Wednesday, September 28, 2022

I'm stuck at home and I'm lucky I have such a comfortable home but I'd rather take photos of landscapes.  It's such a beautiful time of year and I miss the trees and the fields.

Our living room and dining room.  I bought the large painting years ago from one of my patients who has since died.  I first saw the painting in 2008; it was part of a showing at the Glenrose Hospital when I worked their briefly.  I didn't have room for such a large painting at the time, or the money, but she became my patient a few years later when I had the wall space and the money; the painting was still available thankfully.  I love it.  The flowers are from friends for my birthday last week.


While I was taking the grief course last week, we touched upon the idea of altars to remember people.  I was thinking about building one when I realized I already have one.  Not everyone is dead, thank goodness, but these are my people.


I tried to put the highchair away but when Jack came back, I realized we still need it; he likes it and if I'm honest, I like it because it contains him while he's eating.


 There is only one bowl of tomatoes left on my kitchen island.  I've made a lot of tomato sauce this year.  The roses are from friends for my birthday last week.

15 comments:

  1. Lovely home and impressively clean and tidy!

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  2. You do keep a tidy house! And I love your pictures and plants very much. I think we may have the same refrigerator.

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  3. I love your house. It's soothing and beautiful.

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  4. What a beautiful home and so very neat! Love your photo altar; I have one upstairs on my bedroom dresser.

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  5. Your home is just lovely!!! I especially love those hardwood floors!

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  6. You do have a beautiful and comfortable house. I echo the rest on how clean and tidy it is. You also have some very good friends, if all those flowers are any indication.

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  7. This series of photos of your home are just as beautiful as your landscape photos. A peaceful and secure place for Jack to grow up in. Your indoor light is lovely. Love the large painting of flowers. I do understand the wish to be active and outside this time of year. Hoping that your foot appreciates the rest and heals up in time for some good walks in the snow.

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  8. I calm and centering home. I would show you mine but dust bunnies ......
    Can you drive somewhere and just sit in nature?

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  9. Your home is beautiful and I love those floors!

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  10. I like the "feel" of your house Nurse Lily. It seems so comfortable and thoughtfully "dressed". In the depths of winter that sunflower picture must remind you that dark days do not last forever.

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  11. Oh how I loved this tour of your house! -Kate

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  12. You have a lovely welcoming home. The altar to your beloveds is beautiful, and so organically made. I love your floors. They are the floors I wish I had, actually, but it was too complicated to arrange at the time. Lovely rich hardwood in warm tones. I hope you are able to get out soon, though. Your outdoors are beautiful too. You make the world beautiful where you are, and not just in a physical sense.

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  13. I absolutely love the idea of an altar to my people. I think I’ll give it a try.

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  14. My comment didn't take! Your house is so airy and lightfilled. Gorgeous!

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