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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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I took this shot a couple of days ago and I like it because except for the wire in the upper left corner (and yes I know I could have modified that out of the picture) and the modern rain draina...

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“It must have frustrated Devi as well, though she never wrote a word about it—a depressed, deadbeat, married Russian boyfriend wouldn’t have been helpful to the image she was cultivating.” Miche...

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I know there is glare and it is a little blurry but you get a sense of the bright blooming Crape (Crepe, I am seeing it spelled both ways) Myrtle here against the freshly painted blue house. A n...

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I’ve walked by this sign a number of times and just assumed it said something about the historic home converted into offices to the left. The other morning I actually read it. Ah. A building t...

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I took this from the aerial tram on this day, six years ago. I must have been working or doing something for Mr. Finch, as I believe this was right after he had the brain surgery. It was certain...

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I have discovered that tart cherry juice (apparently good for overuse inflammation) and vodka are a nice pairing. :) This is sort of an anti-glamour shot of the red cottage. As far as I know it ...

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Our dahlias aren’t doing so well this year here in my neighborhood but in other places they are thriving. This over-bright shot pretty much suits the glare filled humid hot town late summer in t...

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All I really want to do is read and write, practice yoga and teach a bit, take photos, hang out with the cats, go for long walks and the occasional run, eat good food and spend time with folks t...

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The men have taken the full pot of soup up to the park again. With this next baby due so soon I can’t carry much of anything except the twins. They manage to attach themselves, as if by magic,...

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This shot with the light starting to slant towards the equinox and with ragged wildflowers suits my mood today. I have been thinking about retirement from full time employment on and off for a n...

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I talked to the young man with the surfboard that lives next door to this house when I was taking the picture last weekend. I am not sure who lives here now but it is not being rented and it is ...

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“This is one of the oldest structures in the area, built in 1876. It became a boarding house where over time several Hebrew School teachers lived as well as a dance teacher.” I took this yesterd...

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1888 –The It Year Here I am having so much fun. It is like a big old jigsaw puzzle that I am putting together from various angles. What amazes me is how remarkably easy it is to talk to folks ab...

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It took a measuring tape, a saw and over three hours but I now have a perfectly installed brand new stainless steel electric stove. It is, of course, way too hot to cook anything. It was over 10...

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To everything, turn turn turn, there is a season… Even though it is the height of summer here the chestnuts on the big trees a few blocks down are getting ready to fall. I have tried to get som...

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“Anna Crocker lived in this house. She was a bright and talented portrait artist and respected supporter of the arts. After graduating from the Art Students League in New York, William Ladd appo...

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I took this with my phone yesterday so have less control over sizing it. This is the mystery apartment building from the front. It looks so normal from this angle but there is just yard and hill...

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This is a shot of the top of the old oddly sited apartment house from behind and the red of the cottage placed at the rear on the street side and the cottage next door, all of which are from the...

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