15 Saturday Dec 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, Christmas, joyeux, parcels, productive, snowflakes, widow, wrapping
had a quiet, but productive day…
watched some tv, did laundry and wrapped all but one Christmas present… will do the final one tomorrow…
very happy with the wrapping paper… one side is covered in snowflakes and the other with the words Merry Christmas and Joyeux Noel…
it is nice and thick, which always makes wrapping easier…
missing my beloved as I work through the preparations for Christmas…
02 Sunday Dec 2018
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angels, beloved, big girl pants, Christmas, decorating, friends, glitter, lustre, ornaments, purple, reindeer, santas, silver, snow people, snowflakes, trees, widow
for the last few years a dear friend has come over to help me with the Christmas decorating…
I’ve always loved Christmas but since the loss of my beloved it has lost a bit of its lustre…
this year I’ve been working away on my own to decorate… I decided to try some different options… took me a few weeks but it is done now…
have put my tree collection in the dining room where my pottery usually lives… and even passed along some pieces, yay for me;-)…
put up a new tree with purple and silver decorations and hung up the glass balls on either side of the picture above the sofa…
put the snow people up the stairs…
got a garland going along the ledge in the dining room… final piece was to put the glittery trees on the fish tank…
still might have my friend come by to check it all out…
then going to go through the rest of the Christmas boxes and maybe pass some decorations along to others…
there are the reindeer, the snowflakes, the nativities, the angels, the santas…
27 Tuesday Nov 2018
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big girl pants, camera, family, gently, memories, moments, photos, snowflakes, walk, widow
we haven’t had much snow so far… on Sunday I walked over to meet my family for breakfast…
snow was gently falling and it was beautiful…
stopped along the way and took this shot of snow on a truck which was right by the sidewalk…
then I got my camera out and took some snowflake pictures… enjoyed the chance to spend some time playing with the camera…
reminded me of all the times that my beloved and I would go places so that I could take pictures… I sure do miss him…
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…
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