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wonder…

18 Friday Mar 2016

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I have been in complete awe over the last few days with the beauty and wonder of nature…

  
yesterday morning the world was covered with a thick blanket of snow… kept going from window to window looking out at the wonderful views…

  
the snow clung to the tree branches and bushes… 

 
as I was getting into the car had to take out my camera and get a picture of this…

  
my neck swivelled all the way downtown as I admired the gorgeous views of snow in trees… 
this morning it was still there…

  
and again I couldn’t get enough of it…

  
the trees across the creek were still stunning in their beauty…

  
walked down the street a bit so I could take a few more pictures…

such an exquisite couple of days… holding the beauty close…

countdown…

30 Saturday Jan 2016

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excellent day…

walked to the Park and met a friend for breakfast… nearly drove because it has been quite slippery, but I decided to take enough time to walk slowly…

  
it was above zero and beautiful weather for a stroll… 

one of the newer pieces of technology that I really appreciate is the countdown timer at stop lights… rather than just having a flashing red hand you can see how many seconds you have left to make it across the street…

 
really appreciate this particularly at the corner by the Park… not nearly as stressful to get across the road…

so excited to look outside and see my solar dragonflies lit up…

  
haven’t been on for months so it means the sun is getting stronger… woohoo…

and just a few minutes before I had looked out the window to see this…

  
spectacular… not five minutes later I walked by and the sky was normal blue…

nature is really putting on a show these days, lol…
 

sky…

06 Wednesday Jan 2016

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yesterday morning I had to stop the car as I was leaving the driveway to take a picture of the beautiful sky…

  
second exciting thing was that it was light out as I was heading to work… yay…

on my way home tonight it was still light, yay again… and I was mesmerized by the sky… it had light coming from behind the clouds… made me think of the northern lights…

  
very strange looking… as I pulled into the Ultracuts parking lot I got out and took a few pictures before going in to get my hair cut…

nature is so amazing…. 

was thinking how great it was that I had to run a few errands which took a bit longer than exoected because, if I’d been earlier or later, I might not have seen this spectacular view…

meditation…

16 Friday Oct 2015

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wonderful start to my day…

  
beautiful flowers, bunnies, bluejays and squirrels…   all within a few minutes… the wonder of having the moment to enjoy this lovely treat…


at yoga today we sat up against a wall and meditated for a while… especially liked being able to lean against something… apparently any comfortable position works, except laying down, lol… 

over the next weeks we are going to try different meditation methods… I am looking forward to it because I have always found meditating difficult… when I close my eyes all I see is black…

 

good to get back to my yoga practice… 

reenergize…

16 Wednesday Sep 2015

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took a few minutes of my lunch break to take a walk around the block and stop and sit in the Millennium Library Park for a few moments…

  
this grass just looked so lovely that I had to take a picture…

while I was sitting on one of the cool lounge chairs – which I have looked at and never had the opportunity to test out, until today – I took a picture of the view…

  
huge grassy area with Emptyful and the church spire in the background…

just a few minutes later a group of young men were playing boules or bocce right in front of me…

 

what a great way to reenergize on a busy day… 

insects…

17 Monday Aug 2015

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this morning before I left home I got a shot of my little caterpillar friend… a slow mover who is starting to get a bit bigger… really loves the parsley which is mixed in with the morning glory…

  
there are a number of insects that I don’t care for, but caterpillars, butterflies and dragonflies are not on that list… 

also took a picture of the mandevilla which is covered with blooms… so pretty…

  
not too many flowers on the morning glory… but gorgeous…

  
as I drove into the driveway, had to stop and take a picture of the dragonfly sitting on the garage…

 

wonderful to have and take the time to see what’s going on around me…

 

evening…

21 Monday Jul 2014

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rushed home to meet young friends who were wanting to borrow a prop for a birthday party…

they left and my friend arrived to pick me up to go for a walk at the Park… as we left home it had just stopped spitting… we had a lovely walk through the English Garden and around the Duck Pond…

the delphiniums were stunning in purple and blue,

delphiniums in main garden...

delphiniums in main garden…

lovely water lilies in the Leo Mol garden although all the ponds were filled with algae… not so pretty for us but likely make the ducks and geese happy…

water lilies in Leo Mol garden...

water lilies in Leo Mol garden…

and a wonderful rose in the main garden… think this was my best shot…

rose with rain drop...

rose with rain drop…

the datura were also quite amazing… in our zone, these are annuals… the gardeners lift them up in the fall, overwinter them in the greenhouses, and then put them out again the next year…

datura, also known as Angel's Trumpet...

datura, also known as Angel’s Trumpet…

we arrived back at the car just as the rain began…

then we went to my friend’s place for a lovely tenderloin dinner with rice, Asian vegetables, tomato and cucumber salad with peach pie and shortbread cookies for dessert… what a lovely treat…

home to watch a few shows and then as I was heading to the computer to write my blog post I looked out at the sky, found my camera and went to the front door…

the sky was orange… the colour in this picture is the exact shade…

sky around 9 pm...

sky around 9 pm…

very busy evening for me… now to bed, lol…

hungry…

20 Sunday Jul 2014

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another beautiful morning in the garden…

watched two squirrels snacking
under the bird feeder while I had an early morning hot tub… the bluejays were at the feeder and there is obviously a baby in their family who was located in one of the cedars, and he was very hungry from the sound of things…

20140720-194243-70963816.jpgfinished the book and watched squirrels drink and a bluejay bath in the pond…

20140720-194400-71040891.jpgcan’t figure out who is knocking over the plant in the pond… maybe a squirrel…

a dragonfly stopped by… quite red… got a good shot of it with one of the fish swimming over…

20140720-200720-72440681.jpgmade supper for the kids and had a nice visit with them… a beef roast with baked potatoes, cucumber in sour cream, salad and zucchini, mushrooms and fresh peas… they brought Slurpees, which was great as it was hot… even now it feels like 33.2…

dragonfly…

19 Saturday Jul 2014

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spent a good portion of the day in the garden…

20140719-200950-72590820.jpgit was lovely and not too hot… another batch of plants are blooming… they could be the same as the purple ones, only smaller… dark pink/red, not sure how I feel about the colour…

first thing this morning a dragonfly landed on the screen and posed for a few pictures…

20140719-201526-72926223.jpgmoved my chair so I was sitting right beside the pond… saw lots of babies… white and red, white and black, and gold ones, which look black in the pond… sadly I’m having issues with algae, not sure the fancy uv filter is doing its job… frustrating because putting it in caused the waterfall flow to be less powerful…

did a bit of weeding and had a lovely nap…

read most of a paper book and also put on my big girl pants and barbecued steak and zucchini, with potatoes, onions and mushrooms…

20140719-202300-73380961.jpgrestful day, but missing my beloved…

storm…

18 Friday Jul 2014

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had quite the thunderstorm tonight…

the clouds filled the sky before the rain came…

20140718-214136-78096495.jpgonly came down for maybe ten minutes but there was a lot of it and it was coming from the south… usually a bad sign for the basement…

once it stopped I ran down and checked and everything was dry… yay…

been giggling off and on throughout the day… middle of the night I opened the window

20140718-214557-78357111.jpgwasn’t till this morning that I realized I had taken the screen off to get some pictures and hadn’t put it back on… amazingly there were very few bugs in the house…

the fish seemed hungry this morning so I put out some food before leaving for work… they were happy…

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