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…
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…
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…
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…
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;-)…
20 Tuesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, biomes, blessed, flags, flora, flowers, food, friends, garden, gather, happy, moments, nature, orchids, Philippines, plants, pond, Technology, trees, widow
had a fun time at The Leaf today…
went with a friend to see Flora of the Philippines…
we couldn’t figure out the new markers on many of the plants in the Tropical Biome, but eventually realized they represented the flag of the Philippines and demonstrated how many of the plants in the biomes originated there…
besides seeing where so many plants came from, there were hundreds of orchids… heaven for me…
what a treat…
after our wander through the biomes, we had lunch at Gather…
what a delightful way to spend time together;-)…
04 Sunday Feb 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, moments, nature, orchid, phalaenopsis, plants, purple, widow
I’ve been waiting patiently for this phalaenopsis orchid to open…
here it was on Friday…
Saturday…
and today…
it is beautiful and different from the other one that has been open for awhile…
in my mind I was thinking they might turn out to be the same, lol… but not;-)…
whenever I look at my orchids I always think of my beloved, who brought them to me all the time…
28 Sunday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, caddy, grandson, happy, light, moments, plants, shelves, shower, shower caddy, space, Technology, widow
not too long ago I saw a cool use of a shower caddy…
it had been tucked in a corner of a room and had puck lights under the shelves to provide light for each of the plants…
I’d been looking online but hadn’t yet ordered one… here’s the spot where it will go…
today I got a shelf from Home Depot and we made a few adjustments as we put it together;-)…
ended up leaving the top portion of the pipe off and using some cord holders and zip ties to attach the pipe to the wall…
I decided not to use any additional lights as the spot this is set in gets a lot of light…
I am pleased with how it came out… and may have to get a few more plants, lol…
25 Thursday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cushions, fern, health, Japanese Maple, leaves, moments, nature, overcast, plants, purple, rearranging, weather, widow
I am getting very tired of the overcast days;-(… today it was dreary even though the temperature was near 0°…
I spent time rearranging some of the plants in the living and dining rooms…
I added a couple of plants to the area around the Japanese Maple…
the fern from the den was taken outside and shaken because it was losing fronds like crazy…
after getting the loose pieces off, I moved it to the living room, hoping it might like the new spot better, although I’m not sure I like that spot, lol…
the dracaena got moved into a less bright space and I am contemplating a stand to go where it had previously been that would hold more plants, lol…
after that I rearranged and put away pillows…
now, if we could just have some sunshine…
23 Tuesday Jan 2024
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anticipation, big girl pants, blessed, crocus, daffodils, flowers, happy, hyacinth, moments, plants, pot, Safeway, shopping, Spring, tulips, weather, widow
on Sunday we took a trip to Safeway to find some spring plants… this is the time of year that I need lots of things blooming around me…
we found individual pots of hyacinth and crocus… then a pot with tulips, daffodils, primrose, and hyacinth in it… I got them all, lol…
I am enjoying watching them as they open and anticipating the scent;-)…
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