11 Thursday Jan 2018
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big girl pants, flowers, hyacinth, moments, scent, smell, snowflakes, stop, widow
this morning on my way to work I had to stop and take a photo of the snowflake wreath hanging on the back door…
trying hard to remember to stop for the moments…
also spent some time smelling my hyacinth tonight… such a beautiful scent…
05 Tuesday Dec 2017
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big girl pants, cool, iPhone, mesmerizing, photos, snowflakes, widow
I love taking pictures of snowflakes, but the conditions have to be just right…
they are so cool and mesmerizing…
got these shots a few days back…
23 Monday Jan 2017
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beautiful, big girl pants, brush, camera, car, pictures, snowflakes, widow
got out to the car around 7:15 pm and there were huge fluffy snowflakes on it… not tons, but enough that I needed to brush them off…
was in a hurry to get home as my Monday night friends arrive between 7:30 and 8 and I wanted to have the coffee going when they turn up…
got out the brush and then had to go back into my purse and get out the camera so I could take a few pictures…
luckily my spot is right by a light so I could get some good shots…
this was the best one…
snowflakes are so beautiful… glad I took the time to check them out…
02 Monday Jan 2017
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big girl pants, chocolate, CMHR, cold, Empowering Women, flight, hot tub, museum, snowflakes, The Forks, tomorrow, widow
started the day with breakfast at the “A” as my son-in-law was leaving around noon… we took the car cause it was kind of chilly out…
good sized snowflakes were coming down so I took a bit of time and got a few good shots…
came home, packed up the son-in-law and dropped him off for his flight…
we ended up waiting with him for over a hour… always sad when they are heading home…
we headed downtown, visited Chocolatier Constance Popp chocolate shop and went to check out the Empowering Women Exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights…
we didn’t walk the ramps due to time constraints but it would have really helped our Fitbit steps, lol…
it was very windy today which made it feel especially cold… but we did go to The Forks for a short wander… nice to check out the renovations…
came home, warmed up leftover steak and lobster for supper, and then headed out for a hot tub…
in now and planning some chocolate tasting with wine and tea… then to bed…
she leaves tomorrow afternoon…
01 Friday Apr 2016
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big girl pants, daffodils, flowers, Krevco, snowflakes, Spring, widow
from Spring flowers to huge snowflakes… what a day…
yesterday I picked up some daffodils and irises… really wanted to add some life to the house… have some upstairs and others in the living room…
makes me happy to have the bright colours around…
also fairly sure I listened to a robin singing while I was laying in bed… and the geese flying over… seems like every day I am hearing new bird songs as they are returning…
around six fifteen tonight I looked outside and saw huge snowflakes coming down very quietly…
had stopped at Krevco earlier and had the water tested… made sure to put all the chemicals in so that I could go out and have a hot tub… been waiting for the fresh water to get up to the correct temperature… not sure now if I’m going out there tonight or not…
pretty though…
03 Wednesday Feb 2016
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big girl pants, camera, focus, light, moments, snow, snowflakes, sunshine
every morning it is lighter… makes me so happy… took this picture as I stepped out the door…
sun shone for a good portion of the day… as I drove downtown the sun lit up the windows of the Hydro building…
but, as the afternoon progressed, the snow started falling… it was still falling when I left the office…
I had a great time cleaning off the car and taking pictures of snowflakes… temperature wasn’t too cold and I enjoyed about fifteen amazing minutes focussing on getting some great shots…
had to clean it again at the end because it was snowing the whole time… what fun…
when I arrived home I took out my camera and spent another few minutes catching snowflakes…
between the light and the snowflake photos it was a glorious day…
21 Thursday Jan 2016
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big girl pants, brighten, iPhone, light, orchid, pictures, roots, skyline, snowflakes
this morning I took some pictures of the orchid… it is lasting amazingly well…
sure does brighten up the living room…
have been doing a bit of reading on orchids and discovered that the roots hanging out of the pot were not as healthy as I thought… apparently they might need to be repotted…
snow fell off and on during the day in those big huge flakes again… so peaceful…
when I got home I took a few pictures of snowflakes on the mailbox…
but I didn’t take any with the camera… too lazy to dig it out so just used the iPhone…
opened up the sliding door for the first time in months so I could get a shot of the snow on the chair and table on the deck…
really enjoying the longer light each day…
final picture of the day was of the skyline as the sun was going down…
the extra light certainly brightens my day…
20 Wednesday Jan 2016
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big girl pants, bunny, diamonds, gentle, snowflakes, sparkly, winter
last night as I went past the window on my way downstairs I spotted the bunny making a trip through the garden…
it was too dark to get a picture so I just stood still and watched… hopped and stopped and hopped some more… at one point it stood up on its hind legs to have a good look around… such fun to watch… then it hopped out of the yard…
tonight, as I drove home huge snowflakes were gently falling… it was so beautiful…
just looked outside and spotted the diamonds in the snow, sparkling like crazy…
winter can be filled with such stunning beauty when you take the time to see it…
07 Monday Dec 2015
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big girl pants, change, cleaners, leftovers, open, Shadow, snowflakes, women
had to make two trips out to the car this morning so that I could get everything changed over and in the proper places… now the trunk has the grocery boxes and bags as well as the safety equipment, and the glove compartment contains the registration and maps, and most importantly, there is change available for grocery carts, lol…
Shadow looked pretty good in the parking spot at work…
tonight when I arrived home and came out of the garage I saw this…
the back door was open…
the cleaners had been in the morning and likely took out garbage, but I was a bit nervous to enter… what if someone had actually broken in… yikes…
I called the owner of the business as I went into the house and she stayed on the line while I walked through all three floors to be sure there was no one besides me there…
luckily it was a warm day so nothing froze… basement was fairly cool, though…
had a visit with my amazing friends, and treats…
these are the leftovers that I am going to have to eat over the next little while… yum… only had a small handful of nuts and bolts and stopped at two shortbread cookies…
got a lovely picture of snowflakes on my way up the stairs…
21 Sunday Apr 2013
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started out overcast…
slept off and on through the night sitting in the lounger that I bought yesterday… so spent a good portion of the morning and early afternoon watching tv and dozing in the chair… the good news is that it has helped my back…
very large snowflakes came down…
was thinking about having a hot tub around 8 am but then huge snowflakes started to come down and more and more came down for a long time… about 3 it stopped and the sun came out…
deck covered AGAIN… although it did melt late in the afternoon…
went grocery shopping and came home to make dinner for the kids…
since then I have been watching the JUNOs in the lounger which Jeff took upstairs for me…
looking forward to a better sleep tonight and hopefully my back with be feeling much better tomorrow…
