13 Wednesday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, blooming, flowers, hoarfrost, house, lovely, Spring, trees, turning, under, weather, widow
what a lovely start to the day, particularly as I was feeling a bit under the weather…
Spring flowers are blooming… even if they are in the house…
hoarfrost on the trees and I got a few pictures…
the weather is turning;-)…
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…
02 Friday Nov 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, drive, hand, hoarfrost, holding hands, memories, Park, remembering, trees, widow
found this photo on Facebook… happy that I get these reminders of wonderful memories…
it is from ten years ago and is one of the few pictures that I have of my beloved and I holding hands… it is lovely to see him and such a great reminder of a fun day…
one of the things I miss is having his hand to hold when out and about…
the beautiful trees after the snow this morning were another reminder…
brought back memories of the day before he died when we drove all around the Park so that I could get pictures of the trees covered in hoarfrost…
17 Wednesday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, Fall, garden, leaves, parking lot, piles, trees, weather, widow
a few days ago when I was heading home from work I stopped and took some pictures of the piles of leaves in the parking lot…
as I walked through the backyard I took some shots of the leaves there too…
I haven’t been enjoying this Fall because it hasn’t been very Fall-like, sigh…
cold, snowy, overcast… what a drag…
but the leaves are incredible… even if they are all on the ground…
07 Sunday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, Buzz, Cirque du Soleil, corned beef hash, CTV Winnipeg Morning Show, family, Kraft dinner, lunch, popcorn, tickets, trees, widow, won
last week I won two tickets from the CTV Morning show to see Cirque du Soleil Crystal…
was very excited as I don’t often win things… picked them up and then checked to see if my daughter would like to go with me…
today we met for lunch at Brown’s Social House before the performance…
she ordered their corned beef hash… our neighbour, Buzz, made the world’s best hash and she has tried it many places but never found one as good as what he made… she’s pretty much given up trying but thought she’d give it one last shot…
we also talked about how Ellen, his wife, made the best Kraft Dinner… when I would make it they would always comment it was not as good as Auntie Ellen’s, lol…
the hash wasn’t bad, but not up to the Buzz standard…
we walked back to the car to leave the second half of my fish and chips before heading into BellMTS Place… had to save room for popcorn during the show…
loved the trees in the opening sequence…
it was interesting to watch the ushers ensure that no one was taking videos during the performance…
17 Monday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, branches, leaves, moments, street, summer, trees, virginia creeper, weather, widow
looking forward to spending the evening with my BS buddies… we haven’t met too often over the summer…
ah, the summer… took this picture yesterday as I was coming home from the grocery store…
many branches on the trees are bare… and the street is covered with leaves… when I took the picture I was focusing on the leaves on the street… only discovered the bare branches when I was preparing the picture… yikes…
and the Virginia creeper is moving into its fall stage…
not only is it changing colour… something is enjoying it as a snack!
must continue to take the time to focus on special moments because time is whizzing by…
12 Wednesday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, canopy, colour, construction, photos, street, trees, widow
was able to pull over and take this photo this morning as I was going down the next street…
big construction on the street that I usually travel to get to work and I keep forgetting to turn north out of the driveway, lol…
the trees are lovely even as they change colour…
the canopy on this street doesn’t meet up in the middle as much as some of the other streets… still beautiful…
always trying to get a shot of one of these streets without cars, lol…
01 Wednesday Aug 2018
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anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Cathedral Grove, forest, George, memories, moments, nature, peaceful, sound, trees, vacation, widow
been thinking of forests a lot lately…
after being in Cathedral Grove, BC, it has felt like we don’t really have many forests around here…
but when I walk through the forest in the Park I remember how special and rejuvenating trees are… it always seems extra peaceful and other sounds are blocked out…
took this shot looking up through the tree in the Leo Mol Garden… can never remember what the name of this particular tree is, although it is one of my favourites…
this photo is from July 2011 in Cathedral Grove…
we had a memorable time while visiting Courtenay and surrounds… it was a very special time and it was our last anniversary…
23 Monday Apr 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, Conservatory, family, flowers, fun, garden, grandson, heron, moments, museum, Ottawa, Ottawa Outing, sunshine, taxi, trees, walk, widow
our plan was to go to the newly opened Science and Technology Museum today as my daughter had to work and it is within walking distance…
this morning, when I checked their hours, I discovered they weren’t open on Mondays, apparently like many of the museums…
eventually we decided to go the Central Experimental Farm… very round about taxi ride finally got us there and we had great fun checking out the animals, especially the sheep…
the babies were very cute…
we visited the other exhibits and had the snack that we’d packed in the backpack…
we then walked over to the conservatory through a big field where we came across this giant tree that was planted 107 years ago…
the conservatory was tiny but had a few flowers blooming…
then we walked to Dow’s Place where we called a taxi and spotted a heron while we were waiting… we saw some cute flowers as we walked…
when we got home computer games and napping took place…
out for burgers on our last evening here…
home for a movie before bed…
10 Saturday Mar 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, caramel, cedar, dark chocolate, Olympics, PTE, trees, widow
spent some time this morning watching the Olympics… although there was hockey on for part of the time…
then it was off to PTE to see How the Heavens Go… on the way we stopped at Morden’s and I picked up a salted caramel dark chocolate, along with a few other items… the milk chocolate version was one of George’s favourites… it was six years ago today that we laid him to rest…
had also brought a few shortbread cookies that my friend had made for me after Christmas, which are in the freezer so I can have a treat now and then…
as I walked up the street on the way home, I had to stop and take this picture… the tree is so pretty even though it was gray out…
there are still many trees covered in snow… a number of my cedars have bent over branches and I am hopeful that they will recover…
