26 Thursday Sep 2019
22 Sunday Sep 2019
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berries, big girl pants, birds, cane, Fall, flicker, nature, virginia creeper, widow, window, woodpeckers
for the last few days I’ve been watching the flickers on the roof of the garage enjoying the berries on the Virginia creeper… it has been a nice distraction as I go up and down the stairs, still using the cane…
they seem to gather around this time of year to fill up on ants and berries before heading south…
the other interesting thing about them is although they are woodpeckers, usually I see them on the ground, or in this case, on the garage roof…
12 Thursday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, garden, grateful, moments, morning glory, nature, simple, time, widow
been thinking of all I am grateful for in my life…
things as simple as my beautiful morning glories…
the option to take a cab somewhere if that makes the most sense…
the ability to make whatever I would like for my dinner…
opportunities to visit with friends…
being able to thank special people…
having time…
31 Saturday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, Falcon Lake, magnet, nature, pictures, purple, screen, shopping, widow
last year around this time we went out to Falcon Lake for some camping fun…
I picked up the cutest magnetic screen protectors, shaped like butterflies… I put the three of them on the patio screen door…
recently I caught this picture of an actual butterfly on the screen…
wondered if it was having a visit with its magnet friends, lol…
16 Friday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, English Garden, flowers, gaggle, garden, geese, iPhone, Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, nature, photos, pond, walk, widow
this morning had a great walk to the Park…
on my way saw a bunny and a gaggle of geese… crossed the street so as not to disturb them… was a bit of a surprise to see them on a sidewalk, but maybe they were checking out the Little Library, lol…
crossing the walking bridge I spotted a brief of pelicans… I think there were nine in total and there was a cormorant with them… it was clearly preening time…
my camera battery quit midway through my walk so I took the rest of the photos with my iPhone… it always makes me giggle when it announces that it is exhausted, lol…
today I seemed to lean toward white…
although I did focus on a few frogs, lol…
a much less crowded visit than the one on Sunday… the one sad thing was that our bench was being watered so I couldn’t sit…
ended the visit checking out the ducks and geese at the Riley Family Duck Pond…
29 Monday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, boat, camping, family, flowers, memories, moments, moss, nature, tree, widow
woke up at 6 to pouring rain… by 8 it was done and the sun came out, although it was windy… we spent the day on the water…
early morning water drops on the boat…
throughout the day we spotted many geese, a pileated woodpecker, two deer and a fawn, an eagle, maybe an American Three-Toed woodpecker, and one very large Jack fish which my son-in-law caught…
bacon, eggs and hash browns for breakfast and steak, baked potatoes and onions, with mushrooms for dinner… pretty fine eats;-)…
cool temperature-wise but a great day;-)…
the flowers were at the dock… the moss covered tree is at the campsite…
23 Tuesday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, buds, flowers, garden, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, widow
took a few moments this morning to stop and take a few photos of all the buds on the mandevilla…
there are dozens of them…
wondering how many will open up at once and looking forward to seeing what happens…
nature is so amazing…
24 Monday Jun 2019
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altered, big girl pants, blessed, daisy, flowers, garden, happy, iPhone, moments, nature, photos, pictures, wasp, widow
this morning I walked around the garden to get a few photos of the daisies that had opened overnight…
and I discovered this wasp (I think)… it was sitting on the daisy and not moving… I took a number of photos and then started to wonder if it was alive…
as I took the last two photos I could see it breathing, so was really happy…
I am rather pleased with this photo because it has not been altered at all;-)…
03 Friday May 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, bliss, favourite, favourite thing, flowers, food, garden, leaves, moments, nature, orchid, orchids, photos, pictures, trees, vacation, waterfall, weather, widow
I’ve been asked by a number of people to share my favourite thing about Maui…
so I’ve been thinking about it… and I can’t come up with just one thing…
over the last week I’ve printed a group of my favourite photos… and have been looking them over and remembering the particular moments each one represents…
there were so many special times… the ocean, the beaches, the rainbows, the trees, the turtles, the vegetation, the orchids, the flowers, snorkelling, the waterfalls, the food, the helicopter flight, the cacao trees, and on and on…
it really was two weeks of bliss;-)…
04 Monday Mar 2019
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555, 7 years, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, gone, hoarfrost, memories, moments, nature, Park, pictures, remember, widow
tomorrow marks 7 years since my beloved left this earth…
Google tells me that it is 2,555 days since that day…
I’ve been remembering some of the fun things we did during those last weeks…
you would think after seven years it would get easier…
but it doesn’t …
this is the last picture I took with him… it was Sunday, March 4, 2012… we had taken a drive around the Park so I could get some photos of the beautiful hoarfrost… this tree is on the drive to the Park… he had to stop in the middle of the road so that I could get the shot I wanted;-)…
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