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Maui, day five…

15 Monday Apr 2019

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today we went to Ali’i Kula Lavender… we thought it was just a lavender field but it turned out to have a whole lot of flowering plants and trees as well…

had a lovely wander around and took a few photos, lol…

from there we headed over to Maui Chocolate and Coffee Tours at Kupa’a Farms where we had a wonderful visit with Ann and Janet and Gerry… we talked about jewellery and Instagram and then we got to see cacao trees… somebody was very happy…

we saw all kinds of other trees and learned how chocolate is made, followed by a great chocolate tasting…

what a glorious afternoon…

Maui, day one…

11 Thursday Apr 2019

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what a wonderFULL day…

put my toes in the ocean… in Kahului and Kihei… so amazing;-)…

saw flowers everywhere… including red hibiscus hedges and flowering trees… enjoyed so many… just got a few closeups of some outstanding blooms that I came across…

tried, and loved, shave ice… had thought the concept was odd, so when we had one and it was so good, really got why people stand in long lines to get some;-)…

watched the sun set over the beach… some of us were chilly as the wind picked up a bit as the show was getting started…

a great day to be alive and on an adventure…

quadrants…

30 Saturday Mar 2019

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sun shone all day which is great… Saturday is my rest day and I try not to leave the house…

had a fun time changing out the drawer in the living room coffee table…

put away all of the pictures of beautiful Chihuly installations and family photos… brought back some lovely memories of our meeting with him in Seattle… like shaking the hand of a rock star;-)…

pulled out the box filled with sea shells and used them to fill the four quadrants… I remember how excited I was to find this table at IKEA that the shells could go into…

of course, I’ve lost two different batches of shells since then, lol…

but it looks lovely and beach-y...

2,555…

04 Monday Mar 2019

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tomorrow marks 7 years since my beloved left this earth…

Google tells me that it is 2,555 days since that day…

I’ve been remembering some of the fun things we did during those last weeks…

you would think after seven years it would get easier…

but it doesn’t …

this is the last picture I took with him… it was Sunday, March 4, 2012… we had taken a drive around the Park so I could get some photos of the beautiful hoarfrost… this tree is on the drive to the Park… he had to stop in the middle of the road so that I could get the shot I wanted;-)…

carpool…

27 Wednesday Feb 2019

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yesterday I drove to and from work with a colleague…

carpooling is always more fun than driving on my own… I’ve carpooled with a number of people over the years… for years I rode with a good friend who worked close by… also with another colleague… and for many years my beloved drove me to and from work…

one of the best things is that I can take pictures, lol…

waited in the living room for my ride and got a photo of the very slow traffic on our way home…

at the end of the day I walked up the street in my heavy Canada Goose jacket, which kept me toasty warm… sadly the zipper on my usual Canada Goose jacket isn’t working properly so I’m wearing the heavier one…

looking forward to traveling with her tomorrow…

dome…

19 Tuesday Feb 2019

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sunshine and clouds…

Saturday the sun was shining down on the planters in the front yard and there were diamonds glittering… lovely dome of snow, which reminded me of a giant ice cream cone…

a bit later I caught this sundog… not very big but always such fun to spot… as I was driving downtown this morning there was a huge one, but I couldn’t stop to take a photo…

Sunday the clouds were very fluffy as I took this picture…

arrived…

10 Sunday Feb 2019

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my older daughter, who lives in Ottawa, surprised me on Wednesday… she arrived to help with a big event I’ve been working on…

after the event, she was able to visit with a few of her friends and we spent Saturday in our jammies doing nothing…

it was divine as both of us have been very busy for the last month…

we made macaroni and cheese with lobster for supper… at the same time I learned more about Instagram stories and a new app that slices videos to Instagram size;-)… as I was going through my photos looking for one of the mac and cheese to put in this post, I was giggling because we took two sets of videos and there wasn’t a single photo of the process that was good enough to use, lol…

we did manage to get into the hot tub once… our usual routine is to spend a few minutes at the end of each evening there…

this morning we were up early and took our requisite selfie, lol… we used her fancy Huawei phone which has some smoothing aspect in the pic… we look pretty fine…

I got her to the airport by 6:30 am for her flight… and took our final selfie…

a wonderful gift…

brrrr…

30 Wednesday Jan 2019

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my, oh my… it has been crazy cold…

this morning while I was waiting for the car to warm up a bit, I took some pictures…

the cover of the hot tub is amazing… I haven’t been in it for a while, but it looks like it has turned into a cocoon to keep the heat in, lol…

it is so beautiful as everything is covered in ice…

I don’t usually sit in the car while it is running in the garage, but it was so cold that I felt Indi needed to warm up before we left… although the door was wide open it smelled, so I moved her onto the driveway for a few final minutes…

that’s when I got the pictures, lol…

last night when I left the office it was so cold that it felt like everything in the car was frozen, even though the battery had been plugged in all day…

rarely do we all plug in, but this morning I took this photo… clearly others felt it was cold as well…

macro…

20 Sunday Jan 2019

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yesterday I spent some time playing with my camera and flowers in the house…

working a bit with the macro feature…

got some good shots of the orchid… if you look at them just the right way you can see a dove…

also got a few pictures of the flowers in one of the bouquets on the main floor…

as everyone knows, flowers really help me through the cold and dark season… just looking at them makes me happy…

the great news is that every day there is a tiny bit more light;-)…

dusting…

12 Saturday Jan 2019

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on the first day back to work, as I stepped out of the house, the ground was covered with a light dusting of snow…

I was at the garage door when a sweet bunny hopped into the garden…

had to stop and get a few photos, even though my hands were full, lol…

this morning as I was standing at the kitchen sink I noticed a bunny and a squirrel having a tiff in the neighbour’s backyard… seems like the squirrel won because the bunny went and hid behind a shed…

such fun to watch the critters…