heavens…

06 Friday Oct 2017

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of course, on a day off I woke up at 5:30, so I headed out for a hot tub…

the heavens were amazing and the moon was huge… the stars were very bright and I was able to get a picture of Orion’s Belt…

considering it was on my phone it came out pretty good, lol…

the streetlight shining on the lawn furniture was also lovely…

as I was driving toward my appointment this morning the moon looked like it was close enough to touch…

happy I stopped and took a few photos, because by the time I got out of the car, it was gone…

had a nap this afternoon;-)…

2017 Ottawa day 7…

06 Wednesday Sep 2017

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took the bus, on my own, to meet my daughter after she got off work…

we had lunch at Bier Markt... and I tried oysters again… they were yummy, who knew…

then we went to see Kontinuum… it is a free light show in the new subway… it was quite neat…

afterwards we walked over to the Parliament buildings and took a few tourist-y shots…

the bus from her house to downtown was just an ordinary one, but on our way home we got on a bendy bus… yay…

took a few pictures of trees and leaves on our walk from the bus to the house… the maple leaves are beginning to change colour… very pretty…

after supper we did a small 100% cacao chocolate tasting…

and ended with the cutest little Brix bar which is made to slide over a wine bottle…

wonderful…

28 Monday Aug 2017

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just spent the evening with the most wonderful women in my life…

we had a short stint in the hot tub and then sat out on the deck and caught up on our summer…

a beautiful evening which ended under the stars…

lovely to have time together…

below are a few shots of the morning glories that began my day…

they have the most wonderful light emanating from their centre… always make me think of my beloved…

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…