Today's Flowers

Here is another one of my favorite flower pictures. I had this on my desktop for a long time.

Enjoy!!!

Creepy Bugs

Nothing but my camera would get me this close to something creepy like this. Its not a good picture because I had visions of it flying right at me off its web or crawling over onto the lens of the camera right at me. Its got a very cool pattern though on its body. I'm going to try again to get a better picture of it tomorrow.

Skywatch Friday

I've been working like crazy this week and have not had one opportunity to even pick up my camera so I have gone back into some of the past pictures I have to get today's skywatch picture. This was taken above the Japanese pagoda and Minter Gardens. I love the look of the sky through trees. It is like a canvas for a painting. And it is ever changing as well.
Hope you enjoy!! Today is my hubby's and my 9th anniversary. Just thought I would mention that here!!!

Happy Birthday Eric!!

Meet my son, Eric. Today is his birthday and he turns 31. I'm sure he won't like me telling you his age. He is my youngest of my two children.

Right now and for the past couple of years he is living in Alberta and working for the Oil Fields. He does a lot of work out of town and comes back to his apt. on his days off, few and far between.

So hard to believe my baby is this old. How old does that make me!! I can still look at him here in this picture and see the stages of his life in a flash from birth to now. The baby with a bunch of dark hair that stuck straight up, and who could make the funniest faces around. He cracked us up. His first day of school, kindergarden standing by the school in his blue hoodie with his bag of peaches for snack. I had such a hard time letting him walk to school by himself. I just did not want to let go too soon. I still stuggle with that now.

I see him next to me at the hospital when my mother and father died. He stayed by my side, my shadow. It was very hard for him to lose his grandparents and he knew how hard it was on me. His graduation day sitting in the Fire Truck coming to the ceremonies. How handsome and how proud was I.

I can't even begin to tell you how much I miss my boy. My young man. I can mark the day when I last saw him, and he may not know it but I think of him every day, wonder where he is and is he safe and mostly is he happy. All I have ever wanted for him was to be happy. To be content, to have a full and wonderful life.

Happy Birthday Eric. I love you more than you know and I miss you more than I could ever say. Take care, stay safe.

Today's Flowers

My daughter's best friend Mandy and her hubby's family own greenhouses that grow all the Gerber Daisies that are distributed to all stores in the mainland.
Gerber's are beautiful flowers and I love the bouquets I get when my daughter comes after being at Mandy's house. It is like bringing in sunshine into the home! I am going out for lunch to Montanna's today with two of my girlfriends. We all have busy lives and don't get together nearly enough to suit all of us. We've known each other for twenty years and have worked together but each of our lives have taken us to different things. We always come back together like the time does not stand in the way though. We catch up on each other and there really is no need for reconnection because really we are always connected.
I'm taking my camera with me and plan on getting some pics to share!!

Skywatch Friday

I thought I would make my skywatch photo a photo of whimsy this week. This photo is looking way up to a beautiful blue sky behind an overhead bridge.
Hope you enjoy!!!

Today's Flower

Wow, two posts in one day but the minute I found out about Today's Flower I just had to contribute!! I'll post more to this site. I love flowers.