11 Wednesday Oct 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
early mornings when the sky is just starting to lighten…
sure sign that Fall has arrived when leaving for work a bit early and it is still dark…
the moon was very bright over the neighbour’s tree…
I like how the house looks warm and inviting…
29 Friday Sep 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
appointment, big girl pants, bruise, photos, pressure, sky, sunrise, trees, walk, widow
had some fun with my photos this morning…
needed to get my blood work done for my next doctor’s appointment and took a few pictures of the sunrise as I parked the car…
I always park a good distance from wherever I am going and then get some extra walking in so there is less pressure to get enough exercise…
spotted this lovely tree changing colour as I walked along…
the walk to and from the clinic was very nice on this beautiful day…
the final reminder of my day was this bruise from the blood work…
the technicians suggest that the longer you keep pressure on the spot where the needle was inserted, the smaller the bruise will be…
27 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
yesterday morning I had a bit of fun taking pictures of the sun rising in the sky…
this is what it looked like at 7:24 as the sun was just peeking out through the trees…
then this as 7:49…
this was the last of the series that I took, at 9:09…
so beautiful and such a change when you look out the window at different times…
it was out for most of the day and even though it was cold and windy it felt great…
that bit of extra light and bright sky makes such a difference in my mood…
17 Friday Feb 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
the sky was absolutely stunning this morning on my drive to work… from the moment I turned east until I turned into the parking lot it kept changing…
from pink and gold to blue and mauve the entire time… didn’t have a good spot anywhere along the way to take a picture and I don’t think I could have taken one that would show the actual beauty…
it was a lovely start to Friday…
I’ve been giggling since I got home and discovered that the reason the love sign in the window hasn’t looked right is the fact that the o was backwards…
was a great chuckle for me and a good start to the long weekend…
30 Monday Jan 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
apparently yesterday was quite full…
started in the morning with a lovely sunrise…
wonderful to have the sunshine… a bit later I noticed the sun lighting up the waterfall…
picked up some cushions on sale while I was out grocery shopping…
while the kids were here for dinner they scraped down a large section of the kitchen ceiling where the paint had been peeling… what a mess it made, lol… but now I won’t have to worry about it falling on my head…
and finally last evening the lights all came on at the correct time and went off when they were supposed to…
lots happened and it was all fun…
15 Sunday Jan 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
sunrise…
and sunset…
today…
what a great day…
sunshine all day long today and yesterday, and it wasn’t freezing cold either…
went grocery shopping with my daughter and picked up some beautiful flowers…
they make me feel happy…
and I cannot believe it but the never ending orchid has a new bud on it;-)…
22 Thursday Dec 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, carols, chocolate shop, Decadence Chocolate, friends, house sit, husband, Stella's Bakery, sunrise, treat, widow, witness, wrapping
full day of fun…
up just in time to witness the beautiful sunrise…
we had smoothies to start our day… hers had fruit in it to sweeten it up a bit…
my daughter headed out with friends for the day…
and I finished off the wrapping as the carols pumped out of the iPod…
all done and packed up ready to go…
we met up in the afternoon and visited a local chocolate shop and a bakery…
picked up her husband when he landed and had a tasty treat…
they have headed off to house sit and I am relaxing in front of the box…
now for a quiet evening…
09 Wednesday Nov 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, bouquet, flowers, happy, moments, remarkable, sunrise, treat, widow
got a beautiful bouquet today…
flowers make me happy;-)… a lovely treat and I spent some time admiring them…
they kind of matched the sunrise today…
been lots of pinks and reds in the sky over the last while…
the weather was amazing and we ate our lunch in the Millennium Library Park… lots of folks walking through, but we were the only ones having lunch… the sun was warm on our backs, but when the wind blew it was a bit cool, lol…
quite remarkable to be outside eating lunch on November 9…
26 Wednesday Oct 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
for the last few weeks I have been feeling down…
missing my beloved a lot… usually when I am struggling with missing him I can spot the triggers… a date… a particular activity…
can’t put my finger on anything in particular right now… and I think that makes it worse…
this morning it was dark when I left for work… and when I checked online it showed the sun rose at 8:09 am and set at 6:15 pm…
so it really is getting darker all the time, sigh… light affects me a lot, or lack of it…
and of course the overcast skies and rain don’t help much either…
find that I sleep more as it gets darker… maybe I want to hibernate, lol…
have been taking vitamin D for the last few weeks and think I need to start using my SAD light on a regular basis…
light and shadow on a lisianthus in the English Garden
21 Friday Oct 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
beautiful, big girl pants, breathtaking, carpool, rain, seagulls, sky, sunrise, widow
the sky has been phenomenal lately…
this morning it was breathtaking again…
the right side looking out the upstairs stairwell window…
the left side right after that…
as I stepped out of the house heading to the garage…
at a stoplight driving downtown…
the seagulls were everywhere this morning… I’ve heard that if you see a bunch of them it is going to rain… and it did rain a number of times throughout the day… happily every time I was out, the sky had just cleared up from one of the downpours, lol…
miss carpooling because, as a passenger, I could always get pictures along the way when I saw something special… now, it is rare when I have the chance to take a photo…
herbiggirlpants 