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poppy…

06 Monday Jun 2016

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized

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ajar, big girl pants, door, flower, George, hesitate, poppy, ups and downs, widow

here’s how the day has gone…

when I arrived home tonight, after seven, I found the back door ajar…


cleaners were here mid afternoon… so, likely it’s been unlocked for three hours… 

I didn’t even hesitate to go in… or even bother to look around for intruders… clearly it just didn’t get closed properly…

then I looked out the window and saw this…


went out and spent a few minutes enjoying the poppy flower… it’s a beauty and may be the only one this year as I don’t see any other buds in the garden… 

the year George died there were over forty blooms… never had that many flowers before or since…

really happy that I saw it because they are usually a single day flower… might be gone tomorrow…

ups and downs, lol…

exercising…

12 Friday Jun 2015

Posted by sulis303 in health, life, nature

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Banff, big girl pants, cd, eating, exercising, garden, poppy, stomach

was talking with someone recently about eating and exercise… they were noticing that eating and then going for a walk or doing any type of exercise is getting more difficult for them…

reminded me of when I really learned that lesson…

it was 2000 and I had travelled to Banff, Alberta to make a cd with a group of women from across Canada and the U.S… we had an amazing time… it was beautiful there, the studio was great, and the food was wonderful… we stayed midway up a mountain, walked, what felt like straight up, to get to the restaurant and then further up to the studio…

if we ate too much of the delicious food, we could barely make it up the hill to our destination… apparently your stomach needs to work after eating and your whole body is actively taking part in the process…

took us a while to figure it out and then we started to eat much smaller portions, lol… making the music was magical and something I will always remember…

this morning, after my smoothie, I walked around the garden, which, thankfully, is flat, and got a few pictures…

  

this is the last poppy with the sun shining through it…
 
this little sedge (I think) growing in the pond has a lovely “flower” on it… 

and the morning glories are just peeking through the soil… hurrah:-)…

  
the garden is moving along nicely…

remembering…

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, nature

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George, hibiscus, poppy, remembering, snow

woke up to snow on the ground this morning…

snow on the ground...

snow on the ground…

when I went downstairs a red hibiscus was in full bloom and I could see the snow on the ground… reminded me of a poppy…

hibiscus with snow through window...

hibiscus with snow through window…

spent a good portion of the morning watching the Remembrance Day service from Ottawa…

sunrise...

sunrise…

remembering my mother and father and George’s father and their service to our country… neither my father or George’s ever talked about what they did…

my mom’s work involved removing or adjusting pictures of ships so that when they were published in newspapers anywhere in the world they wouldn’t be recognizable as a certain ship… she was heavily involved in having this statue designed and raised at the Legislative grounds… this picture was one I downloaded from the internet, and there was no information about who took it…

statue of women in the three services at the Manitoba Legislature building...

statue of women in the three services at the Manitoba Legislature building…

had a quiet day thinking of them and also George… his dad died just a few days before Remembrance Day which made the day very special for both of us…

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