Tag Archives: mandevilla

delicate…

21 Friday Sep 2018

Posted by in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , ,

put a note in my calendar the other day so that I would remember to bring the Japanese Maple in from the garden…

doesn’t look like it was affected by the cold weather which makes me happy… will watch and see how stressed it will be from the move… it is a bit delicate and often drops all of the leaves when moved…

still have to bring in the hibiscus and mandevilla… maybe on Sunday…

right now the morning glories are wrapped all around the mandevilla, lol…

raindrops…

04 Tuesday Sep 2018

Posted by in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , ,

this morning as I was leaving for work I was looking for morning glories amongst the mandevilla…

not a single one, but took some nice pics of the mandevilla covered in raindrops…

it poured around five in the morning and that made for some pretty pictures…

sure am missing my camera;(…

saved…

21 Tuesday Aug 2018

Posted by in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , ,

so happy that the morning glories were saved…

while I was away my grandson came by a few times and watered them… they are in small planters so need lots of water…

I’d been waiting for them to flower for weeks and the first bloom only came out the day before I left on vacation…

they are blooming in and amongst the mandevilla which is also blooming like crazy…

flowers sure do make me happy…

appetite…

18 Wednesday Jul 2018

Posted by in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

this morning I was reminded that six years ago today I had surgery to remove my uterus and repair a large hernia… just a few months after losing my beloved…

how my life has changed since then…

I did have cancer, but removing the whole thing meant no further treatment needed to happen, other than frequent checkups for the next five years…

for ten weeks I couldn’t lift anything… friends and family came by to do everything that needed to be done…

since then I have been well, although two years later I was diagnosed with diabetes… I’ve lost weight, been more active and changed my diet… thankfully I do not need to take any meds…

tonight, as I ate rice rolls that a colleague brought me, I was reminded of how little I ate during those first weeks… I had no appetite and a friend who came to stay with me worked very hard to find foods that would temp my taste buds, lol…

one of my fondest memories was the day I was able to walk out of the house and into the garden after being stuck inside on the main floor for over a week because I couldn’t manage stairs…

the garden is such a healing place…

cement…

17 Tuesday Jul 2018

Posted by in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

started my day watering planters on the deck and getting a shot of the second mandevilla flower…

from there it was off to work, where my colleague replaced the seat on my office chair… so happy and comfortable;-)…

at lunch workers were putting down cement on the Millennium Library ramp and I so wanted to put my footprints into it…

but, I didn’t…

ended the day with the most delicious dinner… summer in a bowl… new potatoes from the local grocery store, with small beets and purple beans from my daughter’s garden… what a wonderful treat… that first meal of fresh vegetables is always memorable… no meat required…

mandevilla…

13 Friday Jul 2018

Posted by in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , ,

spent quite a while on the phone with my daughter this morning… our conversation started as I was walking home from the Park…

finished the call relaxing in the garden before it got too hot…

and how exciting is this;-)…

finally the first flower on the mandevilla opened today…

there are dozens of buds so it will be interesting to watch them all open…

Barbie…

27 Sunday May 2018

Posted by in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , ,

much more relaxed day today…

started the day with a hot tub in the mist… while I was sitting there, looked over to see I had left cushions on one of the chairs, lol… luckily that chair was under one of the cedars…

happy to find a white mandevilla along with a couple of pretty baskets when I was out shopping…

picked up a few groceries, came home and had a short nap… spent the remainder of the day in the shade reading…

because it was so lovely out, I chose a steak for dinner… and I brought Barbie out of the garage to make it… usually I don’t bother unless the kids are over and they do the barbecuing, but did a great job of the meat and the asparagus… even cooked the mushrooms out there… forgot to take a picture of them on Barbie, lol…

delicious dinner…

shining…

19 Wednesday Oct 2016

Posted by in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , ,

had a lovely few minutes when I got home… walked into the living room to put away my purse…

the light was shining into the room and I went and got my phone so that I could take some pictures…

spent a wonderful few minutes taking shots of the various flowers in the light…

the sunlight was gorgeous as it streamed into the space…

the mandevilla is struggling with being in the house and the buds are opening in a very strange fashion…

love this picture of the new orchid with some of the blossoms in the light and some in shadow…

on Sunday my son-in-law adjusted my timers so they would come on a bit earlier… it has been great to come downstairs in the morning and have it light… but tonight it was dark…

apparently one of the bulbs is burnt out… not sure I have a replacement… guess I’ll be sorting that out, lol…

Roma…

20 Tuesday Sep 2016

Posted by in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , ,

my daughter brought me Roma tomatoes from her garden on Sunday and I finally put them on a plate and took some to work to share while they are at their best…

had a few with my lunch… they went well with the zuchinni basil soup… 

my colleagues enjoyed them too…  

sliced some on the mandolin – without cutting any of my appendages – and added them to the pita pizza for my supper…

included the last of my basil, some pistachios, and Brie cheese… and a few radishes on the side to get my veggie quotient… delicious…

have to remember not to eat too many tomatoes… although they are delicious, they are also filled with sugar…

the mandevilla still seems very happy… can’t even count the blooms…