31 Sunday Jan 2016
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yesterday I walked over to the Park and took a few shots along the river…
although it was overcast the snow looked so pretty…
also took a picture of where our favourite tree stood…
the bench in this shot is right where the tree was… Dutch elm disease… very sad…
overcast again today and when we were out we looked at orchids at IKEA… we talked about the amazing orchid I’d purchased there so many months ago…
18 Sunday Oct 2015
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the Canada geese are gathering and preparing to head south…
yesterday they were everywhere when I was at the Park…
these ones were at the Duck Pond… this is the most I’ve seen here all year…
as I was watching the game I would hear the geese honking and look up in most any direction and see them leaving in droves…
to the north…
and the south…
a seagull was on the move as well…
there were a lot of them, possibly because there were food tents… they like to be around food, lol…
last picture of the day were these three geese heading out to find their buddies, calling all the way…
there is just something about the sound of geese that compels me to look up, smile, and listen to the glorious sound…
12 Thursday Feb 2015
the art installation is complete… it was finished on Saturday… we got the last of the twenty-nine framed waterlily photos up… and when I say we, I mean my friend, while I passed the odd thing to her…
she did an amazing job… not only are the pictures even and square, there are stickies in the bottom corners so they stay level, lol…
when I described a wall of water lilies she was thinking it might be a bit, shall we say, boring… now that it is all finished she agrees it was the right choice for me… I love water and the lily flowers too…
every time I walk down the stairs, I see something different…
this one reminds me of a walk through the Leo Mol garden with George in the summer of 2011… the ducks were a complete surprise in the pond… had never seen them before or since…
this one brought back my time at the Butchart Gardens in Victoria with my kids, just before they moved from Vancouver Island… we had been on the cruise to Alaska, and spent time in Seattle… finished off with a wonderful day in the Gardens and had tea at The Empress… so many memories…
this one was taken in October of 2011 when we spent ages sitting on a bench admiring the pond… might have been one of our last walks in the Park…
last night my daughter gave the installation her stamp of approval… phew…
wonderful to have these different memories as I move up or down the stairs…
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