo of the feeding, although it is a little fuzzy, lol…
so cute to watch…
01 Friday Jul 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Canada, family, fireworks, gather, learning, memories, moments, munched, Park, popcorn, reading, remembering, Technology, trees, widow
in recent years Canada day has been a much quieter event for me…
for many years my beloved and I would have a gathering with family, friends and neighbours, and end the day with huge bowls of popcorn which we would consume as the fireworks went off at the Park…
chairs for everyone would be placed out on the street and there was lots of oohing and aahing at the fireworks as we munched on the popcorn…
this afternoon, I made a bowl of popcorn and munched on it thinking of the past and dreaming of a more inclusive future…
after forty plus years, the trees have grown so much that we could no longer see most of the display and over the last few years the Park hasn’t set off fireworks due to construction happening where the staging area used to be…
last year it felt like celebrating would be an insult to our First Nations peoples and so I spent time learning more of our sad history…
today I hung an orange heart on the front door and wore an orange shirt with red leggings… I continue to learn and support in ways that I am able…
I love this country and hope that we can do better… I am finding these to be very complicated feelings and continue to struggle with them…
24 Friday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, garden, ID, learning, moments, nature, Technology, widow
I am really enjoying a newer feature on the Merlin Bird ID app… it lets you record bird sounds and then, nearly instantly, tells you what bird you are hearing… I’ve used this free app regularly to help identify birds that stop by the garden to eat or drink…
this new option is great for times, a lot recently, when the birds aren’t coming to the feeders and you want to ID them…
in the last day, there’s been a house wren here, and this morning the house finch and chipping sparrow seem to be chatting, lol…
fun to know who’s around, even if you can’t spot them…
21 Saturday May 2022
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apps, big girl pants, blessed, citizen scientist, dragonflies, Ducks Unlimited, flycatcher, garden, iNaturalist, learning, moments, nature, widow
I watched a Ducks Unlimited webinar a few days ago on dragonflies and damselflies…
it was interesting and I learned some new things about them… I also learned more about iNaturalist, a free app that I have on the phone…
up until now, I’ve usually used Merlin to search out a species, whether birds or other creatures… going forward I will try to use iNaturalist to record what I find… and I will be what they call a citizen scientist, lol…
recorded this little flycatcher… first time I’ve seen one of them;-)…
27 Sunday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, keep learning, learning, moments, nature, seasons, snow, sunlight, sunshine, warm, weather, widow
following my learnings from the webinars I’ve been watching, I had a bit of fun taking some photos of me sitting and reading in the sunshine…
it is wonderful when the sun starts to feel warm when sitting in it…
these photos were taken with my Nikon on the tripod… it was fun to play with the lighting and timer, lol…
the sunlight is also coming back into the kitchen, and I took a few shots there using my iPhone…
as long as I don’t look outside and see all the snow I can celebrate that spring really is on its way…
23 Wednesday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, brain, iPhone, learning, moments, overworked, photos, Technology, webinars, widow, WordPress, yoga
gosh, I think my head might be hurting, lol…
I spent time watching three different webinars all on the same day…
the first was a chair yoga session… planning on doing these three days a week…
then I learned some interesting things regarding my website and ways to improve it…
and finally, information on using my iPhone to take better photos…
I enjoyed it all and in the end it was a good day, although my brain may have been slightly overworked, lol…
23 Sunday Jan 2022
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activity, big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, garden, learning, moments, nature, photos, snow, squirrels, tracks, weather, widow
one of the things I enjoy after a snowfall is seeing the tracks that the bunnies, squirrels and birds make…
it is fairly obvious that one or more bunnies are living under the deck… they climb a snowbank and then head underneath… there is lots of space under there…
the squirrels have been running around on the deck… likely the red ones are chasing the other squirrels and birds away from their stash…
soon the bunnies will be able to eat directly from the front feeders because the snow is getting so high, lol…
it is wonderful to have such a great view of nature just by looking out the windows…
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