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shade…

16 Tuesday Aug 2016

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took some lovely flower pictures at the Park on the weekend, so wanted to share a few of them with you…

seems I am drawn to blooms made up of tiny flowers, lol… lovely shade of purple…

multi shades of pink… odd I would be drawn to this…

and yellow-y orange…

there is a whole section filled with beautifully coloured foxglove… such a pretty light shade of purple… 

really admire the way the gardeners combine the plants to get such striking beds…

these roses were heavy with the dew…

final view before leaving the English Garden…

flowers do make me happy…

sounds…

16 Saturday Jul 2016

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spent a very quiet day… well, I was quiet but not so much the air around me, lol…

the birds took turns in the garden… 

three crows were on the roof of the house for a long time this morning while chickadees flitted back and forth between the feeders and cedars… both of these groups were vying to be the loudest, couldn’t decide who won…

I was busy checking out the tomatoes…

the cherry tomato plant is dripping with fruit, although they haven’t started to turn colour just yet…

but the bigger ones are starting to change… woo hoo… soon there will be some yummy eating going on…

can hardly wait… then the chickadees and crows were gone…

a bit later the sparrows came to the garden… they ate at all three feeders, flitted from tree to tree, had drinks in the pond and baths by the waterfall…

the pond looks so great with the rocks and plants in just the right places…

love the purple flowers on this little plant that is floating in an island…

read, watched and listened to the visitors and the waterfall, ate and napped… even got in some time on the treadmill…

later in the afternoon the rain started and the sound of it hitting the windows was rather peaceful…

haven’t spoken a word today, but have done lots of listening;-)…

inside the datura…

Atlanta Day 3…

18 Saturday Jun 2016

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another lovely day… cooler but with a nice breeze…


got a quick picture beside one of the water features at the W…


we started our day at the Green Farmers Market where we found a few things to eat and buy… then it was on to the Atlanta Botanical Garden… we found a shortcut to get there;-)…

it was the purple things that jumped out at me today…


this purple hibiscus was beautiful…

we finally spotted the bullfrog we’d heard yesterday… big one…

the water lilies looked great against the multi-coloured lily pads…

this purple fountain at dinner was nice too…

thunder…

12 Sunday Jun 2016

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quiet day, well except for the thunder… and the rain… 

this was the sky in two directions around ten this morning…

dark and brooding toward the west…

but it looked like it was clearing to the east… not true, lol… rained off and on all day…


my lunch included the last of a bbq grocery store chicken… bought it about a week ago and have been eating it since then… made dinners, a few work lunches, and some meals over the weekend… a friend who has had a difficult year talked about how she had lived on these for months on end as it was a healthy option that didn’t involve a great expenditure of energy to produce…

my goal for the last year and a half has been to ensure there are veggies at every meal… so for this lunch I made gazpacho… pretty happy with how many vegetables I got into it… celery, sad grape tomatoes, cucumbers, green onions, mini peppers and basil from the (very wet!) deck… tasty…

chose outfits and packed my bag… hoping I have enough cool clothes as apparently it is very warm in Atlanta… 

yesterday I picked up a top and couple of pairs of shorts to add to the mix…


barely taking anything that is purple… still need to find something in case it is cold…

discovery…

08 Wednesday Jun 2016

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early this morning I discovered a dragonfly in the kitchen… found a container, slid it in and popped it outside… kind of fun to find it and be able to deal with it…

took a walk around the garden and found a few lovely things…


purple flowers on the eggplant… looking forward to some fruit… also love the cute pansies in the background…

and I spotted some blooms on the little iris…


they are likely going to be purple too, lol…

watered all the pots and planters with rain water which also helped with my step count…

sure do appreciate having a few minutes to enjoy the garden first thing in the day… 

had a bit of a giggle as I drove through pouring rain on my way home… guess I didn’t need to do that early morning watering…

benches…

03 Friday Jun 2016

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what a wonderful morning…

walked to the Park and met my buddy… we had a lovely wander through the English and Leo Mol Gardens…


