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This is a hybridized crape myrtle in my neighborhood. They have been introduced here in Oregon relatively recently and add such a wonderful stroke of color to our late summer landscape. I didn’t...

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I am writing this on my laptop. Remember my laptop? I am slowly moving everything back on it where all my pictures have been restored. This gorgeous faded hollyhock is from this time last year. ...

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I am sad to say that none of the pictures I took on our hike in the gorge last week were standouts but this gives you a feel for part of the trail and the footing. The air in there was just wond...

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I took this last Monday morning and it is all about the light on this somewhat past its prime hydrangea. I had taken the morning off from work to go across town to sub a yoga class and I had a l...

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Earlier this year, when things were so troubling with my oldest sister’s health and all of our available emotional and financial resources focused towards her the idea was presented to me that m...

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See the big moss covered tree to the left in this shot I took last April? Well over 100 years old and huge. It was a big part of the landscape of the block I live on. They took it down yester...

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We are at high fire risk right now. Heat lightning and dry hot air. Yesterday it was almost 100 F (37C) and like a blast furnace midday. It could be worse, there could be wind. We’ve had that r...

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It is melting hot out there and so hazy with particulate matter from the fires you would never know we have a couple of pretty gorgeous mountains nearby. Even though one of them is missing her ...

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This is the meadow we walked through last Sunday. The Osprey nest is out of the frame but out in the open on a platform built on a pole. The river is on the left behind the trees. The first t...

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It is true, I do, on occasion, take pictures of things other than flowers. :) This is the view yesterday from the train leaving downtown Portland just coming off our Steel Bridge. I love all ...

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This pear tree is behind my place and I snapped this with my phone yesterday morning on my way back from training a scientist (I have been working with him for years) how to use my new forms. ...

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I keep listening for the orange guy. I was doing it in my sleep last night and had a restless time of it. I had absolutely no idea how much time and energy and focus was going into this 12-pou...

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Sam and Mr. Finch. They are together again. It was very hard to decide but he went peacefully surrounded by so much love and gentle care. I am sure it is just my imagination but I felt Mr. F...

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This is such a traditionally “pretty” shot I took this morning I decided to use a traditional sort of frame. At some point, when I get the super abundance of technology going on in my rooms und...

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Before I moved here I had no idea what artichokes look like when they go to seed even though I spent a big chunk of my life living in California. I took this a few days ago. It is of a Waldorf ...

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This is a late hollyhock in another garden. They bloom and fade so fast! The light is changing, the trees are starting, just starting to turn and this morning we had a soaking rain. Not enough ...

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I took this picture this afternoon with my camera! Wow. All consuming adventures in technology. But I am pretty much fully operational again. I had to bring back some things I offloaded to my ...

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I know this is a little dark but it was the best I could do with the iPad camera up at the lookout point near The Chart House on my 8K loop on Terwilliger Boulevard yesterday evening. I've take...

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This is only a test. :) Took this glare filled garden shot lat night with my iPad mini. I have no clue at this point how to size photos using the Photobucket iPad app. Still can't use my camera...

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My beloved four year old MacBook Pro experienced a fatal error this afternoon and my hard drive is no longer viable. It will be a little while before I am fully operational and can post here with...

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All the flowers in this hill front garden are leaning left towards the sun. Right now it is warm, hazy and, sadly, humid. I love the warmth of summer, long for it the rest of the year. But I fo...

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It is most definitely lily time here. I did see a gladiola just starting to bloom day before yesterday but didn’t have my camera and they are hard to capture anyway but sure come in those beaut...

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Either squash or pumpkin flowers here in a local garden this week. I saw my first dahlias of the year in a garden on Wednesday. Moving ever so slightly towards fall here on the flower clock. Th...

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It is warm and dry. Both unusual for the 4th of July holiday here in Portland. It was lovely early and that is even more rare. I enjoyed my time out on the track. It will be hazy for the bigg...

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I so enjoy exuberant slightly overgrown gardens. For me this turn towards the 4th of July and high summer means the turn towards the darker side of the year as my world gets warm and we enter o...

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