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by noko

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December 14, 2016

Here in Princess Land

This is the upper part of the park (with the track that they have been working on for months now) a couple of days ago after the thaw. I think there is a stark beauty here. It is supposed to sta...


December 11, 2016

Thaw

This is late morning today. Today! It was supposed to thaw yesterday. I still couldn’t make it to my own personal grocery store though I did make it to a store and got fruit and eggs and tortill...


December 10, 2016

The Tyranny of To Dos

I haven’t been out further than my patio since yesterday morning before the snow to walk up and down the local public stairway to get my Fitbit floors in. The plan was that it was supposed to s...


December 09, 2016

A Whole New World

One thing that may seem confusing to folks that live somewhere where winter weather is expected and normal and folks are prepared for it is that here in Portland when it snows it is a very very ...


Say hello to Henry. The picture is what it is, there wasn’t enough light yesterday to get a clear shot without the flash but you get the general idea. He is an engaged little guy. He has long le...


December 03, 2016

Not Soon Enough!

It is raining but if it weren’t it would look like this right now. I took this around this time a few years ago. With this unusually wet weather one needs to get one’s mood pictures in where one...


December 01, 2016

Slightly Counter Culture

This is an interesting shot that highlights what a workable historic district designation can have on a neighborhood. Both the house on the left and right were built in the late 1800’s. The rent...


November 29, 2016

In a World

The other morning I was out early and though we had ground fog near the churned up fast flowing muddy river full of broken branches the sharp sliver of the crescent moon was glimmering through t...


I wanted to get a blanket to use for my personal yoga practice (as opposed to one I share with the cats) and was looking online for something reasonable and I chose a striped green, black and wh...


November 23, 2016

What the Heck

This is from Sunday morning too. It is in front of a house that is for sale a few blocks down. They put a lot of money into landscaping this small restored place from the 1800s. I think he was/i...


November 21, 2016

Activism on the Horizon?

When I was reading oral narratives by people who lived in this neighborhood as children they often talk about the fruit trees. Those are apples back there. The trees are actually not on the prop...


Our Japanese Garden in November. I took this nine years ago. Wow. My Periodontist neglected to tell me that the stitches he used a few weeks ago were resolvable so I have had this background wor...


November 18, 2016

A Formerly Normal Sized Person

On Tuesday UPS sent me an email that a package would be delivered between 10AM and 2PM so I was ready. My new iPhone was on its way. At 9:45 my doorbell rang and it turned out to be an Amazon de...


Wow. I feel better. I think maybe I had a bug. I was trying to figure out why my head and lower back and hips ached because it didn’t seem like I had done any overly ambitious exercise. My mouth...


November 13, 2016

Deep Breathing

If you look out my front windows it looks like winter. There is still some fall in the back. Yesterday evening I was able to get all the leaves off my patio as the trees above have by now releas...


November 11, 2016

Grid Lock in So Many Ways

I read about the electrical grid and look out the window at late fall. Electricity is fascinating. It is very now. I am typing this on my precious slow laptop on the power cord and it is very l...


We had a gorgeous dry day today. It was a joy to be out in it. The mountains were visible and covered in fresh snow. Kitten has arrived. Pictures will follow. He may end up being Oliver, or Kit,...


November 06, 2016

But Then Again…

This is one of the ginko’s next to my place. November is yellow here. So after seeing the whole team of dental specialists last week I was sad to hear that they have plans for me after January. ...


November 03, 2016

Living Up to Expectations

It is not raining! After almost three times the normal rainfall over the last five weeks it is such a joy to be out and about with no precipitation to describe degrees of. There is progress in ...


November 01, 2016

Not Quite With It

I know, it is Halloween but please indulge me one last picture of the beach even though I am home. We had such a relaxing time. When one thinks about it the fact that everything went so well and...


October 29, 2016

Loving It

It is gorgeous here right now. I took this shot just after dawn so it was still a bit cloudy. My inner pony could not wait to get out on the beach. Looking ahead we had a pretty good idea that ...


October 24, 2016

How Wet Are You?

This is the mix of leaves outside the windows of my bedroom/office. Yesterday after the heavy wet atmospheric fog burned off the river and surrounds we had a light sunny day. I walked with Frida...


October 22, 2016

The Philosophy Cafe?

I won’t be able to go to the Mythos class for the final session next week because I will be at the beach. It is so good. Last night we talked about the modern Mythos, what ideas or concepts are ...


October 19, 2016

Leaf Fall and Asides

Welcome to my world of wet leaves. This is the colorful downside of living in a place so green in an environment of climate change. I feel for the guys out there finishing up the work on the tra...


October 17, 2016

Taking a Deep Breath

We had a big wet windstorm yesterday afternoon and I managed to get out a bit before the worst of it hit to take this shot. It was kind of like a free day because we were planning a hike and din...


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