04 Thursday Jul 2019
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the mandevilla is getting close to blooming although it always surprises me how long it takes to actually open…
the photos below start around June 24th and end tonight…
will be interesting to see just when it opens…
09 Sunday Jun 2019
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, dahlia, flowers, garden, happy, hibiscus, mandevilla, planted, plants, pond, purple, rain, theme, weather, widow
had some fun in the garden on Saturday… the forecast was for thunderstorms and rain during the day so I got out early to plant the purchases from the day before…
trying to stick to the purple and white theme although the dahlia might be a bit on the pink side;-)…
three pots planted, a few baskets hung, the tomato and mandevilla placed… also brought out the hibiscus…
still need to bring out the Japanese Maple, but going to wait just a bit longer so it doesn’t struggle with the move…
it is looking pretty good… now just waiting to get that back flowerbed cleaned up…
missing my beloved as I work away in the yard…
13 Sunday Jan 2019
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attention, big girl pants, fed, greenery, grown, hibiscus, ignored, Japanese Maple, mandevilla, trimmed, widow
late in the fall my grandson brought in a few of the plants…
one was the mandevilla… it had grown long and through some of the bench on the deck so was very messy when it came into the house…
I ignored it until the other day… took the time to cut it back and feed it… looking forward to watching it over the next few months…
also trimmed and fed the hibiscus and Japanese maple…
I am sure they all appreciated the attention… we will see how they all do…
nice to have greenery in the house… makes it feel summery…
21 Friday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, delicate, garden, hibiscus, Japanese Maple, leaves, mandevilla, morning glories, stress, widow
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…
04 Tuesday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, flowers, garden, mandevilla, morning glories, raindrops, storm, widow
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;(…
21 Tuesday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, grandson, happy, mandevilla, morning glories, saved, waiting, water, widow
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…
23 Monday Jul 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, close, flashbacks, flowers, lonely, mandevilla, missing, moments, widow
not sure why, but I’ve been missing my beloved a great deal…
having flashbacks to walking into the hospital room the night he died…
this photo of some of the mandevilla blooms reminded me of how close we were…
18 Wednesday Jul 2018
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appetite, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cancer, exercise, family, flowers, foods, friends, garden, healing, health, mandevilla, moments, surgery, walk, widow
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…
17 Tuesday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, cement, family, flowers, garden, happy, mandevilla, moments, pictures, purple, supper, treat, water, widow
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…
13 Friday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, family, flowers, garden, mandevilla, moments, Park, phone, photos, pond, time, walk, widow
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…
