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09 Thursday May 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, flowers, garden, moments, nature, northwest, pallet, planting, plants, pond, reading, shade, time, umbrellas, walk, weather, widow

enjoying every beautiful minute I can manage in the garden…

yesterday, I dug pots out of the shed and planted the dahlias… four pots that go along with the one I planted last week…

then I set up a pallet with a plant hanging stand and added the lounge chair in the area to the northwest of the pond… I am hoping this will be a good napping area…

after I put out the cushions, I repaired one umbrella and put the rest up, to see when they provided shade…

after all that I had some lunch and read for awhile, testing out various sitting spots…

finally, I brought more pots out from the shed and set them up in various spots in the garden to be filled with plants;-)…

throughout the afternoon I noted where the chairs got the best shade…

while I was working a bunny came by and snacked on dropped birdseed and many white-crowned sparrows stopped by for drinks and baths…

what a delightful day…

dragged…

26 Friday Apr 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, dragged, flowers, garden, moments, nature, planters, plants, purple, ready, soil, weather, white, widow

Wednesday was a beautiful day in the garden…

went under the top deck and dragged out the planters that fit around it…

loosened the soil and got them ready for planting at the end of May;-)…

that seems like a long time to wait… they were all completely thawed out, but I was happy to get them into the sun…

this year I am going to have more white in the garden and a bit less purple… can you believe it🤪…

few…

20 Saturday Apr 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, family, few, flowers, food, groceries, moments, plants, Safeway, seniors, shopping, treat, widow

on Wednesday we went for a quick visit to Safeway to pick up a few items…

I got flowers and a plant with two types of hyacinth, tulips am daffodils…

seemed like a lovely birthday treat;-)…

and it was seniors’ day so the saving was the same amount as the bouquet…

that was a treat…

the few items did end up filling two bags, lol…

lavender…

23 Saturday Mar 2024

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Ali’i Kula Lavender, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, happy, lavender, Maui, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, purple, remembering, vacation, widow

recently I saw something on Instagram which reminded me of our wonderful visit to Ali’i Kula Lavender on Maui…

it was a beautiful place, with nice lavender fields, but also amazing gardens filled with stunning flowers…

I found a few photos from that day…

this hand towel usually hangs in the bathroom as a lovely reminder of that wonderful day and trip…

so nice when something comes along and reminds you of special moments…

cut…

11 Monday Mar 2024

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yesterday I received a beautiful bouquet of hyacinths… I’ve never had them as cut flowers, always in soil…

what a lovely treat…

they are in a vase on the living room table and I am looking forward to them opening and scenting the house…

recent…

10 Sunday Mar 2024

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anthurium, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, growing, moments, nature, open, patience, plants, purple, recent, widow

watching the anthurium blossom open involves a good deal of patience…

this was the first photo I took of the most recent flower… it was on February 11…

this one on February 20…

February 27 photo…

and this one was from yesterday…

still a ways to go before it is completely open…

narrow…

01 Friday Mar 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, couch, furniture, grandson, moments, narrow, plants, search, shopping, table, Technology, widow

I’ve been looking for ages for a narrow table to go behind the couch in the den…

at one point I even considered having one made by my handyperson…

then I found one that I liked the look of online and eventually decided to order it… it had a spot for a few plugs and usb ports as well…

the package arrived on Wednesday evening and my housemate took it downstairs and put it together while I was reading…

it came up on Thursday morning and went into the living room as I cleared off the table that was currently behind the couch…

after moving many pieces, the new table made it into its final spot…

electrical items were plugged in and then the plants made it onto it and the couch moved back into place…

it is the perfect height and length and looks excellent…

always happy when a project works out well…

replete…

28 Wednesday Feb 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, gratitude, happy place, health, moments, plants, replete, safe, sunshine, widow

often, as I sit in the sunlight here in the living room, I take a moment to celebrate how blessed I am…

a comfortable home, food to eat, family and friends to spend time with, plants and flowers to enjoy, birds and fish to watch, books to read, and good health…

my entire being is replete with gratitude for my life…

then I take a few moments to send thoughts and prayers to so many who are currently not so lucky…

Orchidaceae

23 Friday Feb 2024

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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, biomes, blessed, flowers, happy, koi, moments, nature, orchidaceae, orchids, plants, pond, The Leaf, widow

just for fun I thought I would show some of the orchidaceae that we saw at Flora of the Philippines on Tuesday…

couldn’t help myself, lol…

there were a few other things that I photographed, lol… my buddies, the fish, were swimming around the pond…

we also saw some flowers on the very top of one of the first trees you see on entering the Tropical Biome… we only saw them thanks to a recommendation by one of the volunteers;-)…

another great visit…

fruit…

22 Thursday Feb 2024

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Assiniboine Park, banana, big girl pants, blessed, breadfruit, cacao, cacao pods, food, fruit, kapok tree, moments, nature, plants, star fruit, Technology, The Leaf, widow

recently I’d seen an Instagram post about one of the trees in the Tropical Biome that was flowering…

the branches of the Kapok are bare, but at the very top of the tree, flowers were budding…

I was happy to spot it on our visit Tuesday…

there were lots of volunteers throughout the space and they provided a great deal of information particularly about some of the fruiting trees… we saw cacao pods, jackfruit, star fruit, breadfruit and the fingerlings of bananas…

we had a quick visit with the lead gardener as we discussed the three cacao trees, two of which currently have pods growing on them…

the Tropical Biome is really beginning to feel like the old Conservatory with all the lush growth…

so blessed to have this amazing space to spend time in on a regular basis;-)…

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