24 Monday Oct 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
yesterday when the kids were over we did my Halloween decorating…
always good to do it with someone else who might have a different idea about where to put something… seems to me that I get in a rut, lol…
and it is fun to have company to get the job done…
after that they played a game on the phone…
we’ve reached a new phase where not everyone wants their picture taken, so I was happy that I caught them when they didn’t notice what I was up to…
happy to have the space ready for next Monday…
13 Monday Jun 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized
been thinking about serendipity a lot lately…
on Saturday as I was heading downstairs from the second floor, I looked out the window and spotted a goldfinch at the feeder…
was able to run down, grab my camera and get a few pictures… didn’t see it again for the rest of the day, or since then…
tonight I walked home after dinner out with my BS buddies, and this little bunny ran across the street in front of me…
and then sat there giving me time to get out my phone and take a picture…
part of it is about being in the moment and making the most of it, ie taking the time to see what is around you…
29 Sunday May 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized
only picture I took today, and that was at six, lol… funny how some days I take dozens of shots and others barely any…
was overcast with some sunny bits throughout the day but I didn’t sit out till I was working on supper…
have spent time over the last couple of days looking through our Alaskan cruise book…
took the trip three years ago with my daughter and son-in-law who were living on Vancouver Island at the time…
haven’t had the book out for quite a while and a Facebook memory reminded me of it… it was wonderful to relive all of the special moments… nearly every town we landed in had dozens of jewellery shops… too funny… saw some stunning scenery and had a great ride on a narrow gauge railway…
I love it when I am able to take the time to relive amazing events, as well as tiny little ones…
so lucky to see these beautiful blooming trees last week… they are stunning for such a short time and easy to miss…
special moments…
24 Sunday Apr 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized
enjoyed a lovely walk in two parks this afternoon…
haven’t walked through Truro Park for ages…
looking up the creek as I started my walk…
this is the spot where we scattered George’s ashes…
spent some time taking pictures of the water along my walk… this was my favourite… took it in Bruce Park…
just love the sound of running water… makes me happy…
haven’t been this way in a while… last time I walked here regularly was when I was recovering from my surgery and talking daily short walks…
the final treat was spotting these two ducks on my way back…
a gorgeous wood duck and his partner…
will have to walk through that area on a regular basis so I might get to see some babies…
looking forward to getting the pond working soon so that I can hear the running water right here…
20 Wednesday Apr 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, box, chocolate, colleagues, home, New York, pictures, widow, work
nice to get back to work and see all my colleagues…
brought them a taste of chocolate from New York… they were in a cute little wooden box and no one wanted to open it…
eventually I broke the seal, removed the ribbon and took a few pictures…
finally some pieces were eaten, lol…
caught up with all the news and shared some travel stories…
nice to be home…
05 Tuesday Apr 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, camera, computer, eyefi, histograph, iPad, iPhone, pictures, snow, Technology, widow
happy today to get my camera back from the hospital… it had been there for a couple of weeks and I was really missing it…
pleased it wasn’t an expensive fix and it is back to its usual wonderful self…
am going to have to re-enter all the info about my eyefi to get it connected again, so that will be a job for the next few days…
had a friend look at the Olympus to remove the histograph from the view on the screen… I had tried a few times, without any success, to delete it as I find it distracting… he couldn’t figure it out either, lol…
had some fun downloading pictures from my iPhone to my computer at work… this was great because I had taken 77 pictures of an event last week and wanted to get them into a folder on my office computer and didn’t want to send them in groups of four by email… much simpler and way quicker…
technology is great when you think about it…
just this afternoon we were looking at a form we had used six years ago when I started… it collected all the information but was handwritten so then we had to guess what had been entered… now, we email a fillable form which comes back typed and makes entering the data simple… if it isn’t filled out when a person arrives, we have an iPad available so that it can be completed in the office…
here’s the view out the window today…
enough with the snow already…
23 Wednesday Mar 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, geese, glittering, light, pattern, pictures, sun, widow
over the weekend I took a few interesting pictures…
this one is of the glittering snow on the roof of the garage…
a lovely pattern showed up as well…
when we were coming out of the store on Sunday I could hear the geese and when I looked up I saw them… it was so bright that I couldn’t see them, but snapped a few pictures…
not bad when I couldn’t actually see…
and finally I got this shot of the sun behind haze…
pulled over to take the shot… it was a strange sky…
the light was bright for all of these, lol…
14 Monday Mar 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
. soup, basil, beloved, big girl pants, conversation, entertaining, garden, pictures, ReImagining, salad, St. Patrick's Day, widow, zucchini
had a wonderful day…
began with making my favourite zucchini basil soup for tonight’s dinner…
took the time to take pictures of each step in the process…
turned out great… as I worked on each step I thought of the people coming for dinner and how lovely it will be to see them and spend time together…
the hardest part of making this is finding the basil and zucchini at the same time… much simpler in the summer, lol…
had the screen door open as I was working on the soup… was so beautiful, decided to eat my lunch on the deck and read for a bit… the sun was so warm…
set the table and went for a walk…
planned the dinner with St. Patrick’s day in mind, thus the green soup, lol… enjoyed preparing it as I don’t do much entertaining these days…
made a huge garden salad and shredded a bbq rotisserie chicken to go along with the soup and some fresh bread… the salad reminded me of my beloved’s wonderful salads… have not been able to recreate them…
also set up our conversation spot to focus on lean-to/support to go along with a program one of the group had sent everyone…
took the last few minutes before their arrival to sit and relax…
dinner was enjoyed by everyone, and we had some thoughtful conversation…
21 Thursday Jan 2016
Posted in family, health, life, nature, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, brighten, iPhone, light, orchid, pictures, roots, skyline, snowflakes
this morning I took some pictures of the orchid… it is lasting amazingly well…
sure does brighten up the living room…
have been doing a bit of reading on orchids and discovered that the roots hanging out of the pot were not as healthy as I thought… apparently they might need to be repotted…
snow fell off and on during the day in those big huge flakes again… so peaceful…
when I got home I took a few pictures of snowflakes on the mailbox…
but I didn’t take any with the camera… too lazy to dig it out so just used the iPhone…
opened up the sliding door for the first time in months so I could get a shot of the snow on the chair and table on the deck…
really enjoying the longer light each day…
final picture of the day was of the skyline as the sun was going down…
the extra light certainly brightens my day…
18 Friday Dec 2015
Posted in health, life, nature, technology, Uncategorized
my girl is home for a few days… yay…
we’ve been taking pictures since she arrived…
first ones were of the Deadly Chocolate Mousse cake from Baked Expectations… her favourite… my other daughter had picked it up and delivered it to my office for me… she wiped out but thankfully both she and the cake were fine…
she took quite a few of the Christmas trees and I took a few of her taking pictures, lol…
I also got a few of the beautiful hydrangea arrangement that a dear friend had delivered to the office this morning…
pretty wonderful day for me…
to top off the day we had beef bones from Tony Roma’s, another of her favourites… not exactly the best thing for me, but a treat now and again is fair…
lots of visiting and catching up and now we are heading out for a hot tub… it is wonderful to have the company out there and she loves it as much as I do…
holy days…
herbiggirlpants 