22 Monday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, hot, moments, morning glories, nature, photos, purple, shades, smile, walk, weather, widow
had some fun wandering around the garden this morning…
focussed on the morning glories…
different shades of purple;-)…
morning glories bring such a happy smile to my face…
30 Sunday Jun 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, broken, crashing, family, fix, grandson, mess, moments, orchids, photos, plants, shelf, shower caddy, widow
the other day my grandson came to the door and said something had happened to my plants… he heard a crash as he was showering and came out to the shower caddy that we had installed in January laying in pieces on the floor with bits of orchids everywhere…
I was so shocked I didn’t even take a picture of the carnage…
it took a while to pick up the plants, sweep up the broken bits, and dump out the soil…
then, we ignored it for a few days, lol…
when we put it back up, we decided to use strapping and screws…
I still need to replace the one broken pot…
hopefully this time the whole shelf won’t come crashing down, lol…
29 Saturday Jun 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, decimated, family, garden, happy, milkweed, moments, monarch caterpillars, nature, photos, plants, pond, twenty, widow
on Tuesday we counted twenty monarch caterpillars on the milkweed in the garden…
they were all over the newest batch that was recently planted and have nearly decimated all the leaves…
they were also on the ones near the waterfall which were planted last summer… we’ve now taken out all the poppies so there is more room to be able to see the caterpillars…
there were none on the ones from last year which were located around the edge of the pond… these were the ones that I planted in a spot where I could see and photograph any butterflies, eggs and caterpillars that came along, lol…
there were some chives next to them so when Hilda the Gardener was here the other day I had her take them out… maybe the butterflies don’t like the smell…
so excited to have so many;-)…
10 Wednesday Apr 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Jupiter, moments, moon, nature, photos, planets, sky, sliver, Technology, tripod, weather, widow
last night I spent a few minutes at the front door trying to get a photo of the tiny sliver of moon and Jupiter…
I should have got out the tripod, lol…
it was fun to watch as the moon slowly was covered by clouds…
28 Thursday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, full moon, garden, mesmerizing, moments, moon, moonlight, nature, odd, photos, sky, Spring, weather, widow
the moon has been doing some odd things over the last while…
three days before the full moon the moonlight was amazing… it looked as though it was a full moon and this is very odd…
I’ve caught a few interesting photos over the last few days…
this was from the 5:30 on Tuesday morning, taken without my glasses on, lol……
this one was from 7:30 this morning…
the moon is so mesmerizing;-)…
31 Tuesday Oct 2023
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I’ve been collecting photos of Halloween displays since the very beginning of October when they started popping up on my walks in the neighbourhood;-)…
here are some that I enjoyed🎃…
decorating for Halloween has certainly become a popular pastime…
the very tall skeletons were cool, but I kind of like the happy displays, more than the scary ones, lol…
the majority of these were taken before the snow landed (and hasn’t left) which has since curtailed my walks;-)…
28 Saturday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, colours, home, look out, memorable, moments, nature, photos, sky, time, weather, widow, window
the sky today has been a beautiful canvas of colour and light…
woke up and saw this gorgeous view… had to run back and get my iPhone so I could take a few pictures…
this was just after eight am;-)…
and tonight around seven pm…
both memorable;-)… what a treat to spend a few moments enjoying the beauty…
27 Friday Oct 2023
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adrenaline, appointment, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dentist, family, garden, grandson, hidden, moments, nature, photos, pretty, ride, shovelling, snow, spare, taxi, trees, walk, weather, widow
this morning I got up early as I had a dentist appointment and my grandson was going to drive me down before he went to class…
it was dark and there was a lot of snow out there…
I put on a vest, dug out a hat and gloves, and made sure I had cash for the taxi…
it lightened up before we left and I went out to start cleaning off the car… there was easily six or seven inches of snow on it…
made it to my appointment, and when it was done walked to the Delta Hotel to get a taxi…
got a few nice photos of snow-covered trees on the short walk…
as I was riding along in the taxi, I realized that I didn’t have a house key😳…
thankfully, after my beloved died and I was on my own in the house, I put a spare key in the backyard for just such an occasion…
and, I was able to get through the snow and collect it, lol…
I unlocked the door and put the key back before shovelling the front sidewalk and steps and the back deck and hot tub area…
got that adrenaline going, in the taxi, and in the yard;-)…
02 Monday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cameras, choosing, display, drawer, family, happy, living room table, memories, moments, nature, photos, pictures, rediscovered, sarong, shells, Technology, widow
took some time to begin the process of changing the living room table display for the fall…
removed the shells that I rediscovered in the spring… I won’t forget where I put them this time (upstairs in the Computer room closet🤪), lol…
I decided to put my camera collection out… I had to move the glass to fit one of them in…
next I printed photos to put in each of the squares… that was a bit of a process between the iPhone, computer, and printer, lol… besides having to choose only sixteen (well, seventeen)…
I’m rather pleased with how it came out;-)…
next change will be glittery things for the holiday season…
03 Sunday Sep 2023
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Tuesday, a friend picked me up and we had a wander through the Diversity Gardens…
it was her first time there and I enjoyed being the tour guide, lol…
we were so busy catching up that I barely took any photos…
I did take some of a few grasses we thought might work in the garden between the cedars which might cover it a bit more of the chain link now that the neighbours have removed their planters…
from there, we drove over and walked through the English sand Leo Mol Gardens…
we spent some time relaxing on a bench by the pond and learning about Pokémon as I have just started playing again and now have my own account;-)…
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