beautiful sky tonight…


looked amazing next to the glass ornament;-)…
20 Saturday Dec 2025
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04 Friday Jul 2025
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it was a hot one…
right now, at 9:50 pm, the temperature is 28°C and feels like 33°C…

looked out the window to see these beautiful clouds;-)…
and just a few minutes later, they were gone…
so happy when I catch a lovely moment;-)…
31 Tuesday Dec 2024
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last sunset of the year…

lots of pink…
what a beauty;-)…
07 Wednesday Aug 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlias, flowers, garden, happy, hues, Lilystone Gardens, moments, nature, pink, plants, purple, surprise, treat, weather, white, widow
I have been so excited…
for a number of years, I’ve been overwintering dahlia corms, but haven’t had tons of luck… sometimes I know what they are and other times they are a surprise when they get put away…
one white one has proven very prolific and it has produced at least a dozen blooms so far this year in three different pots…

these are about the size of my palm…
a delightful feathery one that I purchased last year at Lilystone Gardens has come back nicely and has a number of blooms and buds in one pot…

each bloom is bigger than my hand…
these have all been white so I was particularly excited to see one come up in a pot that looked like it was pinky/purple…

it is a bit smaller than the white pompom-looking ones, but stands out in all its pink and purple hues…
nature is so amazing…
16 Thursday Feb 2023
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I was checking my pink avocado plant and was reminded of when it was first planted…

since then it has grown quite a bit and is still pink, although there are little bits of green on some leaves…
not sure if it has some type of issue or not… more research might suggest it is an albino plant and that it may not live for too long…
will continue to watch and see how it does…
16 Friday Sep 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, concept, family, find, garage, lost, moments, pink, toolkit, tools, widow
recently had a conversation with my neighbour… she talked about her set of tools… her husband has a garage full of tools…
it made me think of the tools in my kitchen drawer… my beloved also had a garage and basement filled with tools but it was never clear where the particular item was when it was needed, lol…
because of that, I started to gather my own set… a pink multi set screwdriver, a hammer, and a pair of pliers… a pink screwdriver was very obvious and I always knew where it was, and even when he used any of my tools, he knew to put them back…

full disclosure, I may have tidied that portion of the drawer for the photo, lol…
I know other women who have their own set of tools as well… here are a few of theirs…

now, I have a garage with other tools that I am learning to use… and they go back after each use…
what a concept;-)…
17 Saturday Mar 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, fried egg, hyacinth, memories, pink, purple, replicate, sandwich, scent, widow
thinking of my beloved a lot recently… for the past few days I’ve been thinking of his fried egg sandwiches…
this morning I made an open-faced version using some of the French bread from La Belle Baguette that I picked up yesterday…

I can’t replicate what he did… they were always especially yummy… although that might have to do with how much butter he would add to the bread, lol… and the eggs were always perfectly cooked with soft yolks…
I picked up a few hyacinths the other day… left one at work and brought one home for the bedroom… just love the scent as they open… as it bloomed, discovered that it was pink… I usually get the purple ones…
made me realize how much pink there is currently in the bedroom… I held the hyacinth up to the new curtains which have purples and pinks in them… then realized that my afghan has pink in it as well… and when I put away some laundry in the closet – which I recently hung by colour – I spotted some pink as well…

very interesting as pink has never really been one of my colours…
06 Monday Nov 2017
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spent some time at Rona on Saturday looking for just the right colour of paint for the bedroom…
brought home this paint chip and think it may have just the right colour…

I am often drawn to a colour by the name…
the one I am leaning towards is Angel’s Gaze… cool for a bedroom and has a slight pink tone…
for years the living room was painted a lovely pale pink which made it so welcoming and comfortable…
looking forward to the changes…
08 Tuesday Nov 2016
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this morning the sky was lovely and light as I drove to work… stopped and took this picture through the car window…
I took this shot at 5:11 on my way home, and it was already getting dark… the sky had a pink cast to it…
and the trees were already lit…
as I was heading upstairs for a nap, I spotted the red colour out the window so took a few pictures and ran downstairs to get some from outside the front door…
beautiful moments to savour…
22 Friday Jan 2016
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on my way out to the car this morning — with my hands full of various bits and bags for work — I had to stop and take a picture of the pink sky…

my driving buddy thought I’d fallen as it took me a few extra seconds to get to the car, lol…
took lots of pictures as we drove downtown… you never know, when the sky is so beautiful, when it will vanish…
at lunch I went for a walk with my daughter as our yoga class was cancelled… did well, particularly as I hadn’t planned on walking… had a spare jacket to put under my coat and pulled up my hood… only my legs got cold…
then my grandson met me at the office and came to shovel… afterwards we had leftover lentils with brown basmati rice along with roasted brussel sprouts and mushrooms…
he chose the menu and prepped the veggies… we had a lovely visit and he headed home on the bus…
what a treat…