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dragonflies…

25 Tuesday Jul 2017

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every morning I am so eager to go out and see which morning glories are blooming…

when I looked out today I couldn’t see any and wondered if the huge thunderstorm in the night had beaten them down, as they are rather delicate… seems if something touches them they will mark very easily…

but, when I headed out on the way to the garage, I found lots…


I can’t get enough of the light that glows from deep within them…

my son-in-law in Cold Lake sent me some shots of a dragonfly tonight after supper… added one I’d taken a few days ago, lol…


dragonflies are so cool and beautiful… and wonderful how they eat the mosquitoes…

so important to take the time to savour the moments in life…

fishing…

17 Monday Jul 2017

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here fishy, fishy, fishy… 

that was how we started our early morning fishing expedition yesterday once we were on the water, lol…

within about two minutes of the lures being dropped over the side of the boat, as we were trolling, the first Jack fish was caught…


and they kept coming… the younger boys caught the first four and then we adults caught some as well… I was pretty excited when I caught one… totalled 11ish… some discussion as to whether they counted if they jumped off as we were bringing them into the boat, lol…


the last person to catch one was my son-in-law… he was using his fancy catfish rod that we picked up last week for his birthday… he was also the one driving the boat and bringing in the fish when they came up to the side…

between he and my daughter they were able to get the lures out of the mouths of the fish, who were really trying to swallow them whole… some of that process was a little gross…

July is not a time to eat Jack so we never did get to have fish for breakfast…

this was my early morning snack…


pretty fine place for a jar of chia pudding…

haul…

14 Friday Jul 2017

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started yesterday with a morning glory sighting… 

they are just so stunning… make me smile every time I see one… I am always astonished at the light that seems to pour out of the centre of them…

it was a lovely day so we had lunch in the Millennium Park… the sun was shining and Emptyful was misting rather nicely over us…

another colleague walked by and took this great shot of the four of us…


once we were finished eating a few of us walked over and around the Downtown Farmers Market… we were pretty quick but I was so happy to have found peas and small cucumbers…


what a haul… had a few last night and they are delicious…

ah, summer…

wings…

07 Friday Jul 2017

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seemed like there were lots of critters around and about today…

many with wings..

over the last few days I’ve noticed tons of dragonflies around… this morning when I came out to the garden there was a tiny one by the back door and then when I was sitting by the pond this one stopped by…

and posed rather nicely for me…

later in the day I caught this ladybug on one of the peppers in my daughter’s garden…

just a few minutes later this four legged turned up…

pretty little and my middle grandson thinks there might be a nest of them under the bushes…

a friend came by for a visit in the garden this morning and it reminded me of why I love it out here… even when it isn’t perfect it is welcoming and has a special feeling of peacefulness…

for the last half hour or so I’ve been watching the fish swim around in the pond… they haven’t been out much when I’ve been in the garden today, so it is a lovely treat to see them…

as I sit writing this, the solar lights are coming on one by one as it gets a tiny bit darker around the garden…

but, the bad news…. just spotted the first mosquito of the season;-(… not the type of critter I am happy to see…

magnetic…

24 Wednesday May 2017

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ordered a new band for my Fitbit Charge 2 online the other day…

took a while to get used to the feel of it as it is quite light and flexible… it has a magnetic fastener…

but the funniest thing is how it catches on things… magnetized things, like a grommet on my jeans…

the great thing is it fits my wrist exactly…

still waiting for the second one to arrive… it is purple metal, lol…

light…

09 Tuesday May 2017

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light… it brightens my life…

this morning I spotted the sun shining into one of our rooms at the office…

busy throughout the day and then tonight I got this shot of the light in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights…

light in the early morning and light late in the day… 

all of that makes me so happy…

cool…

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

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first morning this season that I didn’t need to turn on the light in the bedroom…

great sign that Spring really is coming…

been overcast for most of the day and it is still quite cool with a bit of wind…

looking forward to some sunshine although it might not turn up until Friday…

been a month since we were on the sun drenched beaches of Mazatlan… 

have to channel some of that weather, lol…

rising…

27 Monday Feb 2017

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yesterday morning I had a bit of fun taking pictures of the sun rising in the sky…

this is what it looked like at 7:24 as the sun was just peeking out through the trees…

then this as 7:49…

this was the last of the series that I took, at 9:09…

so beautiful and such a change when you look out the window at different times…

it was out for most of the day and even though it was cold and windy it felt great…

that bit of extra light and bright sky makes such a difference in my mood…

negative…

15 Wednesday Feb 2017

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for the last few days I’ve been noticing how much light there is in the morning and into the evening…

just yesterday I went down to the basement without needing to turn on a light…

got this lovely shot of the moon when I arrived at the office…

and at the end of the day I caught this beautiful sunset…

been thinking about how time goes by so quickly and how important it is to let go of the negative and focus on the light…

continue to work toward focussing on the good… and not letting myself get stuck in the negative…

happier…

09 Thursday Feb 2017

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been in conversation with a number of people recently over the fact that it is lighter every day… although it is very cold today and has been for a few days everyone is chirpier and seems to have lighter steps…

took a picture as I was leaving the house before eight this morning…

look at that daylight… 

ran across to the drugstore and the individuals I passed on the street seemed in better humour as well…

it was overcast for most of the day, but my mood is so much happier with just this little bit of extra light…