31 Friday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blue morpho butterfly, eclosion, moments, nature, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, volunteering, watching, widow
had a wonderful time watching the blue morpho eclosion this morning in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden;-)…
so happy to have the opportunity to watch this taking place during my volunteer shift;-)…
by the time I left, seven of them were in the process of eclosing…
07 Monday Oct 2024
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at last, big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, Costa Rica, moments, nature, Shirley, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, widow
there are butterflies back in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden at The Leaf…
yay…
19 Sunday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, Blue Morpho, butterflies, elusive, garden, happy, moments, nature, orange, photos, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sun, The Leaf, treat, walk, widow
had a fun time in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden at The Leaf on Thursday… it wasn’t too cold outside and bright so there was lots of activity…
a fair number of people were in the space and there were many butterflies…
apparently I was enamoured with the orange ones, lol…
this little one sat and offered different poses;-)…
and, of course, I tried to catch the elusive Blue Morpho… there were quite a few of them, but what makes it elusive is that you need to catch it in flight to capture the blue colour, lol… but I did get a partial shot;-)…
at least you can see some of the blue…
spending time in this space sure does make me happy;-)…
29 Sunday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, flowers, garden, moments, Morpho, nature, plants, search, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sunshine, Technology, widow
lots of butterflies in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… also many people…
the sun was shining so they were flitting about the whole space…
the blue Morpho butterfly is very sneaky and would not let me catch a single photo of it with the gorgeous blue when the wings are open…
next time I will take a video and then a still from that, lol…
the butterflies arrive as chrysalis from Costa Rica on a regular basis and are released into the space once they emerge…
so, each time you are in the Garden, there will likely be different varieties…
it is such fun to search for them in amongst the foliage…
04 Tuesday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, butterflies, dragonflies, garden, insecta, monarch, pond, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, water lilies, widow
I’ve noticed quite a few dragonflies flitting around the garden recently…
on Sunday, when I was taking pictures of the water lilies in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, I caught a dragonfly on the lily pad…
and yesterday I spent a short time in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… it was sunny so the butterflies that were there were very active…
there weren’t many there but I got a few pictures…
butterflies and dragonflies are part of the family of insecta…
I might have a small collection of memorabilia, but no actual butterflies or dragonflies…
hoping for some monarchs in the garden…
14 Wednesday Sep 2016
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Assiniboine Park Zoo, big girl pants, Bruce Park, English Garden, happy, Leo Mol Garden, photos, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sunshine, widow
took a few photos over the weekend that made me happy, so decided to share them with you…
Bob and Tom who took us on a wagon ride at the Zoo… they are so cute…
a beautiful butterfly posing in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden…
a jet flying over the soccer fields on its way in to land…
sun and shadows on a wonderful walk through Bruce Park, while I was getting poke balls at PokeStops…
a pile of flower petals in the English Garden…
a stunning purple water lily in the lily pond at the Leo Mol Garden…
finally the view out the window this morning…
sunshine is one of the things that always makes me happy…
16 Wednesday Jul 2014
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Assiniboine Park Zoo, butterflies, Hudson, Journey to Churchill, polar bear, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, water, wild things
Journey to Churchill… the newest addition to the Assiniboine Park Zoo… it opened on July 3rd, but I haven’t had an opportunity to get there, particularly as it has been very busy on the weekends…
the last time I was there was in May and there was still lots of work to be done… the worst thing was the paths as they were filled with potholes and water… we had been going through a very rainy time… the other thing that has been a pain for over a year is that you had to walk all the way around on one side and then retrace your steps and go all the way around the other side… both of those issues have been resolved… the path is great – level and easy to walk on… and, at last, you can walk all the way around the zoo, woo hoo…
it is stunning…
muskox through the rocks…
the polar bear area is wonderful… there are lots of glass water viewing spots…
great viewing spots…
a few places to sit and watch for a while, and a wonderful tunnel under the water where you can see the bears swimming, and see all the way to the sky…
glass tunnel…
we found the seals swimming in a lovely spot where they were very easy to view…
seals cavorting…
the vistas into the space make you feel like you could step right into the beautiful setting…
vistas…
sadly, the early afternoon is often when the bears are napping, but we did get to see Hudson…
Hudson…
he was napping, but right by an open spot where he could see people… there were two interpreters there as well, answering questions… Kaska and Aurora, the two females, and Storm the other male, weren’t around…
great picture of one of the inukshuk’s with some of the group… a bit bigger than the one in my garden, lol…
little break at an inukshuk
we checked out other animals and finished up at the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden…
resting butterfly, maybe a viceroy…
we got a group photo just before heading our separate ways…
wild things…
a wonderFULL time… I am looking forward to going back very soon to see it all again…
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