04 Tuesday Feb 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, crocus, flowers, happiness, happy, hyacinth, moments, nature, orchids, pictures, purple, tulips, widow
had some fun taking flower pictures yesterday…
the crocus and hyacinth are doing very well and enjoying the light in the living room… also some tulips at the grocery store…
orchid blooms are looking lovely and I picked up an orchid on sale at Save-On-Foods that is now living in the bedroom…
01 Saturday Feb 2020
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aquarium, big girl pants, blessed, fish, fun, GoPro, Maui, memories, moments, nature, photos, pictures, snorkel, Technology, turtles, widow
had the best time watching the videos we took when we were in Maui…
gave the card, from the GoPro we rented, to my daughter when we came home and just got my copy when I was in Ottawa…
spent quite some time trying to get photos from the videos and eventually found the option to save a single frame as a picture;-)… that was entertaining…
the smile on my face says it all… snorkelling was such fun and being in the giant aquarium with the fish and turtles was amazing;-)…
such a lovely reminder of the wonderful time we had in and under the water…
also, there were photos that my daughter took of me on the stand-up paddle board…
need to spend a bit more time working on balance…
such wonderful memories;-)…
16 Thursday Jan 2020
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saw the most amazing sky tonight as I was walking through the house…
it always amazes me when I just happen to look out and see a gorgeous sunset or sunrise… there are so many moments that we miss because we aren’t looking, lol…
here is one of the photos that I took, just before my camera advised me it was exhausted…
I am feeling that a pattern is appearing in my days… I am getting up around eight or nine and then having a relaxing breakfast… today I had some chicken soup I’d made a few days ago in the Instant Pot… I hadn’t tasted it when I made it so was pleased with it this morning… I’d woken up with a stuffy nose, so chicken soup seemed like a great start to my day…
for my lunch I had some of the Mexican Chicken Soup I’d made at the same time…. I will make this again as it is very tasty…
a bit later I spent some time working at cleaning out a kitchen drawer… even went as far as putting a liner in as well… took a while for everything to dry and be ready to go back into the drawer and a number of things hit the garbage and pass-me-over box…
reading, watching tv, tidying, napping and cooking take up the rest of the day…
so far I am enjoying the relaxed quiet days…
11 Saturday Jan 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, family, gifts, gratitude, joy, memories, moments, pictures, purple, reflecting, remembering, sun, widow
had a lovely time while I was still at my daughter’s sorting and taking photos of my Christmas gifts…
I absolutely love my soft purple blanket, and was happy to examine all of the other wonderful treats I received…
a few purple items, lol – socks, facecloths, gloves, tins, toothbrush, reusable sponge, phone holder… and quite a variety of chocolate – pistachio, Lindt, turtles, raspberry (my favourite), chocolate covered sponge… a tea and chocolate pairing that was flavoured with orchids, reusable bags, a Chihuly 2020 calendar, colouring books and pencils, a magazine on gratitude, a hand printed towel… plus a few more I can’t even remember…
yikes, so many gifts… I certainly am blessed…
the sun was shining into the room as I was gathering them for the photo… it was very meditative and I was able to reflect on each gift and the person who gave it to me… and the fun we had as we opened and shared our delight over each parcel…
a wonderful way to extend the joy of Christmas morning…
now that I’m home, I’ve found a spot for each one…
as I use each item I will be sure to spend a moment to remember the giver with gratitude in my heart…
09 Thursday Jan 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, family, happy, hot tub, memories, moments, moon, nature, pictures, spa, treat, vacation, widow
for my last full day in Ottawa, we went to Nordik Spa in Chelsea… it is the parent of Thermea, where I was, just days ago…
but it is so much bigger… there are whole sections for quiet activities, as well as silent ones… every time I go they have added something new… this time it was Quonset hut saunas… the light reflecting on the ceiling was gorgeous…
we started in one of the warm glass beds and moved to warm pools, saunas, hot pools, had scrubs, and sat around fires in huts…
we drank tons of water and had a delicious lunch… we chatted with strangers, just ourselves, and we spent time in silence…
they don’t allow photos on site so these are a few I took: leaving home as the snow fell, the view as we stood in line to get our bracelets, and a picture my daughter took as we were leaving…
it was a wonderful relaxing and rejuvenating day, and a great way to end my visit…
we drove home in the dark, after watching the moon rise from various pools, and had a simple supper before all three of us watched a movie…
we didn’t want to go to bed because she had to work the next day and I would be packing and flying home;-(…
29 Sunday Dec 2019
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what an eventful day yesterday was…
in the morning my daughter and I headed to Bulk Barn for bird seed and then on to Mer Bleue where it was way too slippery for a walk but we spent a lovely time feeding the birds from our hands… such fun;-)…
chickadees came and went from the surrounding trees… we saw blue jays, two types of woodpeckers, a nuthatch and maybe a partridge…
it was great fun… my daughter took the picture of the chickadee looking at me, lol…
then we picked up my son-in-law and his mom and went to the Canadian Museum of Nature where we saw exhibits about the arctic, the earth and Canadian birds… and we spent some quality time in the butterfly exhibit…
here are a few of my favourite photos…
birds AND butterflies…
finished the day off with a BeaverTail;-)…
those were for sharing, I only had half of one;-)…
15 Sunday Dec 2019
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for Advent my daughter sent me a collection of watercolour cards with quotations on the back… she painted each one and hand printed the sayings… I haven’t heard yet where she found them…
I had decided that this year I would spend time each morning being grateful for a particular thing, but didn’t have a list… that was as far as I’d got, lol…
I’ve found that the quotes on the cards have prompted me just enough to choose a topic…
it has been very cathartic…
here are a few of my favourites so far…
certainly a lovely way to begin the day…
07 Saturday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, board, bouquet, camera, flowers, happy, moments, pictures, presented, relaxing, vase, widow
last Friday I was presented with a lovely bouquet of flowers by our Board…
I have been taking pictures of them ever since… so happy to have my camera back to do so…
today I trimmed the stems and put the flowers into a different vase…
flowers make me happy and taking pictures of them is very relaxing…
28 Thursday Nov 2019
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my camera fell off a table at work at the beginning of November…
the viewfinder popped off… this camera doesn’t have the old-fashioned type of viewfinder, only the electronic version…
I tried to stick it back on, but the screen remained black… can’t really take photos when you can’t see what is in the viewer… was so upset that I didn’t even get a shot of the before, lol…
called the photo store only to discover I purchased the camera last September… so, no warranty, sigh…
then I called the camera hospital and sent it over by courier so that it could get repaired before the holiday season…
it has been a long time, but this morning it returned to the office… put my memory card back in and took a few photos right away…
so happy to have it back… I enjoy my iPhone camera but have really missed this one…
25 Monday Nov 2019
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my friends often tell me that my oldest grandson looks like my beloved… but I don’t see it…
recently my daughter sent me a photo she came across… it was in an album that belonged to her grandmother, my beloved’a mom…
when I first looked at it I wondered where she’d got the picture of my grandson, lol…
then I realized it was my beloved…
a photo from high school, so over fifty years old, but it is still in good shape… and a similar age to my grandson now…
here is a photo from my grandson’s grade twelve graduation…
they do look alike;-)…
I see it!!!
