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A Color Burst and Grist for the Contemplative Mill
Isn’t this burst of azalea color lovely? We are having below average rainfall and so even though it still gets moderately cold and is most often cloudy out there we have these periods where it i...
Escape? Certainly a Lifting Just Around the Corner
The daffodils are trying to make an escape from the local community garden. And yesterday after a day of rain the dandelions were up in the vacant lot next door, fresh and bright. Saint Joe had...
Patches of Sun for the Cats
The cats are having their morning nap on the far edge of the bed in a patch of extremely welcome sunshine. It was below freezing when I got up this morning but there is no doubt that spring is m...
The Sun Has Been Out All Day!!! Yeah.
So after church on Sunday I stopped to talk to a woman sitting next to us that was interested in my yoga class (I hope she comes) and then went down to our main social hall to check in and go to...
Thriving and Thorny
From Wednesday late afternoon, this is a street I cross most everyday, as it is the way into downtown. I was so discouraged to see that tent there as this is the spot where the growing encampme...
Being Seen (and Heard)
This shot from yesterday is of a heritage Hawthorne tree out in front of the church I go to. There are three. The shape of them bare is still quite beautiful. I took this because I went to an ev...
One of *Those* Old Ladies
This was yesterday as the thaw was beginning. You may note that while the longer branches of the tree have snow on them, the outer branches are blooming. We still have snow on the ground as it i...
Snow Day - This Too Shall Pass
I don’t think this photo needs any explanation. Sigh. I took it yesterday when I was still able to get out safely. We had more snow overnight and while it is warming up a bit it is still below ...
More Dark but with Crocus!
This was yesterday in the rain at Kes and Most Honorable’s place about an hour south of here. I took this just outside their backdoor standing in a dry patch under an overhang but this is the vi...
A Little Cold, A Little Dark
We’re back! I did try finding my diary on OD but received no response from support other than the automated one acknowledging my request. Having Prosebox down all week has been sort of symptoma...
Even in the Midst
It is a bit hard to tell in the gray glare here that these trees are budding. We are having weather that sort of mirrors the financial markets, lots of volatility in temperature with almost 30° ...
Vulnerability, Projection and umm, Smoothies
Yep, unlike last year we are seeing signs of unfolding abundance everywhere in this last week. I saw my first Varied Thrush of the year near here and the camellias, daffodils, crocus (stating th...
On We Went. On We Go.
I took this two days ago but since then we are starting to see blooming crocus and the first daffodils and today two early blooming trees. Oh and there is an allergy and asthma alert. Although ...
Princess in the House
“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”― Arne Garborg who was a Norwegian writer born in 1851. Spring and the return of co...
Curious, and a New Challenge
I realize that someone as desperate for color as me here in this wet cold winter most likely went out and bought this flowering plant and put it in this raised bed but it does perfectly express ...
Looking for a Tad More Energy
Hard to believe with the low light but I took this at noon a couple of days ago. This is the house originally with the sharpening shop on the ground floor on a triangular corner that I am writin...
An Opportunity to Indulge a Little
This space in the photo makes me slightly crazy. It is a big public space that was created about 50 years ago when they tore down the neighborhood in which I live in the name of Urban Renewal. ...
Ineffable
This is a statue of our former mayor Vera Katz who died recently. Someone very appropriately put a pink hat on her this morning. Our version of the Women’s March 2018 was canceled and while the...
Buried and Battered Democracy is Alive in Us
Yes, I am still seeing homeless encampments and people sleeping rough out everywhere but on Saturday I saw my first blooming camellia of the year. We are only four weeks away from early crocuses...
Privilege and Gratitude
After a week of rain we are finally getting a break. It has been so dark and damp and cave-like and it is affecting everyone’s mood. Well that… and the news. I guess one good tidbit is that ou...
At Least the Cats Don't Mind
11AM Sunday morning. What I thought remarkable about this was that whoever was sleeping in the closest doorway was sleeping under one of those super soft synthetic blankets but this one had Eife...
Picking Up Maybe Not So Good Vibrations?
Because we met at the gym yesterday instead of Weight Watchers, Mrs. Sherlock asked if we could meet a half hour later. We did our default river loop walk, but backwards. She wasn’t feeling well...
What I Do Now
The picture is an atmospheric mood shot of downtown. Wow, so back to it, a slightly modified regular schedule. Compared to many of you our weather has been mild though it has been windy and co...
The Gift of a Warm Bed and Cats
Happy New Year! We aren’t quite there yet. This is the library at Portland State at dusk that I walk by all the time. I love the light here. The library was built around the heritage Golden Beec...
Aspirational Word for 2018
A paper snowflake Miss E. made a few years back and sent in her Christmas card and a quilt that was a gift about the same time from a former coworker (a lovely surprise). We went from ice (it w...
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