17 Monday Jan 2022
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today I woke to this view of the sky…
and a bit later I took this photo of the front yard to show someone how much snow was on the ground…
a tiny bit of snow had fallen yesterday and overnight and we are waiting for a storm tonight so I expect there will be more to shovel tomorrow…
14 Friday Jan 2022
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art, big girl pants, blessed, card, flowers, garden, gift, moments, photos, pictures, poppies, project, purple, widow
this year my Christmas project was Post-It notes made with one of my photos on them…
took a while to decide on just the correct picture… in the end I chose a picture of a poppy that I took in the garden this summer… my Ottawa kids did some work removing the background for me…
always happy when I am able to use one of my photographs for a project…
I also produced cards with four different winter pictures to go with them…
working with my art always fills me with happiness…
30 Thursday Dec 2021
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, camera, Christmas, fade, flowers, friends, gift, moments, nature, photo shoot, pictures, purple, sunshine, Technology, treat, widow
had a photo shoot with my bouquet of flowers…
I’m happy that I’ve taken lots of shots since I received them as they are starting to fade…
got out the actual camera and had a fun time… light was good and tunes were playing…
flowers make me happy;-)…
14 Tuesday Dec 2021
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big girl pants, bins, birds, birdseed, blessed, broken, feeders, garage, garden, moments, nature, pictures, recycling, widow
brought in the garbage and recycling bins yesterday afternoon…
while I was in the yard I changed out the broken bird feeder with a purple one that was in the garage…
I also filled all the feeders…
then I took a few photos of the new planter that is now sitting at the front door;-)…
it looks great…
08 Wednesday Dec 2021
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the other day, four trucks took over the street…
I went to look out the window to see what was going on and discovered they were cutting down one of the elm trees on the boulevard…
I watched most of the process…
they had a bucket and the person in it cut down the small branches at the top and they moved it down bit by bit… between cuts, people on the ground gathered up the pieces and put them through the chipper…
finally they put a rope around what was left and there were a number of final cuts as they tried to pull the last 20 feet of it over…
it took quite a few tries to get it to topple over and the ground shook when it landed…
another hole in the sky…
06 Monday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, bumblebee, flutter, garden, lily pad, moments, nature, pictures, pond, sparrows, wasp, widow
the critters have been active in the garden…
birds and squirrels are always flitting about… today I captured a flutter of sparrows lined up waiting for their turn at one of the feeders…
and lately the tiniest winged critters have been visiting quite a bit…
this cute bumblebee was enjoying a rest in the sunshine on the datura… and the wasps have been spending time on the lily pads, getting drinks I think…
there have also been a number of grasshoppers in the front yard…
so happy that retirement has given me more opportunities to enjoy the nature around me…
22 Thursday Jul 2021
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activity, big girl pants, birds, blessed, close, garden, moments, nature, open, pictures, pond, purple, squirrels, water lily, weather, widow
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…
21 Wednesday Jul 2021
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aquarium, babies, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, lilies, moments, nature, overwinter, pictures, plants, pond, shubunkins, watching, water, widow
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…
12 Saturday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, functioning, Geeni, moments, moon, pictures, router, SnapBridge, Technology, widow
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…
08 Tuesday Jun 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, goldfish, memories, moments, nature, open, pictures, poppies, widow
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…
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