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17 Monday Sep 2018

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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…

canopy…

12 Wednesday Sep 2018

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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…

forest…

01 Wednesday Aug 2018

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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…

Ottawa Outing Day 5…

23 Monday Apr 2018

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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…

caramel…

10 Saturday Mar 2018

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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…

serendipitous…

09 Friday Mar 2018

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took this picture of the trees out the back before I left the house…

reminded me of a colleague who we lost to cancer a few years ago… she and I had taken a photography course together and the picture was similar to one that I took at that time as part of our homework…

later in the day I was working on a computer and came across her name…

seemed rather serendipitous…

she had a wonderful artistic streak and a great eye… we worked well together and she taught me a lot… one of my favourite things was how she showed me to add a URL into a Facebook post and then delete the URL once the link had opened up so that the post looked cleaner… a little thing but it makes a huge difference…

a very special woman…

urge…

31 Sunday Dec 2017

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had the urge to get a few unfinished jobs completed, so while my son-in-law was here we tacked a couple of them…

last night I printed a number of pictures to put in a frame that I’d picked up a while ago and hadn’t been able to decide on what should go in it… I’d been waiting for the professional photos that we had taken in October… but once I started choosing I ended up with pictures that I, or the kids, had taken… it was fun because my son-in-law had got the wifi printer working perfectly so that I could print right from my phone… I do love technology, lol… unfortunately I stayed up very late to finish the job…

so this morning I hung the frame up… yay me, although consensus has it that it might need to come down a bit on the wall…

then he helped un-decorate the two small trees, box them up and put them away in the basement… looks way more roomy in the living room now… left everything else up for New Year’s dinner tomorrow…

I’ve had an IKEA drawer for ages that needed to be put together and installed so he also did that… took a few minutes to decide where it would actually fit…

it is going to make getting the pots out a lot simpler, although it has to be held open or else it slides shut on its own… apparently the kitchen cupboards might not be perfectly level…

and finally this evening I emptied out a drawer that was filled with expired crackers and cereal, lol…

I feel very accomplished;-)…

drive…

26 Tuesday Dec 2017

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been thinking of my beloved a lot over the last few weeks…

recently took a drive through the Park and was remembering all the drives we had taken through it… we often enjoyed going to the Park Cafe for breakfast on a weekend morning and then taking a drive around the Park so that I could get some photos…

we particularly liked it when there was hoarfrost covering the trees… haven’t seen any this year but as I drove through it was overcast and a bit dull, which was a reminder…

he would have been interested in the construction going on for the new project… he would have explaine all that was happening and whether he thought they were doing it correctly, lol… he always knew what every piece of equipment was used for…

took these shots as I circled around…

it really is a beautiful place for a walk or a drive…

stairs…

12 Tuesday Dec 2017

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last night, as I was going down the stairs, I thought of my beloved… he loved Christmas but sometimes the decorations got the better of him…

he really disliked the various collections that would end up on the stairs…

following his heart surgery, where they took veins from his leg, he wasn’t as steady as he used to be… if you were walking and came upon him from behind you might think he was tipsy because of his gait…

walking was difficult and he only had one speed that worked for him…

so stuff on the stairs could cause him to lose his balance… but that didn’t stop me from decorating, lol…

here’s how the stairs to the second floor look this year… snow people and trees;-)…

he did enjoy shopping and always found many things for me… I miss that…