07 Wednesday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, hoarfrost, moments, nature, nonetheless, rime, trees, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk the other morning and admired the gorgeous trees…
I’m not sure if it was hoarfrost, or rime, or something else, but it was beautiful…
the ones on my street were lovely;-)…
this one was clearly snow but beautiful nonetheless;-)…
and this morning there was more beauty…
28 Friday Nov 2025
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Advent boxes, big girl pants, blessed, books, Christmas, den, library, moments, naked, trees, widow
the book stair library has been moved into the den in anticipation of trees and advent boxes…
I will just have to remember where they are when I finish my current book, lol…
right now the stairs look a bit naked…
05 Monday May 2025
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as I was sitting on the deck this afternoon, the leaves were budding…
I thought it had been happening last week, but then it stopped…
today the temperature rose so high it must have caused them to burst open and it felt like it was raining…
took this photo of the chair cushion before it got really covered… I had to put my drink into a thermos bottle because my glass kept getting bits dropped into it, lol…
24 Thursday Apr 2025
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, blown over, cut, garden, moments, nature, pergola, plants, shocked, trees, weather, widow
on a recent walk to the Park and around the gardens I was rather shocked to see how many trees had been removed throughout the forest between the walking bridge and the gardens as well as in the gardens…
there were still trees that had fallen or been blown over…
and it appeared that the pergola in the Leo Mol pond area had been completely rebuilt or else it had been sandblasted…
lots of changes since I was there in the Fall;-)…
13 Sunday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, flora, flowers, koi, Mediterranean, moments, nature, plants, pond, solo, The Leaf, trees, tropical, weather, widow
had another solo visit to The Leaf on Friday as I’d read that the flowering trees in the current display area were nearly finished blooming due to the heat…
I was surprised at how many people were there as I expected everyone to be outside enjoying the 17° C gorgeous weather…
as I entered the Tropical Biome I had to stop and wait a minute for the fog to clear from my glasses, lol…
happy to see the tiny flowers on two of the three cacao trees…
everything looked lush amidst the cooling mist that seems to be keeping the flora happy… quite surprised at how much the plants have grown… just last week it was easy to see all the way to the waterfall and now it is blocked again…
fun to watch one of the zoo keepers feeding the koi as I don’t often get to see that;-)…
the Mediterranean Biome had many flowers and the Babs Asper Display area held lots of plants, flowers, small trees, topiaries, and a truck filled with tulips…
the Butterfly Garden was busy with butterflies flitting about happily as they enjoyed the sunlight… the misting machines were also busy adding to the humidity and it felt very warm, lol…
so lucky to have this amazing place to visit;-)…
03 Tuesday Dec 2024
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bedtime, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, decorations, family, health, lights, memories, moments, trees, walk, widow
I’ve been enjoying the trees up the stairs…
wound through them is a string of lights which I would turn on in the morning and off at bedtime…
now I’ve decided to leave them on all the time…
my beloved didn’t like having trees or snow people on the stairs as his walking was uneven and he sometimes stepped on one of the decorations, lol…
so far, I don’t have that problem;-)…
27 Wednesday Nov 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, family, handmade, holidays, lights, memories, moments, remembering, stairway, string, trees, widow
the trees made their way up the stairs…
a string of lights went up first and then each tree was removed from the box…
once they were all out, I had a fun time deciding where each one would go and then adding the smaller ones to every step…
I am always happy to add the various wooden ones that my beloved made;-)…
there are a couple left that will find their way into other rooms to bring holiday cheer;-)…
12 Tuesday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, lights, moments, nature, nearly, snowflake, solar, Technology, tree, trees, weather, widow
Friday afternoon I took out the solar small Christmas tree lights and put them into one of the flower pots…
wanted to be sure the pics would be able to go into the nearly frozen soil…
I also filled the snowflake with solar mini lights…
they came out very nicely…
27 Thursday Jun 2024
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not too long ago (well, it was mid-April) I watched a crew take down one of elms up the street…
in the Fall they had taken another one down close by…
last week Hydro came and marked gas lines and left yellow flags in front of two houses next to me…
this morning I watched as a number of pieces of equipment came by… the first dug two holes on the boulevard and went away… a little while later another few trucks came and planted a tree in each of the holes… then a protective barrier went around the bottom of each of them…
it will be interesting to see if they will come and water them until they get established…
not quite sure what type of tree they are but very happy that the elms have been replaced;-)…
11 Saturday May 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cushions, deck, elm seeds, garden, leaves, moments, nature, pond, thermos, trees, weather, widow
for the last little while the outer shell of the buds on the elm trees have been coming down…
then, when I looked outside on Friday, the ground and decks were covered with elm seeds…
after I put out the cushions and went to sit down, they were already covered, lol…
used a thermos for my drink to keep the seeds out…
spent time with the net to collect as much of the debris as possible from the pond… filled two nets, lol…
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