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The Late Winter Blues
Just in case you didn’t get the memo…we have had almost four times our normal rainfall this month. FOUR TIMES! Record breaking, more rain than has been ever recorded before rain. And, oh, guess...
Old Lady Talk and a Breakthrough
Hmmm. The new (expertly installed, ha, so says Diego) modem is faster but it is not as stable as the old one. I just had a minor apoplectic moment where I thought I was going to need to go into ...
The Life Domestic
I took this yesterday during a brief break in the rain. They are my favorite crocuses in the neighborhood and they are late coming up this year. We are having an absurd amount of rain. One has t...
An Unexpected Encounter With a Waterfall
This is Cedar Mill Falls in a suburban area near Portland, an upscale suburban neighborhood near Nike and Intel. Mrs. Sherlock asked me in class last night if I wanted to go for a group hike thi...
From the Idyllic to the Disturbing and Back
This is a shot of iconic Reed College from Sunday. It is raining hard right now so I am not taking many pictures. I suspect the pink balloons are a hold over from the Women’s March but that is a...
Metaphorical Winter and Signs of Spring
Things that make me happy today… It is not raining! The crocuses are finally starting to appear. (I took this yesterday noon.) When I was waiting for the bus after the final concert of the fest...
Transcendent Beauty and Limitations
So this is where I spent part of my day yesterday, St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The Cathedral was built in this location in 1926 and was fully restored to this more modern ...
Daring to Hope?
In the quest for marketing materials I started taking pictures of the new studio. Folks moan and groan about coming downtown at rush hour but they love the studio. But Mrs. Sherlock cut it too s...
Out in The World
I took this Saturday in the neighborhood. People are always doing whimsical things like this around here if you look carefully. This is a utility pole next to a bus stop. That is the busy street...
Bypassing the Snow Directly to Ice
We just skipped the snow and went right to ice on Thursday night. Other than to change out the bird food on the patio I did not go out at all yesterday. I canceled my class, which made me sad, a...
Speaking Strictly as a Proud Snowflake
I heard in a factual news report this morning that Stephen Bannon, the White House advisor responsible for the inauguration speech and immigration ban calls people like me “Liberal Snowflakes”. ...
About the Man in the Women’s Restroom
On Friday I had two students in class. It was fun because I can pay a lot of attention to them both and use props to support and encourage the particular needs of their bodies. They know each ot...
About the Demoralized Thing...
This is the back of St Michael the Archangel Church, the oldest Catholic Church in Portland. This building is from 1894. The history goes back further but in a small chapel that was moved two ti...
The Sleeping Giant Stirs
This afternoon I crossed the big street near my place to get to the bus stop I need to use to get to my regular grocery store because the regular closer bus stop has been decommissioned in respo...
Mass Civility Breaks Out
This was before the rain got to a steady soaking chord and made it difficult to get decent pictures. I was right in the middle of the staging area and all by myself because there were so many pe...
If You Listen Carefully, You Can Hear Spring
This is the sidewalk in front of my place this morning. I went out to take this picture with no grippers on my shoes. No grippers! First time in 8 days. Even though the thaw started Tuesday afte...
My Marshmallow
On Christmas day as we were all meeting each other and sampling lovely snacks and sipping wine before dinner I brought up the famous study that was done back in the day about willpower and self-...
Oh Look! Snow. Sigh
My new inside joke…Oh look! There is snow on the ground. I can tell the progress of the thaw my how much of my mud man is exposed. This was about an hour ago. This is Day 5 of the aftermath of o...
Snow Bound Still
It is going to be like this for a few more days. Well, through Monday. I have been out in the very local neighborhood a few times since the big storm. Today, this afternoon, I am venturing to th...
Natural Distraction
Now we have light… snow light. This is a scrub jay in for a peanut about an hour ago. Those of you who live in places where snow is normal in winter would be proud of me. I was out there shovel...
The Darker Side of Urban Life
So it has been hard to take pictures for the last few weeks because we have no light. We are in this perpetual heavy cloud cover that moves and morphs and clears in a tiny corner for five minute...
Generating Heat
This is a cottage in the neighborhood that I am fond of taken at this time of year though not today because today we have snow and everything is cancelled. It is warming and raining right this m...
Maybe a Massage?
With dry scouring winds we have finally had some clearing and the mountains are gorgeous if one can stand being out in the wind long enough to view them. We are supposed to get more snow tomorro...
An Auspicious Beginning
I think this is a Tilia cordata ‘Winter Orange’. A linden, or a lime? Striking in the fog though. Apparently the colder it is the more orange it gets. They had snow in Salem. We, on yesterday’s...
A Perpetual Magpie
Happy New Year! This is the serene small studio at the space where I took the anatomy workshop a few weeks back. It looks almost like it could be on a ship: perhaps an icebreaker. :) It was sup...
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