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| What a delicious fragrance! |
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| pls ignore date stamp ... i haz a mental block against remembering to change it when i recharge the camera's battery ... |
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| Oh so pretty! |
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| I don't like the smell of lilacs, but the new blossom clusters are such a nice colour! |
Over the weekend, I also found blossomly loveliness in a few other places around and about my own neighbourhood ...
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| This tree (my apartment building is behind) isn't the nicest shaped specimen ... it was run over by a truck two years ago ... poor thing ... but the blossoms are SO PINK! |
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| They look so nice ... a long row of them right down the middle of the street! |
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| These poor beauties are drooping from the effects of an unexpected rain storm ... So was I ... I got caught several blocks away from home and without a sweater or jacket! |
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| I have no idea what this prickly little bush is ... but the blooms are interesting! |
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| Real good crop of these indestructible beauties! (They're going to populate the earth along with cockroaches and earwigs after the nuclear holocaust ...) My Dad used to batter and deep fry the blooms ... yummy! We also ate the new greens in salad ... double yummy! |
Here is the cross-stitch picture of the winged lion I have been working on. Now that I've "de-stressed" myself, I'm finding it hard to focus on this project! I know ... totally weird ... I can focus on counted cross stitch when I'm over-tired and over-stressed, but not when I'm relaxed and healthy!
This past week has been graduation/convocation time for a variety of people in my work and personal life. I was delighted to attend one of the ceremonies at UNBC as "rent-a-mom" for one of this year's graduates. Being back around the academic community makes me wish I was a university student again. Maybe I will be ... I haven't totally abandoned ideas of completing my Master's degree ... but for now, I'm enjoying a non-academic Aromatherapy program (in my spare time).
Do you have a "bucket list"? My list of things I want to do/learn/experience before I die is SO LONG that I'm either going to run out of lifetime or have to live to 120+ to accomplish everything! I think I should retire soon so I can devote more time to my bucket list!
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As usual, this was a very entertaining post, LDF. I am catching up with comments for your last two posts at one time, and hope you'll forgive me for that. I was a little bit concerned when I read about your fish sticks moment. Tired is okay - overtired.. not so much! As to where that "fishy" idea came from, I'm afraid I can't offer a suggestion but perhaps you'll be pleased to know it made for a very entertaining read. So glad the beautiful blossoms around you are giving such pleasure, and I enjoyed learning about and seeing the photo of your shortcut (funny how imagining you choosing your shortcut as you leave for, or arrive home from, work pops into my head every once in a while), but the story of finding bear poop did make me glad you may be exercising a bit of caution as to when you take it. I admire your rent-a-mom activities, and send on my congratulations to the new graduates. As for a bucket list, mine is very vague and it changes quite frequently. Working towards completing a masters is one of the thoughts, along with improving my photography (did join a club), getting involved in volunteer work (have Black Jack set up for a screening with Pets and Friends to see if she would be a good fit for hospital/senior home visits), and seeing something of the world (but the practical aspect of planning finances isn't coming along so quickly). All for now. Hope you have been continuing to catch up a little on rest! Keep us posted.
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