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An urban scene here, this is the courtyard at the Portland Art Museum. I walk by here a number of times a week, including last night. The trees are spectacular even as we turn towards winter. Af...

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We are coming out of a handful of very wet days. We need the rain and I am not complaining but the dark and blowing splat in the face rain has felt, well, effortful. I have what I call my “rain...

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I am typing this on my laptop, my poor old refurbished laptop, with a cat curled up against each hip. The boys just completed the after dinner snack bath ritual. We like routine around here, app...

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It is one of these days here, low light, damp and almost dark even though the clock says it is before noon. Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of when I brought these handsome rascals home wi...

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We are going through the last gasp of fall here with most of the trees either bare or much denuded of leaves but every once in a while there is a pocket of colorful beauty. It has been a wet mes...

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So Sunday morning the sun sort of came out just after dawn and our time change and I put on all my raingear and went out on the beach for a walk. It was the first blue sky we had seen all weeken...

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This is Patience. She is a Western Gull. Her territory, (along with Bob her mate) is the house on the beach on the Oregon Coast I go to twice a year. She is not proud. She struts up and down alo...

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This is a picture I took a few days ago of an ivy-covered wall of this wonderful Spanish style condo building built into the hill about two blocks from here. The tramline runs silently above it....

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Burr. It is cold and damp and we are firmly entrenched in fall. My volunteer coordinator is taking a rare vacation next week and told everyone that Tuesday night was my last night teaching on t...

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I took this yesterday morning with my phone. Sorry about the blur, it was a low light day full of glare. I was walking west across the new bridge and it is interesting to me that I had taken alm...

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So very late we are finally seeing dahlias here in my neighborhood. I took this a few days ago. The colors are so unexpected this time of year. If you look carefully into the glare to the left o...

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I took this shot a while back but the light looks just like this out there now with fabulous rays touching on brilliant colors. On Saturday morning we did this exercise in Weight Watchers about...

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When I am out and about I try to be fully present and not off in some story in my head. As most of you are aware who know me here, because I take the bus places I am often a bit early where I am...

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I only have 18 more days keeping to this schedule, this crazy schedule that is doing a number on my ability to focus and be fully present. This morning I worked very intensely, then taught and ...

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“I heard that Sri Krishnamacharya liked to say that when you are doing asana the quality of your attention should be similar to when you try to take a loose eyelash out of your eye.” Olga, my te...

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It was a gorgeous mild day here today. It is a bit disconcerting to see through the haze the mountains that are normally so startlingly white this time of year and to know they have no snow on t...

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Is this not a lovely door? I like the whole picture, the reflections and the shapes but mostly I like the door. My cohort at work St. Joe went to school for a time at the college in Southern Or...

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Here we have one of the buildings the art students at Portland State University use. This mural is new and painted over the previous not particularly attractive one which I have a picture of som...

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The cats have been driving me slightly crazy lately. I feed them their wet food dinner at 4:30 and about an hour before that if I am working at home they start agitating for food. Diego walks ac...

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This is a shot from the track I walk on (and sometimes run on) a half block from my place. It was built over a dump that filled in a gulch that had a creek running down to the Willamette River, ...

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This is one of our older way too well used bridges. I took this shot Friday from the new bridge. It was such a beautiful fall day and we are having another one of those today. We did have one ni...

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This is the new bridge yesterday afternoon just after work. S. came over and met me here and we walked from West to East and then did a big loop along the river crossing back again over the Stee...

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We are at that transition point of late summer early fall. Overcast and glare, the air like the ocean full of cool and warm currents, crickets in the early evening and chestnuts breaking open on...

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Sorry. No pictures of the girls yet. It is crazy in Portland this weekend. The New York Times posted one of their 36 Hours features set here in our fair city late last week and the first new bri...

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I took this shot Monday over in another part of town where the dahlias and the hollyhocks were robust this year. These plants are in a big vibrant community garden. Instead of getting all het u...

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