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The tulip trees (that is what we call them here) are blooming and after 21 straight days of rain the sun is out and the ground (in patches) is dry! It is gorgeous and there is a bunch of happy ...

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We should start seeing the first early irises soon. There is a most chattered about rumor going around that we might get a three-day break in the rain starting tomorrow sometime. Saint Joe is t...

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Have I mentioned it is raining? Yeah, yeah, I know, it is not as bad as the flooding that is going on in Louisiana and Texas. My heart goes out to those folks experiencing flooding for the firs...

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This is another view of the small Parks Department community garden at the end of my neighborhood. What I like about this picture is the light in the foreground. Well, it is home territory too ...

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We are in a blustery changeable very dramatic weather period but on Saturday morning while waiting for S and Frieda down by the river we had a moment where the sun broke through the clouds and ...

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When I went to visit Kes last weekend she shared with me their most recent distraction (when they aren’t doing the mini-crosswords). It is an app, a game for girls and cat lovers called Neko At...

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Isn’t this pretty? I hope Kes and Most Honorable don’t mind, this is their backyard that I visited on Saturday. Noko, Sammy and Stella are all buried in the back there by where the pile of smal...

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I am happy with the composition here, just love it, but oh to have a lightweight SLR with a polarizing lens… A new camera is on my wish list as well as a new laptop, bed, yoga mat… you get the ...

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I am posting more often here lately for a combination of reasons… I have a little more time than usual, I have a strong urge to communicate and my usual sources of companionship have been other...

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Last night I finished watching La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet and enjoyed it. This is a link to it It took me a week. Even though I am teaching a more reasonable amount of classes I still hav...

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A couple of weeks ago when I was walking through the Portland State campus on my way home from teaching I passed an earnest young woman explaining to a young man what the colloquialism “Preachi...

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This is one of the two small community gardens in the neighborhood a few days ago. Sorry about the glare but that is the way of it in Portland most of the year. The Parks Department runs this p...

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Nostalgia = from Greek nostos ‘return home’ + algos ‘pain. I heard a short snippet of an interview this morning while puttering around my kitchen (getting food for the cats and wild birds in or...

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These are old bricks from the mid 1800’s. Spring is most assuredly on its way here under one rainsquall after another. Last night we had a little break and it was just lovely to be out in the r...

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I took this Friday. It is, much to my dismay, another house in the neighborhood being auctioned off by the county soon. It was built in 1910. I have better pictures of bits and pieces of it. At...

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I took this a few days ago. The glare, the winter trees… this is where the old competing stables with the ones that were where I live and blacksmith barn used to be and for the whole time I hav...

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It is hard not to feel that we have been blessed with the best gift in the world, we have sun! The ground is (mostly) dry. All the puddles that have become such a known part of the local terrai...

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It is dry and the sun is kind of sort of out, oh happy day for freedom of movement and the sheer luxury of not feeling like one is a city dweller in the clouds. Mostly I have been resting. I l...

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Thanks for your good wishes for the dental procedures yesterday. Nimrod let me work from home in the morning, in spite of the new restrictive policy on telecommuting and that was most helpful. ...

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Have I mentioned that it is raining? We did have a couple of days that were mostly dry and we even had a little partial clearing but like a depressive fog that comes upon the body this cold da...

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This is the left side of one of the rainbows I saw walking with S on Friday afternoon along the riverfront. I posted the right side shot up on Facebook. The sky was that glowering green gray ...

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Although it may seem like I am sitting quietly at my desk on this rainy cold day clicking on things, working, my mind is roving hither and yon… Thinking about poetry, a line from the Portland f...

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After an unexpectedly beautiful (mostly) dry day yesterday we are back to rain land today. This is the third attempt at a shot of the four “bubbler” fountain over on the start of the Eastside E...

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I took this yesterday morning with my phone during a small break in the rain. It is all there, the water beads on the wild grass and moss, the glare from the heavy cloud cover and the hopeful s...

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Today was the first in twelve days where we had enough of a break in the rain to actually see the sun for oh, maybe, two hours… but they were glorious hours. We are of course aware of the big s...

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