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heart…

16 Sunday Oct 2016

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first thing I saw this morning was this stunning sky…

the colour in this picture is accurate… amazing… brought joy to my heart…

drove to the Formal Gardens at Assiniboine Park to walk and collect poke balls… one side of the garden was filled with parked cars…

there were tons of kids playing everywhere, but it took a while to figure out that an Ultimate tournament was going on… the other side of the Gardens didn’t have any cars, lol…

decided to walk the loop in the opposite direction than I usually do because so many cars were coming into the area…

it was chilly, but not too bad as long as I kept moving… and I had dressed warmly…

as I was taking pictures of the berries on this tree it occurred to me that a dear young friend and her daughters might be somewhere in the Park playing… they were and we found one another and had a visit while the girls played a game… got this shot of geese flying overhead during the game…

she said the sweetest thing when she introduced me to someone… she called me her mom of the heart…

it was a great treat to spend time with her and we stood for an hour or so and I didn’t feel too cold until I left and got back into the car when I realized how cold I was… 

after a few errands it took me quite a while and a few extra blankets to get warm again…

the kids came for dinner and the final surprise was my youngest grandson helping me download and play a new game and giving me a big hug as they were leaving…

day filled with special moments…

Ottawa day 1…

01 Thursday Sep 2016

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early this morning I took this picture of the gorgeous sunrise as I was running up and down the stairs finishing my packing…

my flight was at a very civilized 9:35 am which meant I even had time for a smoothie before I left home…

bags packed and ready to go…


after a good flight, landed in Ottawa and got this shot of a cool sculpture as I was heading toward the baggage carousel… one side was quite boring but this view was gorgeous with the light shining through…
when I got to the bottom of the escalator took a pic of the water wall while waiting for my bag…

was thinking how far I have come over the last number of years… flying is old hat for me now, which is good and bad I guess… and travelling on my own is very manageable… happily took a cab to my daughter’s house and then walked to the mall to pick up a few things for lunch… 

view from my bed for the next few days…

just last week when the boys were over we used the twin of this comforter for their sleepover…

once my daughter arrived home from work we walked down the street and had mani/pedis…

as we made our way home I stopped to get this picture of the gorgeous sunset…

woke up in one province to a beautiful sky and heading to bed in another under the an equally beautiful one…

flowers…

27 Wednesday Apr 2016

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early this morning I got a shot of the sun rising…

 

sunrise

 
loving the mornings… it is light so early now… could hear birds singing… and saw squirrels darting about the garden…

took a few pictures of the tulips I picked up a few days ago and brought to the office…

 

purple tulip

 

tulips

 
they are a lovely colour and have lasted very nicely…

reminded me of a colleague who, on my return from New York, commented that most people who visit NYC post many skyline pictures… but I posted pictures of flowers, lol…

then she said: “which is so you“…

I do love flowers and plants and gardens…

Friday…

11 Friday Mar 2016

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stunning start to the day… caught this glorious sunrise as I headed downstairs this morning…

  
really excited to see water in the pond when I arrived home tonight…  melting like crazy… yay…

happy it is Friday and Monday is my day off…

only one more Monday off, as starting in April I will be working Monday to Thursday every week… hoping the change won’t affect my bottom line too much…

minutes…

10 Wednesday Feb 2016

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lots of special things today…

stunning sunrise as I was getting ready…

  
sure do enjoy these beautiful moments… great start to the day… as I drove out of the driveway I enjoyed the crunch of the tires on the snow… a sure sign that it is really cold…

midway through the morning a package arrived for me and in it were some beautiful glass spoons… happily they were not crunched from the trip…

   
 
another nice treat… ordered two as the lovely one that my friend brought me back from Nova Scotia got broken… now I have a spare…

and on my way home I stopped in at Canadian Tire and had hubcaps put on Shadow’s wheels… just took a few minutes and  they look way prettier than the not so pretty winter tires… a colleague made the suggestion… why didn’t I think of this before…

 

and I think Shadow likes them too…

missed getting a picture of the sunset… saw it as I was driving home, and then got busy in the kitchen… when I went to take a picture, this was all I got, lol…

  
what a difference a few minutes make…

serendipitous…

18 Monday Jan 2016

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took this picture of the beautiful sunrise this morning…

  
am always amazed at how I walk by the window at just the right moment to catch something so lovely… what made me look out this time and not just focus on getting down the stairs… interesting…

had an appointment after lunch so needed to get a few things done in a short amount of time…

stopped in at the credit union and after making the deposit asked about when we could meet with the locksmith to drill out the key to our safety deposit box… it was serendipitous that the locksmith was on the way there for another reason…

