macarons…

17 Monday Oct 2022

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today, my BS group gathered in the living room…

we’ve been meeting in the garden but it was only going to 2 degrees Celsius so we decided it was time to come inside…

one person joined via Zoom and had dropped off a lovely treat for us beforehand… boob (for breast cancer awareness month) and regular macarons from Jenna Rae Cakes…

I left the front and back doors open to move fresh air… everyone wore masks until we were all seated…

it was the first time we’ve met in the house since the pandemic began…

felt lovely and odd at the same time, lol…

soon we will all have had the fifth shot which will make us feel a bit more confident about being in a closed space together…

so happy to be getting back to more ‘normal’ times…

sound…

12 Wednesday Oct 2022

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the other day, my Merlin sound app found many different birds inside an hour and a half… even though I didn’t see them all…

what a treat to have confirmation of some of the little birds flitting about the garden…

we are clearly in the middle of migration season…

bounty…

17 Saturday Sep 2022

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had a delicious supper on Tuesday…

visited the Wolseley Farmers Market and got some lovely items…

flowers; a beautiful pork chop; green, yellow, and purple beans; garlic; small new potatoes; little eggplants; free range eggs; an acorn squash; and a cob of corn…

cooked up, cooled and reheated the potatoes… then warmed up some chicken wings from the night before and boiled some of the beans…

yum…

looking forward to more delicious meals from this bounty…

bud…

13 Tuesday Sep 2022

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so excited last Wednesday to discover a water lily bud… I had pretty much given up hope of seeing one this year…

throughout the day I took photos as it worked towards opening…

it was at its peak on Saturday…

today it is getting ready to slide under the water… as the next bud begins to open…

what a wonderful treat as we move into cooler weather…

talk about blessed…

hummingbird…

03 Saturday Sep 2022

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had the most five or six delightful minutes in the garden this afternoon;-)…

I was eating the last delicious bits of yesterday’s Blizzard on the back deck and spotted a hummingbird in the garden…

for a long time we had feeders, but no hummingbirds, so we gave up… a few have flown through over the years, but none stayed around to snack…

it moved around slurping from the petunias which are everywhere in the space this year… from the six planters around the deck, to the morning glories in the dahlia planter in the centre of the yard, to the baskets hanging along the neighbour’s garage… and back again…

my camera was close by, but I just enjoyed the moment…

I’m fairly sure it was a female ruby-throated hummingbird…

how blessed that I was sitting in that spot and looked up at that exact moment…

stroll…

24 Wednesday Aug 2022

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on Monday morning we went to the Park Café for breakfast with my BS buddies and then took a stroll around the English and Leo Mol Gardens…

my son-in-law and I walked over and met the rest of the group inside the restaurant… it was wonderful to finally get there, as it had been a long time… breakfast was tasty and my favourite server mentioned how she had missed seeing me😊…

it was the first time I’ve been back in the Gardens for at least a few years and they were full of colour and blooms…