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From Tuesday. Happy early Equinox! Fall and cooler temps for hunkering down, spring and blissfully longer days. They say this is the earliest equinox in 124 years. Along with everything else i...

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Mrs. Sherlock had an idea for a local hike yesterday near where we had been before but not quite, at least for me. There is one neighborhood up in the West Hills of Portland that was built up ...

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Early this morning coming back from the grocery I noticed the three new ornamental cherries planted last summer were in bloom. After I washed up and put things away I went over and took pictur...

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From yesterday, this precocious iris is blooming across the street. You can tell that we had sun, lovely healing heartwarming sun. I received an email from my coordinator at the church early ...

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Daffodils are hard to shoot because they throw off so much glare, plus here their heads are often down from the early wind, rain and gloom. I took this a few days ago when we had a sun break. ...

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The natural cycle is not impressed by Covid-19. It is spring here and the histamines are intense. That means runny noses, scratchy throats, and a random cough now and then. Sitting in church y...

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Yesterday, the sun casting shadows on the leaf buds of the pear trees out back. There is a professor (Eitan Hersh) that has written a book called Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Pol...

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Back in my employment history there was a time when I was an independent financial planner and I loved it but it was very hard to be ethical and make a living working one on one. One of the th...

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“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That is the famous take away from the writer Michael Pollen’s most popular book The Omnivore’s Dilemma and a thing he still says today. This last wee...

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Another break in the rain. The narcissuses are all blooming and the purple crocus, as well as a few early trees. After a lifetime of migraines this is the first year ever I am experiencing t...

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It is winter, it is dark and wet so taking pictures out and about is a bit more of a challenge. This is one of my favorite pictures from a walk during a break in the rain a couple of weeks ago...

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Walking over to The Sherlock’s place on Sunday for lunch I had my eye out for signs of spring. It was foggy and cold but later in the afternoon it cleared and although still cold the mountain ...

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Ms. Fit had Mrs. Sherlock over Thursday morning to go over “proper” weight training form. As she has been fit and active her whole life I don’t think she is aware of where Mrs. Sherlock’s limi...

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I walked by this mural this morning painted under a nearby transit bridge that in the past has been attractive for encampments. That is why there are all those broken up chunks of old concrete...

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This might seem like a small thing but having the energy and the range of motion to wash and change my sheets is pretty exciting here in recovery land. Saturday I got up stiff and sore as I h...

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A shot of the Willamette River from the Steel Bridge traveling from the west to east on a train heading south yesterday morning. Although we had a lot of rain in January, we were getting these...

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We had a deeply appreciated break in the rain yesterday morning and I made my first independent run to the grocery since the fall. It felt so good to be back doing the regular things. Those bu...

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I still haven’t heard yet about the community garden plot but I am hopeful. One of the things I am hoping to grow is chard; lot’s of chard, and on Monday I got a bunch in my Imperfect box. Wit...

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So here I am five days out from the fall and still very much dealing with the injury. It is way better. The intense overwhelming pain is gone, at least mostly. I felt a touch of it this mornin...

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I woke up pale and grumpy Monday and although I had a number of things that could be done before I left in the late afternoon to teach there wasn’t a great deal of motivation to do any of them...

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From our group hike in the wind and the rain on Friday. If I were a bird this would be a sight for winter weary eyes. As we were all standing in a circle, stamping our feet in the cold, like p...

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It is raining and foggy and dark dark dark out. I took this a few days back. These are daffodil shoots coming up under the oak leaves behind the fence at what I hope will me “my” community gar...

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The ground is getting saturated enough after months of less than normal rainfall to bring trees down with the big wind. I am always sad when a tree comes down and grateful when they don’t take...

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New shoots! Crocus I think. Not that my day yesterday was stressful or anything, it was pouring most of the day so it was a domestic one until the evening when I went to teach. We are focusin...

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This is from the hike on New Year’s Day. The light was low but you at least get the tone, the feel of the day here. Mrs. Sherlock and I were going to hike today and I was looking forward to i...

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