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I (Almost) Heard That
Carlo on Christmas morning. The gray throw was supposed to be a gift for me. We know how that worked out. There were fresh organic oranges in my Imperfect box on Monday so I had fresh squeezed ...
Let it Go, Let it Go, Let it Go
In an exchange of texts on Friday night Mrs. Sherlock asked if I wanted to hike up to Pittock Mansion instead of doing the default river loop walk we often do on Saturday mornings. I was to mee...
Being Green and a Turn out of the Dark
We made it to the solstice! A bit of a bumpy ride for the world but we made it. For those of you who have light and lots of it, may it not be too much of a sweaty burden and for those of us in ...
Kicked Out of the Nest
You know you take the good with the not so good, the beautiful and pleasing with the not so beautiful and pleasing. This is an old traffic structure in my neighborhood a couple of days ago and ...
The Opposite of Mindfulness and Ostentatious Wealth
Yesterday afternoon after teaching my work class I clocked out, came home and with perfect timing Kes and Most Honorable (my sister and Brother-in-Law and Love) appeared at my door. I had spent...
Why Bother?
It has been an unusually quiet weekend for me. In spite of a bunch of chores and holiday prep to do Friday after work I turned in early thinking I would get up and go to the gym and walk with Mr...
Cold Yoga? A Thing?
This is a shot from this time last year of one of the heritage trees we visited on our walk last weekend. It has been a bit of a challenge to get interesting pictures out and about right now as ...
Pretty or Tasty Orange Things
It may be a little less than three weeks until the solstice but it sure looks (and feels) a lot like winter out there. Yesterday we mostly walked Frida through a residential neighborhood that ha...
A Good Kind of Intervention and Cars
I took this a couple of days ago and put it up as my cover shot on Facebook. I like it because of the way the light hits the leaves and the fact that those leaves are not totally sodden. Last ye...
On Canning Labels and Aging
Yesterday morning we had heavy heavy fog. That darker gray blob there in the river is a great blue heron standing on the tip of a floating log. The picture doesn’t do the scene justice but at le...
Just the Thing
Today is one of those transitional days between fall and winter. As you can see above it was a wet one. After the driest November on record here in Oregon. I took this in Salem, about an hour s...
Gratitude, Oh Yes
It was windy, it was cold but man was it beautiful here yesterday. We went walking south of Portland in mostly reclaimed farmlands in an area with expensive homes and some really nice parkland. ...
Incrementally Making My Way
There were some technical issues with our annual work upgrade and in spite of a major effort to contain the work to last night… it leaked over into today but it is done!!! This is my 11th of the...
Celebrating Interspecies Cohabitation Day
Tomorrow is the 4th anniversary of the day Carlo and Diego came to live here. I can’t believe it has been 4 years! The cats are certainly acclimated and are currently curled up together sleeping...
Entitlement and Heartbreak
A clear (ish) crisp fall day here in the Pacific Northwest. If you look carefully in the distance in this photo you can see Mt. Hood. I have been looking for an opportunity to get a walk in back...
Getting Out the Damn Door
I got my reimaged work computer back today. It took me over an hour trying various things to figure out how to get one of my screens to function properly. The fact that I move between docking st...
A Malicious Distraction
This messy busy picture is of the street my apartment faces on a weekday full of cars of working people trying to avoid the high fees to park at the local garages. Without a resident sticker (th...
Pipe Dreams and Pumpkin Sized Squash
This is the main street a few days ago in the part of my neighborhood that was “redeveloped”. All the businesses and house were torn down, all the rich history of a diverse immigrant community ...
A Warm Radiant Smile
This is the wet ground out front. After a dry and unusually gorgeous most of October we now have had almost (just a quarter inch shy) all of our average rainfall for the month. It has been comin...
Sadness and Shoes
“My” beloved track. I once had an interview with a young man for a stockbroker job that was comprised almost exclusively of talking on the phone and he had a terrible stutter. We didn’t talk abo...
A Little Dark, A Little Light with Camelia
This is a confused but beautiful camellia blooming down the block last week when we had unusual amounts of sun. Now it is drizzling and we won’t see the sun in quite some time but the camellias ...
Misgivings and Things To Do
I can’t resist one last beach picture. This was at sunrise on Saturday. A young woman was out on the beach before me, hence the three sets of footprints…hers up and back and mine. I feel calm ju...
Sneaker Waves and a Changeable Ocean
We go hang out on the Oregon Coast twice a year for 3 days in April and October and there is always some rain and if we are lucky maybe now and then a sunny day. This trip we had fog early and g...
Rest and Digest
The weather is absolutely gorgeous here! Of course to have blue skies and bright fall color we also have a strong cold wind but still… it is not wet, it is not overcast, it is not foggy. Ah. I ...
The Courage of My Convictions
So I feel like there is sexual discrimination where I work. I am pretty sure that Saint Joe, who is 34 years younger than me but a strapping blond motorcycle riding guy makes close to as much mo...
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What flits through at a particular time.
