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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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Sammy sure is spending a lot of time in his fort lately. But he is still coming out to snuggle and purr in his wheezy old man way. Wow, he just took his evening yowly toy back into his fort. He...

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It is hollyhock time on the flower clock. There is a gorgeous almost maroon one growing wild in the parking strip down at the end of the street where I go Walkies and I need to get out there wi...

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Even though it is summer, officially, now here in the Northern Hemisphere, the river was just full of new life. This is a mama Common Merganser and her ducklings. There were many family groups ...

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So I am leaving in about an hour for our adventure in a very nice cabin in the woods on the other side of the state for four days. It is my birthday and I am not going to take my computer wit...

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Last year on my birthday I took the day off from work and Most Honorable and I went hiking on a mixed-use trail built on an old railway line through the mountains that separate Portland from th...

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So Stanley is kind of sort of mostly gone. Somebody else is feeding her. Yesterday evening after I put my birdfeeders back up she thumped up on to my porch railing next to my seed feeder expect...

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I think she may be working me but I have most definitively been adopted. My guess is that she came to live in the neighborhood in one of the student households and still lives there but is thin...

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She’s still here. The tabby cat. I am calling her Stanley. If my fierce little protective gang girl Stella was still with us, she would be long gone. To say Stella was territorial would be a bi...

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The poppies continue to add a burst of color to the morning mist and gloom. And I have been practicing shots with this local batch. There is a famous American yoga teacher named Ana (Tiger) F...

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It is a good thing you all like flowers or you wouldn’t ever come visit my pages here during the spring. I just can’t help it. The light, the colors are irresistible. Thank you all for your s...

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I find myself taking pictures of this rose bush each year. It is a few blocks from here. Practice makes perfect. I love the light even though we are moving towards the solstice there is still a...

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This is something growing weed like a block up the street on the sidewalk side of the park. I stopped and looked at these delicate flowers a few nights ago and today I took the camera. After a...

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I took this with my phone this morning on my way to the charity 5K event. It was held at a park in an urban residential neighborhood full of lovely old homes and wonderful gardens. And memorie...

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The color is so close to true here on this slightly squashed rose and I love the shape of the petals. Oldest sister came home from the hospital yesterday afternoon. She is in a fair amount of...

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It is a holiday here in The States and I am so happy to have the day off. We all need down time and as I get a little older I find, just like many of you, I need to honor that more. But! My in...

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This is a local regular, a song sparrow. Handsome fellow. He just sat there yesterday and did not flit off and I was grateful to get his picture. These guys are always in motion. The sister is...

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