I do like Bleeding Hearts but don’t seem able to grow them, no matter where I put them…


a peony starting to open… made me think of the peonies that we dug out of our front flower bed when we moved into the house… I dislike ants and therefore didn’t want the peony bushes which are usually covered in them… discovered later that they were prize winners, lol…


the benches are back, and they are new… we sat and visited for a while on mine – well the one that my beloved and I would always rest on when we walked through the Gardens…

every time I am in the Gardens there are new plantings and things to see… great to be making regular visits and seeing the constant changes…


a momma duck and her babies popped into the water as we were circling the Duck Pond… so cute…


took a number of pics of lilacs… actually  one of every four, lol… quite a few were in the Gardens, but also saw them on my way to and from the Park…

they smell delicious… and they’re purple…

special…

30 Monday May 2016

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had a lovely evening…

dinner with a most special woman to celebrate our friendship…

we sat on couches on a patio in the sunshine and traded gifts with one another…

she treated me to a beautiful purple bird feeder and a solar dragonfly for the garden…


for her I’d found a compact umbrella and wrapped it with a pretty scarf… she is one of the best wrappers I have ever come across, so I was feeling a bit of pressure to do a good job, lol… she thought it looked great, yay…

had a virgin Caesar that had three olives in it… practically a meal…


followed that with a delicious pizza… tasty…


once I arrived home I found that two of the dahlias are breaking through the soil in one of the pots… very exciting…


ended the evening with three more special women… we shared stories of recent activities and had a picture presentation of one’s recent trip to the Galapagos Islands…

what a treat the evening has been… 

I continue to be blessed with so many special people in my life…

smoothie…

24 Tuesday May 2016

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woke up early and started my day with a smoothie and a walk on the treadmill… 

then I got to spend a short time in the garden…and took a few pictures of some purple flowers…

these are looking very nice with the white alyssum in the planter boxes around the deck…


there is something about calla lilies that just grabs my heart…


these beauties are on the front steps…

for many years in the summer I would start my day with a walk all around the garden… that was when George was weeding, lol…

the side garden is overgrown so I couldn’t make it around there, but I did get to take a wander around the rest of the space…

certainly gets one into a peaceful state of mind…

rocks…

29 Friday Apr 2016

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what a wonderful day…

met up with my son-in-law and we went in search of rocks for the pond…

we found some river stone for the bottom of the pond and eventually some nice sized fieldstone for around the perimeter as I haven’t felt the flat slate edge worked well…  
 

we also picked up a power washer…

   

came home and someone played with it for quite a while…

 

had lunch on the deck, put together the hammock, enjoyed looking at my new hibiscus, and headed out for more fun…
  

found a rain barrel on sale, some dahlias and three air plants…

  

very happy with the barrel as the garbage can I’d been using sprang a leak at the end of last year… this one is very fancy and can hold plants in the top…

picked up the boys from school and on our way back here, stopped for soft ice cream and found purple gazing balls – 3 different sizes which I think will float in the pond… and the kids bought them for me for Mother’s Day;-)… 

  

this was my first ice cream of the year… woo hoo… ordered Chinese food and while we were waiting for it to arrive, work began on cleaning and re-rocking the pond… 

  
finished filling the pond after they left and got the waterfall going… it sounds wonderful…

great to spend time in the garden… even got to sit out in the chairs for a bit…

fit…

14 Thursday Apr 2016

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a while ago I noticed that my Fitbit Flex band was breaking…

after I bought the Fitbit I ordered a purple band… I know, you are shocked… about a year later it ripped, so I ordered a set with 3 in it… a purple, pink, and turquoise one… of course I’ve only worn the purple one, but I was able to give the turquoise one to a friend… still need to find someone who could use the pink…

it’s been about another year when I noticed this break…

instead of just buying a new one, I emailed them, thanks to a suggestion from my daughter… they responded very quickly and said they would send a replacement… at no charge…

when I arrived home today there was a parcel on the step…

  

yay… and here is the new one on my wrist…

Fitbit Flex band

another exciting piece is that now it only has two open spots where it fastens… in the last year or so it has moved at least five spaces… I was actually wearing the small size while I was waiting for the replacement to arrive…

  
another visible example of how much weight I have lost… way to go me…

life is good…