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by noko

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No rain yet. It looked like maybe we would get some yesterday but now they are saying more dry weather but at least the temperatures are moderate, not nauseatingly blast furnace hot like we had ...


Here is another house portrait. A quiet woman, in her fifties with a small dog that does not like cats lives here. My impression is that she is a widow. I don’t know why, she seems complete in a...


Yesterday evening after returning from Salem where I spent an easy relaxing day with Kes and Most Honorable I still needed some activity so even though it was hot (we are ready for a break now t...


This is a detail on the garage of a house around the corner. The house was built for one woman and then the house next door, which is almost identical, were occupied at one point by a woman in o...


Title: I took this yesterday out in the neighborhood. Like everywhere else we are having unusual weather, it has been dry hot and muggy and Sunday was a particularly miserable example of that ...


June 28, 2015

Racoons, Party of Five

Title: I like this picture of some almost hidden architectural detail of a porch in my neighborhood. It is interesting now after seven years of wandering around with some sort of device that co...


So this is the mimosa tree I mentioned recently. I found another smaller one across the property two lots down to make four altogether. I am most curious about these trees. This is the house Ear...


Not the castle house but detail of another one up there in the same area. As I (and my family) have been reading more about bottle diggers and how they find sites I realized that I could go to ...


June 21, 2015

Old Glass

This is some detail of the castle house from our walk on Thursday. I like to imagine being the kind of person that would live here. Confident and quirky, well off and creative, young and terrib...


Out and about this morning I took this with my phone that is why the sizing is a bit off. The best gift I could possibly imagine for my birthday was having not just the day off but this whole we...


June 18, 2015

The Mystery Shifts Focus

There is something about the mash up of green colors, textures and the way the petals of the flower are spread out, almost a sense of movement here that I like. This is over by the track, the pl...


This time last year we had just arrived here at the wonderful cabins on the Metolious River. The only time in three years I’ve been somewhere where we didn’t have reliable Internet access. I kno...


The house on the right is the house that burned in the back. I took this shot two years ago, and obviously it was more focused on the remarkable lilac gestalt with the house than the house itsel...


June 11, 2015

Carlo on the Case

Both literally and figuratively. Detective Carlo D. Cat is draped over my roomy work laptop bag in the hopes of identifying the person most likely to feed him next by thwarting my anticipated de...


This is close up detail on the house that was moved and restored to the place where the Psychedelic Supermarket was, I found out that the original store that became the local forward thinking ch...


June 07, 2015

The Merchants of Warm

“The people with whom you share the suffering of sudden growth are linked in magical ways, and these can be the people who really know you best.” — Jon Adams This is the iconic house in the litt...


This is the upper stairway for the VA Steps. All 145 of them. It is this grand stairway through a forested hill with this split into two circular stairs (one of which I show here that ends in… y...


June 05, 2015

Keeping it Simple

This house is on a steep hill and the fence is built at that angle. This is one view of a very nice yard sculpture. The folks that literally live above me can afford to buy art and they do. Ther...


So for those of you who don’t have raccoons here is a not very good picture of my intruder the other morning. For those of you all too familiar with their wily ways you can admire the greenery i...


I took this last Sunday on my walk. I thought the buttery roses were pretty, plain and simple. If the wind is blowing the right way it smells like roses out there. There was a huge evening cele...


May 28, 2015

All About the Body

I have heard a couple of things about these public stairs I took this picture of Sunday morning. There are 203 of them. One story is that at one point there was a street here but it was too stee...


This morning, because I could, I grabbed my camera and went in search of easy access to “The Elevator Stairs”. I tried to follow the route that S. and I took last month from the top of them up ...


I picked up my antibiotics last night. I have to take them for 17 days starting next Thursday and am not allowed to drink alcohol for the duration including a few days before and after. I am gla...


May 21, 2015

Right Effort

I shot this because I thought the composition of the yard and the dappled light were nice. After putting up picture after picture of pretty flowers over on Facebook the other day I put up a pict...


Wow, I feel like I have been away on a journey. My yoga teacher Olga’s teacher Gary Kraftsow was in town over the weekend on pretty short notice. The workshop information was quite confusing an...


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