activity…

22 Thursday Jul 2021

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hot and partly overcast today, but not nearly as smokey…

and lots of activity in the garden…

must have counted six squirrels at one time and took a few pictures of different ones eating… none of the gray squirrels wanted to have their photos taken, lol…

there was also a great deal of bird action… dozens of house sparrows, numerous finches and chickadees, as well as at least one nuthatch…

such a wonderful way to spend the day;-)…

the water lily bloom continues to open with the light and close as the evening arrives…

lilies…

21 Wednesday Jul 2021

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was very surprised to see a water lily flower in the pond a few days ago…

I’d been watching for buds, but hadn’t spotted any… these two lilies had overwintered in the aquarium so I wasn’t sure how they would do, which made it even more thrilling…

I took many, many pictures trying to get just the right one… it is difficult to take one that shows the yellow in the centre of the flower correctly…

eventually, I put down a cushion and laid on it taking pictures and then watching the fish…

the waterfall has been off for a few days and they seem to come out from under the bridge more often…

I must have laid there for half an hour watching to see if I could spot the babies…

so far, I’ve seen two shubunkins (the multi-coloured ones) and at least two goldfish… the goldfish (yellow) are hard to spot as they look black… I tried to get pictures but they hide really well and are also very quick…

but what a fun time watching…

functioning…

12 Saturday Jun 2021

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Thursday was a disaster technology wise…

I was wondering if the power had gone off during the night, but the dishwasher, which usually tells me with a big PF, didn’t display that…

my Nikon wouldn’t connect to my phone… no matter what I did, sigh…

my Geeni cameras, on the garage and in two rooms to look out the front and into the garden, would not work… I tried the usual unplug and replug technique, which had no effect…

my smart home plugs weren’t functioning either and none of the usual solutions worked…

someone suggested the new moon was the issue…

so I gave up on technology for the day, hoping a miracle would happen and everything would work on Friday;-)…

of course that didn’t happen… I went downstairs and unplugged the router, waited a bit and plugged it back in…

then there is the patience factor as it takes a while for all the little lights to light up and get happily blinking….

that didn’t fix everything, so I went upstairs and did the same with the second router…

and… finally everything was working… shhhh…

open…

08 Tuesday Jun 2021

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woke up to twelve open poppies yesterday…

was quite surprised as they usually open one or two at a time…

they look lovely, particularly with the reflection in the pond…

the goldfish add to the pretty orange colours, lol…

can’t stop taking photos of them…

goose…

07 Friday May 2021

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this morning, as I was starting to walk around the living and dining rooms to check on all the seedlings, I noticed my next door neighbour taking photos… I looked across the street at her car, thinking something had damaged it, but it was fine…

I looked at the field and along the neighbour’s fence but there was nothing there…

I tried to look down the lane but there really isn’t a good angle from where I was…

I started to walk away and noticed something on the roof across the street…

there was a goose standing there… clearly what she was taking pictures of…

I got a few photos before the camera battery announced it was exhausted, and suddenly another goose flew toward it and away, maybe from my roof, and then the first goose followed…

what a surprise…

turn…

05 Wednesday May 2021

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seems like I’ve been so busy around here that I didn’t turn the page on the calendar until this morning;-)…

vases…

26 Monday Apr 2021

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had some fun separating my first birthday bouquet into four different vases…

there are now flowers in the living room, bathroom, bedroom and even the kitchen…

nice that I won’t have to carry flowers upstairs at the end of each day;-)…

beauty everywhere I look… such a treat…

charger…

16 Friday Apr 2021

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I’ve been spending a bit of time with my Olympus camera, getting to know it again…

it had been sitting on the shelf for a long time because I had misplaced the charger…

my son-in-law was able to find one online for me and I recently received it…

I dug out the manual, read through it and have started to take more pictures… I never thought it worked as well as my Nikon, but maybe I didn’t give it a chance, lol…

we shall see…