07 Wednesday Mar 2018
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04 Sunday Mar 2018
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angels, beams, big girl pants, collection, handmade, light, moments, pictures, puppets, sunlight, widow
had some fun with pictures today…
reorganized a few items and took a few shots…
angels have been part of my collections forever… now it has been reduced to just a small group…
a few are handmade puppets;-)…
when my eyes aren’t glued to the tv, this is what I see… can see beams of light early in the day and also midday as well…
I do love sunlight…
26 Monday Feb 2018
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big girl pants, filled, flowers, happy, light, Manitoba Lung Association, roses, tulips, widow
flowers, flowers, everywhere…
had roses delivered to the office this morning for the staff members who were away on Valentine’s Day… had to laugh because they were nicer than the ones we had… these ones came with greenery and glitter, lol…
and shortly after that our Manitoba Lung Association fundraiser tulips were delivered… the office was filled with beauty…
every day the sky is filled with light which lasts longer and is brighter, and to have flowers on top of that just makes me happy…
06 Tuesday Feb 2018
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winter is often a down season for me… I really miss the light…
George always made sure I had lots of flowers throughout these darker months…
yesterday I was at the grocery store and bought flowers to brighten my space…
they will be in the living room and the bedroom at home and on my desk at work…
also noticing that the days are getting longer…
I already feel happier…
06 Friday Oct 2017
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big girl pants, early, heavens, hot tub, light, moments, moon, nature, Orion’s Belt, pictures, sky, stars, widow
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;-)…
06 Wednesday Sep 2017
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2017 Ottawa day 7, Bier Markt, bus, chocolate, Kontinuum, leaves, light, Ottawa, oysters, Parliament, Technology, tourist, vacation, walk
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…
28 Monday Aug 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, deck, friends, garden, hot tub, light, memories, morning glories, widow, wonderful
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…
25 Tuesday Jul 2017
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an ture, big girl pants, blessed, dragonflies, family, flowers, garden, light, memories, moments, morning glories, purple, storm, widow
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…
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…
14 Friday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, flowers, garden, haul, light, local, morning glories, purple, shopping, summer, sunshine, widow
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…
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