09 Monday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, blossoms, flowers, garden, happy place, mandevilla, moments, morning glories, purple, rain, widow
got this shot of the morning glories before leaving for the office…
not only can you see the bloom that opened this morning (purple) but yesterday’s one as well (pink)… even a few mandevilla blossoms are visible…
good thing because it has been raining since leaving the office…
07 Saturday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, flowers, garden, glories, happy place, memories, morning glories, plants, purple, sunshine, widow
I am over-the-moon with excitement…
some time ago I realized that I hadn’t planted any morning glories and was very sad because I really love the flowers… the inner light is mesmerizing…
recently I realized that some seeds from last summer had sprouted in a large container of soil that was sitting under the deck… they hadn’t had any water or sunlight but were growing…
I moved the pot out into the sun and made sure to put water in it… and watched it every day…
a week ago I saw what looked to be buds and I’ve examined them each day to see what would happen… since then we’ve had quite a bit of rain, overcast skies, and cooler temperatures, so I’ve been worried they wouldn’t bloom…
but… this is what happened…
I spent extra time in the garden today sitting and enjoying the purple flowers…
I am in my happy place… flowers really do make me happy;-)…
03 Tuesday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, chickadees, flowers, garden, memories, photos, purple, sparse, widow
got some shots of flowers and birds in the garden…
sadly it seems that the flowers are getting a bit more sparse… temperatures are falling and the light is receding bit by bit…
also got a few photos of the chickadees as they were flitting back and forth to the feeder… they move so fast that I am always thrilled when I get a shot…
took these with my actual camera…
wondering when I need to bring in the Japanese Maple and the hibiscus… if I wait too long they get rather grumpy and lose all their leaves, lol…
01 Sunday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, bikers, cell phone, haircut, motorcycles, posed, purple, walk, widow
walked over to get a trim at Ultracuts after the rain stopped yesterday… came out very nice…
on my walk back home I came across a group of bikers at the gas station… made me giggle to see one person checking out their cell phone as they waited for others to get gas…
I asked if I might take his photo and he said yes and posed, lol… then I asked if he would go back to looking at his phone, because that was the shot I wanted…
31 Saturday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, Falcon Lake, magnet, nature, pictures, purple, screen, shopping, widow
last year around this time we went out to Falcon Lake for some camping fun…
I picked up the cutest magnetic screen protectors, shaped like butterflies… I put the three of them on the patio screen door…
recently I caught this picture of an actual butterfly on the screen…
wondered if it was having a visit with its magnet friends, lol…
08 Thursday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, cabinet, desk, flowers, mess, orchids, plant whisperer, plants, purple, whisperer, widow
for the last few weeks my desk has been a bit messed up as I had loaned out a small rolling filing cabinet…
this meant that all my plants, mainly orchids, ended up on the desktop, making it a bit crowded…
today, I got the cabinet back and our amazing plant whisperer reorganized the space… she remembered exactly how it should look, which was good because I couldn’t remembered what went where…
looks amazing now… and the space has a much calmer feeling;-)… ahhh…
19 Friday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, birds, bunnies, finches, garden, photos, purple, rejuvenating, show, sparrows, widow
spent the morning in the garden enjoying the show…
there were sparrows – clay coloured, house, chipping, maybe others as they can be hard to identify sometimes… along with purple finches…
they don’t really play that well together but eventually the finches seemed to accept the sparrows being at the feeder at the same time as them…
I took a great video, but haven’t quite figured out how I can post one here, lol…
dozens of the sparrows flitted about the garden… on the furniture, various decks, garage roof, at the feeder and drinking at the pond…
what a lovely time I had enjoying the activity…
and just now the teeniest bunny ran by about five feet from me… wasn’t fast enough to catch a photo, but what a cutie…
time in the garden is rejuvenating…
18 Thursday Jul 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, bird, camera, colleagues, finch, garden, happy, lush, purple, purple finch, rain, song, widow
this morning I spent some time in the garden before heading to work…
we’ve had a fair bit of rain over the last while and it is looking rather lush…
of course the grass needs to be cut, lol…
as I was sitting enjoying the view, the purple finch came by for a snack… such a beautiful bird… also has a lovely song…
I got a few good photos, then left my camera at work…
one of my amazing colleagues picked it up and brought it to me… this is particularly great as I don’t work tomorrow and was going to have to go in and get it;-)…
I am looking forward to spending some quality time in the garden tomorrow;-)…
17 Wednesday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, CSA box, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, purple, purple finch, suffered, sunrise, widow
started my day at 5:15 and got this photo of the sunrise… it really shows the colour perfectly… within an hour it was overcast… lucky to have been up to see it…
a bit later I went out to take a photo of the hibiscus… it suffered greatly when it moved outside and finally has some flowers starting… and while I was there the purple finch popped over to the feeder;-)…
nearly late for my ride because I didn’t want to stop watching the finch flit to and from the feeder…
Wednesday our CSA box portions arrive… we’ve divided it into four portions which is working perfectly…
tonight I made a smoothie with the strawberries and plan on eating the peas and carrots tomorrow… and the purple pepper is gorgeous;-)…
another great day…
16 Tuesday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, camera, crisp, feeder, finch, friends, full moon, garden, moon, photos, purple, purple finch, shutter, widow
last night met with my friends on the deck… although the temperature was in the 30s, there was a gentle breeze blowing which made us very comfortable…
the purple finch family were back at the bird feeder, and chased off a squirrel…
we watched a huge yellow moon rising while we visited;-)… I didn’t get any photos, just enjoyed the view…
later in the evening I spent some time back on the deck with my camera and tripod getting some pictures of the nearly full moon…
I am always amazed at how quickly the moon moves when you are taking pictures…
after all was said and done, this is my favourite photo…
my new camera is supposed to let me use my phone to click the shutter, but for some reason it just won’t work… hoping to find a way to get that option working and maybe take crisper pics…
