19 Saturday Oct 2019
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big girl pants, knocked, moments, nature, photos, PTE, thought-provoking, trees, widow
went to PTE this afternoon… the play was thought-provoking and very well done…
walked home from Portage Avenue afterwards…
so many broken branches along the way…
that snowstorm really knocked around the trees and the city will be recovering for a long time…
11 Friday Oct 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, garden, moments, nature, photos, shovelling, sidewalk, snow, walk, widow
it started snowing yesterday morning and has barely stopped since then… I’ve spent the day taking pictures…
around 7:30 I took a few photos out the front and back…
a bit later I went outside to shovel the front sidewalk and the back deck that leads to the garage and hot tub… that was around 9:30…
I looked out the front door at noon to see this…
hard to tell that I shovelled, lol…
shots from 2 and 7…
not going to look anymore tonight, lol…
will have to check it out in the morning… am going to have to find someone to shovel the driveway;-)…
02 Wednesday Oct 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, ear, health, helpful, photos, Technology, widow
well, my ear is doing much better… so far the meds are working with no side effects…
my technique is to take a photo of the box just before or after I use the drops so that I can remember what time I need to take them next, lol…
took the shot in a hurry this morning…
helpful, though…
11 Wednesday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, bird, Downy Woodpecker, feeder, phone, photos, pole, widow
my daughter called yesterday morning and while we were chatting I looked out the window and spotted this downy woodpecker…
it first landed on the metal pole and I was very worried it might try to drill into the metal and hurt itself, lol…
while we were on the phone I took quite a few photos as it moved over and gathered sunflower seeds…
not sure I’ve ever seen one of these guys at the feeder…
03 Tuesday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, chickadees, flowers, garden, memories, photos, purple, sparse, widow
got some shots of flowers and birds in the garden…
sadly it seems that the flowers are getting a bit more sparse… temperatures are falling and the light is receding bit by bit…
also got a few photos of the chickadees as they were flitting back and forth to the feeder… they move so fast that I am always thrilled when I get a shot…
took these with my actual camera…
wondering when I need to bring in the Japanese Maple and the hibiscus… if I wait too long they get rather grumpy and lose all their leaves, lol…
29 Thursday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, garden, photos, rainbow, thunderstorm, watch, widow
the other evening there was a thunderstorm…
afterwards I took this photo out the front door… hadn’t been much sun for most of the day, so it was great to see this…
I was on the watch for a rainbow because the sky just had that look about it…
and then, this…
it was gorgeous and reminded me of the many rainbows we saw when we were on Maui… I think we saw at least one every day and one day we saw five…
18 Sunday Aug 2019
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airplane, big girl pants, bunny, clouds got in my way, moon set, photos, rising, sunrise, widow
had some fun taking photos of the moon setting and the sun rising…
ran back and forth from the front of the house, to the back to get the pictures…
amongst all the back and forth-ing, I also caught a shot of a plane and a bunny…
just a few days before that, I’d tried to get a shot of the full moon as it was setting, but clouds got in my way…
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…
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…
19 Friday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, birds, bunnies, finches, garden, photos, purple, rejuvenating, show, sparrows, widow
spent the morning in the garden enjoying the show…
there were sparrows – clay coloured, house, chipping, maybe others as they can be hard to identify sometimes… along with purple finches…
they don’t really play that well together but eventually the finches seemed to accept the sparrows being at the feeder at the same time as them…
I took a great video, but haven’t quite figured out how I can post one here, lol…
dozens of the sparrows flitted about the garden… on the furniture, various decks, garage roof, at the feeder and drinking at the pond…
what a lovely time I had enjoying the activity…
and just now the teeniest bunny ran by about five feet from me… wasn’t fast enough to catch a photo, but what a cutie…
time in the garden is rejuvenating…
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