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Iris, Sugar Snap Peas and Privilege
Plantings on the Portland State campus on this last Friday evening. There is so much happening on the flower clock right now. We have a little ever-changing quiz on our main info page at work th...
No Time Like the Present
The pink dogwoods are particularly gorgeous this year. It may have something to do with the gray mist, glare and fog we have had that make them stand out or it could be, like with the iris a cou...
Keep Calm... and Burning Down the House
The lilac garden yesterday at noon. It was gloomy and misty but that brings out the colors in the flowers. Yesterday was the annual May Day celebration at the park nearby with all the kids and ...
Outrage and Naps
This blooming tree is so pretty when the light hits it. Today we have some intense glare but I am wearing sunblock anyway. The five days without rain are not going to materialize. We had rain l...
My Arduous Commute
I took this on Wednesday on my way home from class. It is also my arduous commute to and from the office, all 2 ½ blocks of it. I look forward to these trees blossoming out each year creating th...
A Short Post with Hope
And a very well organized march it was. Plus I had a chance to see and hear my national Congressman who was home today, an enthusiastic speaker before the march. This helped me feel that there ...
Picking Up the Chorus
These tulips are in Kes and Most Honorable’s garden. I like the wash of color and slight imperfection of the wayward petal as if this were a painting. There are pink blossoms out my east facing...
Back in the Thickets
Yesterday morning. Sigh. The three and a half days went by so fast! But they were mellow and sweet. We didn’t even have that much rain. I was able to get out for long walks and spend hours watch...
Run Run Run Runaway
We are at the beach! It is sunny and raining all at the same time. It has been like this for a couple of weeks, warm and cold, wet and dry all at the same time. I usually walk to the train stati...
Good News, Sad News and then Diego
Oh wonderful abundance, it is hard to choose which photo to put up. This is a house about two blocks away just after sunrise Sunday. I was going to go to the gym to do my leg presses this eveni...
Short Take With Photo (Really)
Photobucket is somewhat operational again so I was able to get this picture and yesterdays up. It is weird because I could see my photo yesterday but apparently none of you could. Something to d...
Slippery Slope
I took this from the train on Sunday while we were stopped just south of Willamette Falls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willamette_Falls) to let another train pass. That is one of the many plea...
Celebrating the Ordinary
If you have been reading here you will notice something extraordinary about this picture I took yesterday morning. Yes! Not only is it not raining we had blue sky!!! At 9 AM. It is a miracle. I...
Adapting to Change, or Not
This is Spring Break on the Portland State campus on Wednesday night at dusk. I’ve been kind of blue this week in some ways and fine in others. I didn’t have any students show up on Wednesday ...
You Just Never Know
The trees are coming into full gorgeous bloom under (mostly) sodden skies. It rained and rained and then rained some more yesterday. We are working on three times our average rainfall for March ...
Half Past Crows
This is the area next to the far end of our convention center this morning. When I ran/walked the half marathon the start and finish were here. On Rose Parade day in June all the participants wi...
Some Perspective on Failure
Spring is moving through so fast. It is such a relief to have periods of clearing interspersed with the longer periods of rain. We are all talking about it here. We are edging towards 9 inches o...
What Counts
Will you look at that! The clouds moved back to the edges of the valley today to give us a break from the rain. That is Mt. St. Helen’s out there beyond the crane. I took the long way home from ...
10 Minute Increments
It is raining again but yesterday it didn’t. What a difference having a day without rain makes now and then. I am struggling with time management this week. There isn’t enough of it with the ti...
Crowns!
Sad but hopeful, this tall daffodil casting a shadow yesterday morning… today we are back to rain and it is supposed to rain all week. At the dental school this morning there was much joking ar...
Desperate for Color
I am so desperate for color in this dark wet gray world that I hope you can forgive me for posting a crocus picture yet again. Don’t tell anyone but today we had some intermittent sun and so far...
So Now How To Further the Cause?
This is one of my favorite gardens in the neighborhood. Those are tulip leaves there in the pot. Battered and full of glare the daffodils are finally beginning to bloom and although the crocuses...
A Good Day
It is raining and snowing. Sigh. Luckily it isn’t sticking. I was very cautious yesterday about committing myself to being out and about and even though I did use buses judiciously I still ende...
Civility and Dystopia and a Mad Man in Charge
We had a break in the rain yesterday morning for a few hours and under quite changeable skies I was able to get this shot of some decorative trees starting to bloom in an empty parking lot I was...
A Quick Take and Mood Modification
Okay, so I took this last year at this time. It is so dark and wet out now that even though the trees are beginning to bud it is not possible to get a picture. I saw the yellow of a daffodil hea...
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What flits through at a particular time.
