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Almost
Like many of you we are having W-E-A-T-H-E-R. What exactly is the difference between freezing rain and sleet? They make a different sound? Sleet is slick and sleek? My Dante class was canceled s...
Forces of Nature
Once when I was about 17 I went on this ill-fated camping trip with a roommate couple and a guy I didn’t know and my beloved Great Dane, Lucy. I was living independently by then and thought I wa...
Kitty Proofing the Homestead
Yesterday morning I went to the farmers market up on the Portland State campus and discovered that the fall market starts at 9 AM, instead of the half hour earlier start in spring and summer. Lu...
Close in on Happy Things
It is not raining! Really. Oh my, it feels like Christmas to have a break in the ever- present gloom and dark damp. The picture is from last weekend taken with my phone of the giant clump of tan...
Pinky and the Relative Calm
Title: I took this Saturday afternoon. It looks like pretty much the standard beautiful Oregon Coast empty beach scene but what is remarkable is the blue sky. In November! We had a mixed weathe...
Not Spooky at All
Ah. I am here. Okay. It is still dark (because it seems like it is dark all the time now) here on this time change weekend but I am out at our semi-annual coast getaway where I took this picture...
Texture and Shape in Puddle Town
There was a break in the endless ongoing rain yesterday evening and the light was gorgeous, like dream light for a photographer where every picture comes out well. As you all know by now I am mo...
Invading Armies and an Obscure Fact for the Day
This morning I woke up to the semi-annual invasion of sugar ants. I’ve had a manageable few for about a week and put out traps and sprayed my orange peel spay and rubbed petroleum jelly over the...
Certified!
This was my home away from home for four days this last weekend. This pavilion is actually quite beautiful inside, full of gorgeous wood and light, when there was light. I am now certified to t...
Hot Chocolate, Love Handles and Chopin
I am in a slightly melancholy place as autumn comes on that is a perfect match for Chopin’s music and a big mug of hot chocolate. So far I have managed to not indulge in the chocolate part but i...
Autumn Light
When I was doing all the prep for the Caregivers Gentle Movement and Relaxation class on the pediatric oncology unit I teach on Tuesdays, I mentioned to the coordinator something about how I kne...
Gorgeous Backs, Guys
We, like many of you on both sides of the equator, had a gorgeous day yesterday. The air was clearer than I can remember it being this year and the mountain views stunning. I went for a long wal...
Mission Accomplished
I know it is particularly American of me to love the working of time on man-made things but I do. This is a defunct fountain pool in front of a mansion we walked by in Salem last weekend. Except...
Moving On (with Dahlia)
The flower clock is a few weeks behind us down in Salem and the dahlias are at their prime there now. Not a doubt with the cooler longer nights and the rain that our three-month idyll with warm ...
Shared Concerns and Cool Whip
After heavy overcast and marine air we had some clearing yesterday afternoon and it was a mild almost clear fall day out today. Kes and I took a trail in their park by the river we had never bee...
The Siren Call
I just passed by this tree about 15 minutes ago on the way back from getting my flu shot and even though I took this picture last weekend it looks the same, crabapples, wild tart apples. Not a l...
Courage and Resolve
This park, which is across the big street from where I live, (and part of the track complex over there) is named after the first woman to register to vote in Oregon in 1912 when we were granted ...
The Startle Response
Happy Equinox! It was a beautiful (if hazy) day here. The whole darn weekend was beautiful. I was out in it a lot. Probably not wearing as much sunblock as I should. I forget sometimes to put it...
Better to be Better
My energy is still a little on the punky side but I navigated a full and active day yesterday for the first time this week and it was a joy. I had a training to give up on the hill and that is o...
Home Invasion
I am always on the lookout for interesting tree textures and colors and I enjoy taking pictures in the neighborhood to pinpoint the season and the light. This was Sunday. There was an underlying...
First Chestnut
“If you pay attention to which weeds proliferate, the soil will tell you what it needs. The presence of chicory or wild carrot or the lovely Queen Anne’s lace means the soil is low in fertility,...
My Lucky Day
Autumn crocuses are popping up around town. What I like about this particular shot of them is the dirt. There is potential there. That is what I feel right now about my life, if I can stay healt...
The Heart that Softens as it Constricts
I took this whimsical picture in 2009 just this time of year wandering around the old neighborhood with an old camera. For some reason it spoke to me in terms of those times we find ourselves un...
Many Points of View
Other than the dramatic monsoon we had last Saturday afternoon it has been dry here for weeks. I thought this picture captured that but also the late light. My own birdbath has been filled every...
The Knife Inside
I want to address the line in my previous post about being a real poet that my have brought you up short. I didn’t say this to her, the woman I am working with. I just thought it. I would like t...
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What flits through at a particular time.
