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Bleh, Ice, Bleh
We were just supposed to get freezing rain on Sunday. Surprise. Since then I have only been out a few steps. Right this moment, an hour before noon, it is still below freezing and unbelievably ...
Lightweight Allergic Princess Snowflake
Well according to the Google Santa Tracker he is about to stop by Alice Springs in a few moments. He is booking! :) I try to put up pictures here that are maybe not the best I take but are evoca...
Eight Spoons Down
This is the park a half block up the hill I live on this morning. We’ve had heavy miasmic fog but at least right this minute it is above freezing. We’ll have rain later, much easier to deal with...
Texture and a String of Colored Lights
Sometimes when I am out and about I take texture shots. This is one I took on Sunday. This morning I went to a work meeting. It is a meeting we have every two weeks and there are usually about ...
An Almost Imperceptible Snore and the Nature of Power
I took this picture because there is a Christmas tree on the back end of the top part of the crane towards the support. But what I like about it is the big sky, something we don’t get to see aro...
An Unexpected Pause in the Action
This is an iconic house on a busy street in NE Portland not far from where I used to live. I took this wandering around over there last weekend. It is cloudy, just a few degrees above freezing...
Finding Comfort Where We Can
This is a quite nice elaborate chicken coop down the block from the miniature goats. I saw a rabbit in there too. A little gray guy. The man that lives here was gently shooing the girls back int...
An Adorable Goat and Princess Observations
Here is one of the adorable and friendly miniature goats around the block from the yoga studio where I took the workshop. I went to visit them every day at the break. They have a new dispenser l...
Oh Do Let There Be Light (shortish, no homeless camps)
Light! Look at that. Clear sky in December. Amazing. This was yesterday midday during a break in the yoga workshop I am attending. So far I am not learning anything startlingly new but it is bri...
If I Could Just Stop Yawning
On Sunday we went out birding and had a good time even though it was a bit colder out on the island than in the city. Most Honorable brought his scope and it was relatively quiet out there so we...
Climate Change Chic
Yesterday we picked a part of town we both don’t know that well to walk in although Most Honorable grew up near here. It rained but not too hard but still Mrs. Sherlock and Frida and me, we get ...
Blame, Distraction and a Recycling Bin
This afternoon, just before dark on a piece of scrubland nearby where the express buses park. The encampment is all very neat but I do wonder how they get that “borrowed” recycling bin emptied. ...
A Small Business Milestone
Rain and red berries and twinkly lights as a kick off to the winter season even though we have a few weeks to go before we get there officially. Sorry about the polemic approach to my post Sund...
Hog Wild (But Modestly)
This is the west side of the Steel Bridge yesterday morning at 8:30AM. There was a whole crew of runners passing by because as you can see it was not raining but if you look closely you can see ...
This Grateful Heart
Wednesday late afternoon on my way to class. Yesterday afternoon in Salem with Jack and Henry. Those are heated cat beds there under those towels in front of the gas fireplace. My brother-in-l...
The Storm Before the Calm
This is some trash left by some folks living rough nearby. There is a lot of homeless activity near this unattended parking lot right up next to the freeway that borders downtown. Cars get broke...
Accepting Absence
This is my kitchen window this morning, this bleak and dreary morning. If you look carefully you will see a tree stump, a fresh tree stump close to the ground on the left. I came home on Thursd...
Extrapolate! Please.
I must have taken this Tuesday as it rained hard all day Wednesday and most of yesterday. I am hanging on here to any color in the environment I come across and although most of the trees are ba...
Late Tree Beauty and Fierce Determination
This was yesterday morning walking across the Hawthorne Bridge from the east side towards downtown. While everything here is now mostly bare or yellow there are still pockets of ornamental trees...
A Burst of Energy and Uncivil Society
It is not like I didn’t know this already but once again today I clearly understood that if I actually do whatever it is I am actively procrastinating on a great deal of energy is released and b...
Simple Joys and Learning to Surf (Metaphorically)
I took this Sunday morning walking over the big hill to the grocery just at sunrise. Mrs. Sherlock is in Japan and she sent me an email yesterday saying that she had ended up at the same hotel ...
My New Guardian
This was yesterday just after work. And vacuuming the living room. And taking the beets I had roasting out of the oven. No doubt about what season it is here. Most Honorable came up this morni...
Spiritual Bypass
I took this on Tuesday when I went down to get my new glasses. It is raining now and will for maybe four days so not so conducive to taking pictures, at least outside. Besides working and teach...
A Shark Shaped Kite and a Lack of Ambition
I took this yesterday afternoon but right now I am sitting stretched out on a love seat looking out the big windows of our modest rental at the same scene. You’d have to be from around here to n...
A Clean Fridge, Crested Berry Eater and a Long Tail
We did get out to the island on Sunday to sneak in a little birding. It was very relaxing. We were a little frustrated because we weren’t seeing much and then we went to this one spot where ther...
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What flits through at a particular time.
