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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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As today is a holiday the buses are running less frequently and with inexperienced drivers. To get to the studio to teach this morning I had to leave early and so I brought my camera with me. It...

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The cats are wrestling on the bed. They do a little more of this than I am comfortable with, but they don’t hurt each other and eventually they stop. The big thing is that they throw off a lot o...

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There is a satisfying balance here between the bunny (hopeful) and the fall leaves (transitional). One of our big fires is completely contained but others are still burning. But after days of cl...

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This is the rooming house across the way just a week shy of a year ago. It is the building that was hand painted recently. It is now beige with a medium brown (with a greenish tinge) trim. Becau...

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This is an apartment house, very bare bones, built in 1890. It was just off the commercial street. It has eight tiny units. We have a college of Naturopathic medicine in the old neighborhood sch...

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This is part of the path I take when I walk the neighborhood in the morning. Those are a couple of magnificent trees to the right and from the top of the path if one looks out carefully behind t...

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The big news here of course is the fires. The heartbreaking scary drought and wind fueled wildfires. Yesterday the air here in Portland was bad. The whole city smelled like it was on fire and th...

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