05 Friday Sep 2025
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bendy bus, big girl pants, blessed, dentist, drive, family, memories, moments, morning, Ottawa, small, widow
such small things give me joy;-)…
this morning, on a drive downtown to the dentist’s office, I spotted two different bendy buses;-)…
since I first saw one in Ottawa, while visiting my kids, just seeing one brings me happiness, lol…
great start to the day…
05 Thursday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, different, little free library, moments, morning, new-to-me, walk, weather, widow
today I added a couple of books to my stair library…
picked them up at a Little Free Library on my morning walk…
both are from some of my favourite authors;-)…
this was a new-to-me library as I took a slightly different route today…
08 Thursday Jun 2023
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13 Monday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, health, intentionally, moments, moon, morning, nature, sky, start the day, sunrise, weather, widow, window
this morning I was treated to this lovely view of the sky and moon over the neighbour’s house…
when I get out of bed, the first thing I do is look outside and enjoy whatever I see… sometimes it is the sun coming up through the neighbourhood houses, sometimes a bunny, sometimes it is overcast… just yesterday I saw the first grackle of the season…
I enjoy starting the day intentionally by checking out the sky…
04 Sunday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, birds, butterflies, garden, morning, patiently, photos, sparrows, squirrels, widow
had a fun time in the garden this morning…
when I walked out I frightened the baby bunny, but it came back a bit later for a snack…
and then the squirrels started running around… one was digging in the hibiscus pot… not sure what was going on, but went over and encouraged it to leave, lol…
a gray squirrel and a little red squirrel chased one another all around the garden to decide who got to be at the feeder… the red squirrel won that particular round…
the sparrows were in and out of the pond as they had drinks and baths…
and I spent the longest time waiting patiently for a black swallowtail butterfly, that was flitting around the garden, to land so that I could take a photo… eventually I got a few good shots…
two or three cabbage butterflies fly through the garden on a regular basis, but I’ve yet to catch one sitting still long enough to get a picture…
12 Tuesday Feb 2019
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28 Monday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, hooting, morning, mourning dove, owl, photos, widow
as I was leaving the house this morning I could hear hooting…
it wasn’t a mourning dove… it sounded like an owl, and was large…
I couldn’t get a good enough close up to really figure out what it was…
will see if it is there tomorrow;-)…
12 Thursday Oct 2017
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big girl pants, busy, colleague, early, learning, morning, slideshows, supper, Technology, traffic, widow
another beautiful early morning drive… was rather surprised by the amount of traffic…
ended my day with the last of the Thanksgiving mashed potato and green beans, made into patties and shrimp…
in between I learned some very cool things regarding photos on my phone… been trying for ages to save slideshows on my phone… and today a colleague helped me figure it out… so exciting… I do love technology...
gotta go and play now;-)…
28 Thursday Sep 2017
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the sky was filled with clouds at the start and at the end of the day…
although they were the same, they were also completely different…
last night there was a sun dog in the sky as we headed to a volleyball game…
it was quite spectacular and very odd as usually we see sun dogs in cold weather…
so much to see when you look up;-)…
27 Wednesday Apr 2016
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early this morning I got a shot of the sun rising…
sunrise
took a few pictures of the tulips I picked up a few days ago and brought to the office…
purple tulip
tulips
reminded me of a colleague who, on my return from New York, commented that most people who visit NYC post many skyline pictures… but I posted pictures of flowers, lol…
then she said: “which is so you“…
I do love flowers and plants and gardens…
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