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03 Thursday Aug 2017

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had a lovely early morning walk to and around the Gardens at the Park…


first time the pelicans have been around this year when I’ve been on my walks…

the Gardens are lovely right now…


the gardeners were everywhere and the sprinklers were rather a danger… took quite different paths so I didn’t get drenched…


last week I got a shot of this bench with a woman seated on it from the other side of the garden… looks different from this point of view…


the view from our bench… and here’s the bench…


as I left the Gardens the path was beautiful with the dappled light…


great start to the day…

chopping…

21 Friday Jul 2017

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yesterday my grandson picked me up at work and we drove to the lake to meet up with the rest of the kids…

a lovely drive and time to catch up with the oldest…

when we arrived at the campsite folks were starting to prepare dinner… perogies, garlic sausage, onions, mushrooms, corn on the cob, French beans and yellow wax beans…


and, as they nearly always do, cooked over the fire… takes a while, but was delicious…

not sure if the slightly murky looking skies are due to the wildfires in BC… have noticed that the sun is often behind a haze…


it was entertaining to watch the two men in the group as they had fun chopping wood for the fire… 


they are brothers and worked so well together to get the job done, but were clearly enjoying every minute…

family time…

sometimes…

16 Thursday Feb 2017

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been a rough few days… many reasons… waiting on test results… various changes around me… missing my beloved… mental struggles…

tonight I got a beautiful card in the mail…

great timing… needed a bit of a confidence boost…

and then I walked by the window and saw this…

there is always beauty out there… sometimes I need a brief reminder…

it is so easy to get caught in a downward spiral of sadness…

listen…

12 Monday Sep 2016

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been thrilled to get some great shots of Canada geese over the last few days…

I love the sound as they arrive in the Spring… and their calls as they travel through the sky on their way to and from the fields where they are now filling up for their flight south…


I hear them and usually, by the time I get the camera up and focused, they are gone… got most of these at the Park…

a few days ago I started my morning listening to them flying over the house… the next night I heard them flying by just after dark…

one year we went to FortWhyte Alive and watched the evening return of thousands of geese from their feeding grounds… the sight and sound was amazing…

of course the sound in the Fall is a bit sad because they are either preparing to leave or actually going…

still it stops me in my tracks wherever I am, and I gaze up to the sky until I spot them… hope you get to hear some where you are…

nature is awesome…

listening…

23 Monday May 2016

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woke up just after midnight wondering what I was hearing…

took me a minute to realize it was rain pounding against the open window… once what I was listening to sank into my brain, I jumped up and closed the windows and patio door… then I went downstairs to see if it was coming in the corner of the basement, but it was dry…

when I got up in the morning it was fresh and green outside and the rain had stopped… after grocery shopping I took this picture out the front window…


always interesting how the rain can green everything up so nicely, much better than watering can…

sat out in the garden for a good portion of the day enjoying the beauty and finishing a novel…

kids came for dinner and we had our first meal of the season on the deck…


lovely, because often by dinner time it is already cooling off and we end up in the dining room…

afterwards there was some hot tubbing and visiting and I took this shot of the sky with some beautiful  clouds floating by…


the family stayed later than usual which was nice, and I am enjoying a last few minutes of quiet in the garden before heading in…

will be going to bed early tonight after a busy, but productive, long weekend…

I truly am blessed, having my family around me and the health to be able to enjoy working and spending time in the garden…

blossoms…

03 Tuesday May 2016

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this morning I got a few shots of my new hibiscus… 

  
it is so lovely to see blossoms first thing in the morning…

  
flowers always make me happy…

recently someone mentioned that whenever there are flowers around, people notice and comment in a positive way… flowers add warmth to any space… maybe that’s why I like them so much…

another thing that makes me happy is seeing changes in nature…

as I walked up the street tonight I noticed the greening of one of the trees by the creek…

  
spent time tonight as well enjoying those hibiscus blossoms…

bookends…

21 Monday Mar 2016

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didn’t have to be at work until eleven so I relaxed with a cup of tea in the living room while enjoying the perfume from the blooming hyacinth…

  
such a delicious smell… and I was so pleased that it turned out to be purple, lol…

also saw a bunny hop across the street while I was soaking up the quiet…

this afternoon I received this in my email…

  
a Hershey’s kiss in a purple wrapper from my kids who are visiting Las Vegas… makes me giggle because Hershey chocolate tastes like soap to me… but I love kisses…

to bookend the great start to the day, tonight a dear friend came over with her freshly made hot cross buns… they are soooo delicious…

  
we had a lovely visit and both enjoyed the new orchid which I picked up at the Manitoba Orchid Society’s show and sale yesterday afternoon at the Assiniboine Park Conservatory…

  
the beauty that surrounds us is most amazing…

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…