26 Wednesday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, garden, moments, nature, photos, pond, third, water lilies, widow
spent a good portion of the last few days in the garden watching the most recent water lily flower open… this is the third one so far this season;-)…
so relaxing to watch the slow opening and the fish swimming around and about…
20 Tuesday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, draw, English Garden, garden, Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, lilies, pond, water, water lilies, widow
spent a lot of time with the water lilies in the Gardens… went from one to another, viewing and taking pictures… many of them had tiny frogs sitting on the lily pads…
water has always been important to me and it always draws me in…
wasn’t sure that the two lilies in my pond were going to have flowers, but I remained hopeful…
and this morning I spotted a bud;-)… woo hoo… excited to see the flower…
01 Monday Jul 2019
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banned, blessed, fun, garden, goldfish, grandson, memories, Parrot, parrot feather, pond, shubunkins, time, water hyacinth, water lettuce, water lilies
my grandson and I went out for sushi and then we picked up some goldfish and shubunkins for the pond, and a few more pond plants…
the crazy thing is that the Manitoba government has banned floating water hyacinth and water lettuce after deciding they are invasive plants… and in the Amazon and southern USA, they are… but here they cannot survive the winter, even in the house… very frustrating as these plants really provide protection for baby fish in the pond… and help with slowing algae growth, sigh…
anyway, we put a few water lilies in and some parrot feather so hopefully the little fish will use those and be safe from the big fish until they grow a bit more;-)…
once he got all the fish into the pond, he worked to make sure the plants won’t fall over and the pots aren’t visible…
looks great and I think the fish are happy…
really enjoy spending time with him…
04 Tuesday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, butterflies, dragonflies, garden, insecta, monarch, pond, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, water lilies, widow
I’ve noticed quite a few dragonflies flitting around the garden recently…
on Sunday, when I was taking pictures of the water lilies in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, I caught a dragonfly on the lily pad…
and yesterday I spent a short time in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… it was sunny so the butterflies that were there were very active…
there weren’t many there but I got a few pictures…
butterflies and dragonflies are part of the family of insecta…
I might have a small collection of memorabilia, but no actual butterflies or dragonflies…
hoping for some monarchs in the garden…
02 Sunday Jul 2017
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, English Garden, exercise, fish, flowers, garbage, garden, littering, moments, pond, water lilies, widow
was a bit behind this morning but eventually headed over to the Park for my weekend visit…
spotted this flag on the sandbar in the river by the walking bridge to the Park…
there were likely thousands of people in the Park last night for the fireworks and during the day for all the Canada Day activities and they hadn’t yet got it cleaned up… garbage bags were piled around the garbage cans but there was also lots of trash along the paths… I should have taken a bag and collected as I walked because I am a bit crazy about not littering, just ask my kids, lol…
happy to see water lily flowers in the Arbour Pond…
the main lily pond is not doing nearly as well… only spotted one bud where usually by now there would be dozens of blooms…
once I got home I spent a few minutes admiring the clematis… it has exploded…
finally spent some time in the garden reading and watching the fish in the pond…
12 Friday Aug 2016
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big girl pants, bunnies, crowds, English Garden, Leo Mol, Lyric Theatre, people, water lilies, widow
today, if I’ve seen one bunny, I’ve seen twenty-five…
this was the first one on my first walk to the Park…
saw at least two more on the way and then spotted this one in the English Garden…
there were crowds of squirrels as well…
on my way home spotted this one and its partner…
at nine in the morning the Lyric Theatre looked like this…
at nine at night it looked like this…
and that doesn’t show the other two-thirds of the people that crowded in behind us…
in the Leo Mol Garden, early, there were a handful of people and the water lilies were still closed…
bit early for them to bloom…
but by five pm they were all open…
and the Gardens were jam packed with Pokemon Go players…
what a difference ten hours can make…
28 Thursday Apr 2016
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big girl pants, bills, cash, credit card, exchange, MoMA, Monet, money, pond, taxes, water lilies, widow
seems like there have been a lot of bills that need to be paid lately…
one from the accounting folk who did my taxes… a big one for the taxes… thought we had it figured out and had the right amount being withheld to cover the taxes… not so much… maybe next year…
got my credit card statement and was surprised a bit by how much the exchange turned out to be on purchases in New York…
spoke with the new cleaning people today and the good news is that I shouldn’t have to give them any more money until August… looking forward to seeing how the house will look when they are done…
have also had the other type of bills – money…
still have some American cash… haven’t quite decided what to do with it… maybe I should plan another trip over the border, lol…
always have some money in my purse because I don’t want to be caught without any cash on me if I need it…
received a postcard with Monet water lilies on it which we stood and admired in MoMA…
I love water lilies… looking forward to seeing some in the pond this summer…
17 Sunday Apr 2016
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big girl pants, Brooklyn Bridge, cruise, Liberty, Monet, NYC, rose window, Seaglass, water, water lilies, widow
started the day with a carousel ride in some cool fish at Seaglass… followed by a cruise on one of the rivers, a view of the Statue of Liberty, a visit with Monet’s water lilies, a wander through St. John the Divine, and an evening ride on the water…
the cool fish in the carousel…
selfie with the Brooklyn Bridge… the other girls were taking lots of pictures with the Statue of Liberty…
me and the water lilies…
purple flowers, water and a giant rose… what more could a person ask for… ate lunch in the Cafe in MoMA before meeting the other girls and we headed off to the cathedral…
beautiful rose windows… reminded me of the lovely one in Bryce Hall…
seemed like it was a water themed day…
busy, busy…
13 Monday Jul 2015
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barn swallows, big girl pants, garden, gardeners, hot, orange, water lilies
was another hot day… got up and was out of the house before 8 to go for a walk… didn’t want to be out there when it got really hot…
crossing over the bridge got a few shots of the barn swallows... in Ottawa they have just built houses for their barn swallows where they were doing some work on a bridge… apparently they are endangered there… not here, lol…
the English Garden had very few visitors but was filled with gardeners… they were working in every area… looks beautiful…
usually I am drawn to the purple/blue flowers but today I kept leaning toward the orange ones…
my friend loved that colour…
can’t even guess how many pictures I have taken of the water lilies in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden… hundreds for sure… the tropical lilies are just starting to bloom…
got home, welcomed a new cleaning crew and went into the garden to be out of their way… mowed and whipper-snipped the back yard… did some weeding and watering… was dancing around on the deck and in the garden because the ground was soooo hot…
finally got to sit down in the shade… nice…
beautiful hot summer day… really enjoying my Mondays off…
31 Saturday Jan 2015
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had a wonderful day with a friend who came over and hung 15 framed water lily pictures on the stairway wall… we had a great time…
makes me a bit proud to have my art up on a wall… a bit odd to think of my photos as art, lol…
part way through the process we had a lovely snack/lunch…
happily there was no broken glass… a few close calls when the frames were on the hallway floor, lol…
but we realized that we needed more pictures… I have to find thirteen more photos and we have to pick up more frames…
we have already put in the nails so that piece is done… going to get sticky stuff to make sure the pictures stay square on the wall…
we also got the orchid to sit in the pot better… it was a bit tippy…
after she left I had a good nap… silly me, woke up at 7:15 this morning and didn’t go back to sleep…
it’s very cold outside so I have a yoga jacket on to stay comfy, rather than turning up the heat and being too hot at bedtime… I have always liked it to be cool in the bedroom and have the windows open at night… used to make George crazy…
there’s one good thing about being on my own, no one complains when I leave a window open, lol…
damn big girl pants…