I waited a few minutes and when he got there and opened it, we discovered that the box was empty, as I had imagined… we had that box since 1979…

 
was hard to see George’s signature on the document… brought a few tears… never know when things will hit hard…

after a quick grocery shop, I headed to Toyota to have them check the silly remote starter… met up with my sales guy and he took me to the place down the street that did the install… they checked it out and said it was fine… they gave me a lesson in how to use it and I drove away within half an hour… need to wait in one place, double click in another, and turn the key a certain way… will see how it goes, lol…

  
was so pleased with how quickly the visit to the dealership went that I decided to take her for a car wash as she was very dirty…

was a bit nervous about what I had to do when I got there but it was easy… left her at the door…

  
went in and paid, and discovered that the cars don’t stay in the same line they started in, yikes… a nice person helped me figure the system out, I found her and drove away in a lovely clean car…

sunrise…

24 Thursday Dec 2015

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this morning I watched the sun rise from nothing to a gorgeous yellow orb…

  
sun isn’t quite up yet… shortly after that it peeked through the trees…

  
a while later it was much more visible…

  
and the window multiplied the reflection…

  
opened the upstairs window to take this one so there wasn’t any reflection…

  
but it had a cool sun circle around it…

finally took this shot of the gazing ball under a top hat of snow… sun was glittering off it…

  
haven’t had much sun for the last week or so… just revelled in it this morning… makes me feel so much better when it shines…

what a treat…

Shadow…

05 Saturday Dec 2015

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woke up very early and was able to enjoy the sunrise… 

  
caught this out the upstairs window…

took this picture of the car as I was heading out this afternoon…

  
you can see the sun shining on the hood… there is very little snow on the ground and it was plus 4 as I drove away…

then I headed to Birchwood Toyota… signed lots of papers… sorry trees…

  
took a walk in the amazing warm weather… what a treat we have been enjoying…

got a new licence plate…

  
and drove away in my new Corolla…

  
her name is Shadow… she is blue crush metallic in colour and if she is in the shade, she looks kind of purple…

got a call just over a week ago from my car dealer wanting my vehicle… ended up with the 2016 model at thirty dollars less a month… pretty good deal…

after picking her up I ran a few errands and started getting used to her… heating system is a bit fancier and the big splurge was a car starter… not really sure I need that as the car is usually in the garage, but when I’m out it will be nice to start warming up before I get in…

felt a bit sad to leave the old car behind, as I’d only had it for two years, and it was the first car I got on my own…

as I was driving home I thought back to the first new car I drove off the lot…

it was forty-eight years ago and I drove a beautiful Chevelle home that day… I had bought it together with my dad… can remember the fear that I would drive into something or another car would drive into me… didn’t want to get the first scratch on it…

drove that car for over eleven great years…

another big girl pants kind of day… but it was more excitement than anything else today:-)…

velcro…

01 Thursday Oct 2015

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yesterday was filled with lovely messages from my colleagues…

among them came an email with an ezine article from Pauseworks.com…

it talked about how we act like we are covered with teflon when given compliments… we tend to brush them off… 

and we treat negative comments like velcro… letting them stick…

this certainly rang true for me… 

I remember years ago, having performance reviews that were filled with positive comments… but a single, not so positive, one would gnaw at me and I would forget or ignore all the good stuff…

for some time now I have been working hard to accept positive affirmation without putting a but into my response…

yesterday I accepted all of the comments… and soaked them up…

then I added them all to my comments folder in Outlook… great place to pop into and read when a day isn’t going so well…

  
the sunrise this morning was lovely…

  
sunlight on the top of the trees on the other side of the house…

just happened to look out at the exact moments to catch the beauty…

trees…

06 Saturday Dec 2014

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it was beautiful outside today…

got some lovely shots of the sun rising…

caught the red sun at just the right moment...

caught the red sun at just the right moment…

just a few minutes later the colours changed dramatically…

just a few minutes later...

just a few minutes later…

was in the computer room and had to take a picture of the trees outside the window… the hoarfrost was absolutely beautiful…

through the computer room window...

through the computer room window…

heading out to do some shopping, I had to stop the car and get a few pictures of the trees on the street covered in hoarfrost… still have to check how the ones I took with my Nikon came out…

hoarfrost down the street...

hoarfrost down the street…

I was trying to get a shot of the snowflakes on the windshield, but that didn’t work with my phone, lol…

ended the day putting up a small tree in the living room and started putting on the ornaments… this year I am trying to do some of the decorating differently and am having to choose what I will put out and where I will put it which certainly slows down the process…

after all that discovered that the light in the bedroom wasn’t working and changing the bulb didn’t fix it… gave up and will deal with it tomorrow… I did see a lovely table lamp on tv tonight that might look very nice…

there were a lot of trees in my day…