20 Tuesday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, cold, family, furniture, garden, moments, nature, photos, pond, pots, snow, widow
went outside this morning and moved as much of the furniture as I could…
a few pieces are very heavy so I left them to be dealt with by the boys…
I also moved all the planter pots under the deck…
here’s the view once I was done…
that was around 10 am… I took this photo at 5:30 pm…
;-(…
07 Wednesday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, photos, sky, thunderstorm, weather, widow
that sky last night before the thunderstorm…
I was in the kitchen and had to go out and take some photos…
minutes later the sky opened and the rain poured down…
06 Tuesday Oct 2020
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, crunch, Fall, garden, leaves, listen, moments, nature, noise, photos, pine siskins, pond, widow
spent a lovely afternoon in the garden before the rain…
pulled more leaves out of the pond… more are coming down into it every day…
I read and listened to the birds as they crunched through the leaves looking for bugs and seeds… considering how small they are, they made a lot of noise…
flocks of white-throated, song, and house sparrows, as well as pine siskins landed in the grass and around the pond where they would carefully jump from rock to rock to get a drink…
then off they went…
28 Monday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, clean-up, deciduous, Fall, garden, leaves, moments, nature, photos, pond, sky, weather, widow
it was dull, cool and windy yesterday with a few sprinkles of rain…
I made soup… seemed like a good thing to do on what sure felt like a fall day…
as I went up and down working on it I took some photos of the garden…
hard to tell from these pictures that I don’t have any deciduous trees in my yard, lol…
cleaning up the leaves with the lawnmower isn’t that big a problem, but getting them out of the pond takes quite a while;-(…
looks like I won’t be working on that until Thursday when the weather might be a bit better…
10 Thursday Sep 2020
Posted in health, life, moments, nature, Photography, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, blessed, Canada geese, end of summer, family, geese, health, honk, moments, nature, photos, sky, walk, widow
lately the geese have flown over the house honking at all times of the day… it is a sure sign that summer is nearing its end, and a sound that I love to hear…
walked over by the Park this morning with my daughter (on the phone) and watched geese going over…
also took a few photos of a pair of geese who were right beside the walkway and happy to pose…
they were not in the least perturbed by people walking so close to them… not sure if that is good or bad…
01 Tuesday Sep 2020
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, travel, Uncategorized
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, Botanical, Chihuly, garden, glass, memories, moments, nature, photos, remembering, widow
turned the page on my Chihuly calendar and saw this…
this picture was taken at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens in 2016…
here is a photo that I took at the same place;-)…
wonderful memory…
28 Friday Aug 2020
Posted in food, garden, health, life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, technology, Uncategorized
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baby fish, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, fish, friends, fudgicle, garden, memories, moments, nature, photos, pond, Technology, walk, widow
had an excellent visit with a good friend a few days ago…
she brought fresh veggies from her garden… we consulted on a project, talked about our lives, exercise, technology, and living on our own…
we ordered in some tasty Pho Hoang and had fudgicles for dessert…
after dinner, while we were sitting beside the pond, I spotted baby fish… this was very exciting…
after she left, I sat and spotted at least four, in three different sizes… looks like two about two inches long and at least one each of two smaller ones…
have not been able to get any photos as they move very quickly and look black in the water, lol… maybe they are nervous about some of those bigger ones..
a lovely time…
26 Wednesday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, garden, moments, nature, photos, pond, third, water lilies, widow
spent a good portion of the last few days in the garden watching the most recent water lily flower open… this is the third one so far this season;-)…
so relaxing to watch the slow opening and the fish swimming around and about…
25 Tuesday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, careful, datura, flowers, garden, gift, moments, nature, photos, plants, poisonous, widow
spent some time in the front flower bed tidying the datura…
they are doing great… I’ve been trimming the spent blossoms so that the plant might make more flowers;-)…
also made sure that all the debris went into the pots and washed my hands afterwards as they are poisonous…
the other day I may have put my hand to my lips and had a strange sensation so am being more careful…
final photo from inside the house…
14 Friday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, chocolate, commemorate, dinner, food, friends, garden, moments, photos, pond, sun, time together, treat, treats, widow
what a wonderful evening we had on Wednesday…
our BS group met for dinner in the garden to celebrate a birthday…
I spent a good portion of the day ensuring that there were enough chairs available and physically distanced… it was very warm and the sun was shining in most of the garden…
in the end, we ate on the deck as it was shaded, lol… had dinner and dessert delivered and it was tasty…
after dinner we moved to the garden and carried on our visit…
took a very distanced photo as we usually commemorate special times together and I used my phone as the remote to take the shot…
although we video call each Monday night it was lovely to be together again in person…
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