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project…

14 Friday Jan 2022

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this year my Christmas project was Post-It notes made with one of my photos on them…

took a while to decide on just the correct picture… in the end I chose a picture of a poppy that I took in the garden this summer… my Ottawa kids did some work removing the background for me…

always happy when I am able to use one of my photographs for a project…

I also produced cards with four different winter pictures to go with them…

working with my art always fills me with happiness…

open…

08 Tuesday Jun 2021

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woke up to twelve open poppies yesterday…

was quite surprised as they usually open one or two at a time…

they look lovely, particularly with the reflection in the pond…

the goldfish add to the pretty orange colours, lol…

can’t stop taking photos of them…

poppies…

04 Friday Jun 2021

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two days ago the poppies were looking excellent, and fairly close to opening…

often they will open one or two at a time which is great, because their season is very short…

this morning I looked out after the storm and spotted these beauties…

what a delightful treat;-)…

wait…

11 Sunday Apr 2021

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this morning I sprinkled poppy seeds in the garden… hope they take… the poppies are always the first flower to bloom… they self-seed and some years there are just one or two and other years there are lots of blooms… it is amazing that they come back, even after the garden bed was completely dug up eight years ago…

I have also been enjoying the morning glory seedlings… I can hardly wait to plant them outside;-)…

I can see morning glories everywhere;-)…

ferns…

02 Tuesday Jun 2020

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a very quiet day…

slow to rise and made french toast with the last of the whole wheat bread…

watched a few morning shows and then headed out to the garden…

planted the last of the flowers still in the garage and spent time reading…

have not seen a single bird today, but I did get a few nice photos…

happy with this great shot of the ferns which are growing so quickly…

the poppies are getting closer and closer to opening and I check them out every morning…

I also cut some lily of the valley for the bedroom… they have finally opened and the scent is lovely…

garage…

30 Saturday May 2020

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took this photo of one of the poppies that is growing in the garden…

I am hoping that all of these buds will continue to grow and bloom although the temperature has been a bit crazy the last few days…

Thursday night I brought some of the plants into the house and covered those around the deck…

last night I put all of them into the garage, except for a couple of heavy ones just outside the kitchen… happily, the clematis seems to be doing fine…

I left them there all day because the temperature is going down again tonight…

I think the weather is going to be improving so they can all move back outside tomorrow…

huge…

22 Saturday Jun 2019

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yesterday I was enjoying the poppies in the English Garden… they were huge…

reminded me of some others I’ve seen recently…

… one of the blossoms as it was opening in our garden…

… a photo that my daughter sent me from Ottawa as she was taking a walk…

… the giant poppies at the Park…

… then there is the postcard I received in the mail…

… and finally, a shot of the sunlight shining on one of only four blooms this year…

my beloved and I have always loved poppies and seeing them makes me remember him and fun times in the garden…

swallow…

10 Monday Jun 2019

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turned the hose on to top up the pond again yesterday… maybe the wind has been evaporating the water more quickly because it wasn’t particularly hot…

then I got focussed on a few other things… was on my way to the garage to go grocery shopping and decided to check out the poppies before leaving…

when I got over there I realized that the water was still going… turned it off just as it was going to swallow up the bridge…

yikes… that was close…

flowerbed…

26 Sunday May 2019

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today my grandson came over to move the rocks out of the flowerbed in an effort to make it easier for when the gardener is able to start work…

while I was over there I checked out the couple of poppies that have come up… we used to have many, many poppies in the garden, but over the last few years there have been fewer and fewer…

looks like there will be a couple of flowers… pretty exciting…

might be the last ones;-(…

geraniums…

16 Saturday Jun 2018

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still thinking about those poppies…

when we were walking around the English Garden yesterday these poppies popped out at me…

a few weeks ago, one of the baskets we picked up had geraniums in it amongst the purple and white flowers…

I wasn’t sure I wanted to buy it because I am not fond of the scent of geraniums… my daughter suggested I remove them, but I decided to leave them in the container… a few died, but some have survived…

I’m finding now that the pop of red reminds me of the poppies, which remind me of my beloved… it also reminds me of my mother-in-law who planted geraniums alongside her driveway and overwintered them in the basement each year…

each time I walk by the window I see them from a distance and think of my beloved…