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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

 

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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…

excellent…

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

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had an excellent day yesterday…

early in the morning got this great shot of the garage roof which glittered with a thin blanket of fresh snow…


took a few pictures of the buds on the Japanese Maple, which is a sure sign of Spring for me…

  
then it was off to help with the set up for a special event…

a good friend picked me up and we went to Peasant Cookery for a lovely early birthday lunch… delightful…

from there we stopped at UN Luggage where I found a rain jacket… my current one is on the large size and I heard that I should have one in New York…

  

bit of a colour departure for me but the magenta leans towards purple, lol…

our last stop was a walk through the Gardens at Assiniboine Park… it was a gorgeous day…

  

this goose seemed to be looking for the water, lol…

spent some time playing with my Olympus camera as my Nikon is still at the hospital…

rather pleased with this shot…

  

  

Easter…

27 Sunday Mar 2016

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woke up to a phone call from my grandkids wishing me a Happy Easter at 7:30 in the morning, lol… they were very excited to share all about the treats they discovered around their house…

then I went downstairs and on the way spotted the bunny outside…

  

must have just been getting home from all those deliveries…
 
last night I decorated the living room… even put some tulips into the bathroom…
  

flowers make me happy… finished the dining room and set the table for dinner… 

had picked up pencil crayons, colouring books and a few reading books for the boys which I put into the glass drawers in the living room table, along with more of the cute chocolate bunnies from the fundraiser…

  
amazingly, while I was sleeping, the Easter Bunny put mini eggs all over the table and elsewhere on the main floor…

missing my beloved… he had a great connection with the Easter Bunny and the two of them always made sure to find good hiding places for treats…

had a very quiet day as my throat has been sore for a while and I’m trying to rest up and get rid of it… lots of people have been struggling with miserable colds/flu…

kids came, searched and found all of the eggs… we had a lovely lamb roast for our dinner… didn’t realize that daddy wasn’t fond of lamb… oops… maybe that’s why we haven’t had it before… next year we’ll have ham, lol…

  
bit of trouble getting a good photo and some were wondering when they could actually eat… 

after dinner my son-in-law went off to work and the rest of the family headed home…

I am climbing into bed…

creation…

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

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seemed like I was surrounded by creation today… some days it just jumps out at me…

on my way out to the car this morning stopped to take a picture of these bunny tracks…

  
came right up the steps to the front door…

at the office took some pictures of the tulips that arrived yesterday as part of a Lung Association fundraiser…

  
one of my colleagues really wanted a shot of the black centre ..

here’s a picture of my purple ones with a colleague seen through them…

  
just love flowers… how wonderful it is to see them all around the office…

as I walked up the driveway tonight I stopped to take this picture of the squirrel tracks…  

  

and I enjoyed this creation in the afternoon… jumped off the shelf when I was picking up milk for the office…

  
oh my… unfortunate about the 270 calories for 5 chips… only ate 3… considered just having these for supper but eventually thought better of it, lol…

cancer…

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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tonight my son-in-law and I went to the Cancer Survivors Park… 

I didn’t know where we were going until we got there…

  
it is small and very peaceFULL with lots of green living things and inspirational words for those walking around the space…

  
the husband of the couple who built the park overcame lung cancer…

it feels like a great place to get some exercise and see that it is possible to survive…

  
there were some giant tulips…

   
many places to sit and contemplate…

 

reminded me of my bout with the disease and how truly blessed I was that it was caught and dealt with so quickly…

not so easy for many others I know…

what a gift to have the opportunity to spend a few moments in this incredible location…

 

me walking through one of the many hoops needed to make it through the physical and emotional challenges… 

thanks kids for thinking this would be a good place to visit…

walking…

01 Monday Jun 2015

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this morning I took myself to the “A” for breakfast … this is about the fourth time that I have eaten out on my own, so I was feeling rather proud and certainly had those big girl pants on…

walked over to the Park and wandered around the English Garden and the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden…

took a lot of pictures… here are a few…

  
the path in the forest… not exactly like Cathedral Grove…

   
 

thousands of tulips… the main reason I wanted to get over there… didn’t want to miss them…

  
a couple of guys were taping a TV show about the city while I was sitting on my favourite bench…

  
moms with babies were doing some boot camp training beside the Duck Pond… and I got a few shots of ducks and geese…

   
 

spent some time under a canopy of lilacs… I do love the smell and the blossoms… they draw me like a  magnet…

   
   

there was a bit of wind and it was cool, but nice weather for walking…

   

the datura and rose standards were in place and starting to bloom… quite a change from my last visit when the gardens were basically bare…

 wonderful day with a spectacular sky to top it off…

solar…

28 Saturday Feb 2015

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last night at 11:30 I took this picture out the window…

the dragonfly mobile was lit up… it works on solar power so I am very excited at this example that the sun is getting stronger every day… woo hoo…

had a quiet day… got a few jobs done around the house… watched some tv and had a nap…

brought home my tulips… the white ones are a bit sad about the whole travelling in the cold business… 

probably didn’t help that I left them in the car for fifteen minutes when I ran into Safeway…

lovely sunshine in my eyes when I was watching TV this morning… not even sad that I couldn’t see the show…

bright…

24 Tuesday Feb 2015

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this morning I noticed how bright out it was on my drive to work… yay…

then, part way through the morning the sun came streaming through a colleague’s window and landed on her tulips… just gorgeous…



all of them have perked up since yesterday and look amazing… they have certainly brightened my day…

spent a wonderful few minutes wandering around the office taking pictures… I haven’t had a chance to look the shots over yet, but I had great fun… there were lots of tulips to check out…

flowers do make me happy…  

tulips…

23 Monday Feb 2015

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this morning our delivery of tulips arrived… they are part of the Lung Association campaign…

I love flowers and in the depths of winter really enjoy them… just yesterday I had to toss the daffodils I had purchased the week before…

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some beautiful purple and white ones…

amazing how a little flower can perk me up…

spent time in the living room tonight with my friends and got to admire my gorgeous orchid… it is really stunning…

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took this picture of a macadamia nut dark chocolate which was a treat from Costa Rica… first chocolate I’ve had since November… apparently I was so excited I couldn’t hold still, lol… very tasty…