Thousand Word Thursdays #201

© Rita Jacques 2021 Cardinal in the backyard and cardinal pair in the front yard. They’re staying home with me in lockdown, yay!

Thousand Word Thursdays #201

Garden Angel: “Wake me up when it’s 2021.” Me: “I’m staying up to make sure 2020 leaves!” Happy New Year, everyone!

Thousand Word Thursdays #200

Snow globes are magical. © Rita Jacques 2020 Windsor, Ontario.

Thousand Word Thursdays #200

I’ve been combing Mom’s recipe collection to print out recipes for my two daughters for Christmas. What a surprise to find a recipe Gramma submitted to the local paper and won as Recipe of the Week! Here is the recipe (saved for too many years to remember) complete with spelling errors. Plus, a bonus photo!…

Thousand Word Thursdays #199

A few shots from Chatham! Love these gorgeous trees. Lot is listed for $699, 000–includes a nearby house, too. And whenever I see this beautiful building across the river from where my Mom lives, I think it’d be a great setting for a mental institution in a movie. Or is it a mansion full of…

Thousand Word Thursdays #198

Roses in November! At my Mom’s retirement home–The Village on the Thames–in Chatham, Ontario. © Rita Jacques 2020.

Thousand Word Thursdays #197

Views from the passenger car window! © Rita Jacques 2020. Chatham-Kent, Ontario.

Thousand Word Thursdays #196

Now that’s pushing up daisies! © Rita Jacques 2020. My front yard in Windsor, Ontario.

Thousand Word Thursdays #194

Obedient plants! Still lots of colour in my fall garden. © Rita Jacques. Windsor, Ontario.  

Thousand Word Thursdays #193

Cleome and cosmos. Beauty springing forth from cracks in the patio concrete. Backyard patio. Windsor, Ontario.