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Orange Things in Everyday Ramblings
Quince. We have had a few bright clear and cold days lately. Today is not one of them. Rain is on its way back in and it is gloomy and warmer. We need the rain. The red rhododendrons outside my...
Margaret Atwood Says it All in Everyday Ramblings
I read this to my class this morning… It helped me get some perspective. The Loneliness of the Military Historian Confess: it’s my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to din...
Brave New World? in Everyday Ramblings
Occasionally, I nail a shot that I am happy with. One that matches what I am seeing. This is one of those. The Willamette River this morning from the new Sellwood bridge. Walking over it today ...
Candied Hearts and Factory Roses in Everyday Ramblings
Having done my (blessedly annual now) full body skin check last year under Covid protocols it was easier this year. And the gown they gave me was warm. The only issue was a spot on my forehead ...
I'll Take It in Everyday Ramblings
Today I saw the first open daffodil of the year as I was out on a walk. This shot is from this morning in the neighborhood. I’d say the flower clock is officially open now for the season. This ...
What Behooves Us in Everyday Ramblings
Our version of snowdrops. The black grass is popular here. I have a busy week ahead so I am hoping I can rest and restore my vital energy for being out and about more than usual. I have a foll...
Willing to Do Things I Am Not Good At in Everyday Ramblings
Frost in the lilac garden this week. We had a peak time event yesterday from 8 to 11 AM, where the power company encourages you to defer using energy and gives you a rebate for any reduction in...
Not So Fast Sweetheart in Everyday Ramblings
Pretty hellebores from yesterday. Mr. Sherlock slipped on the rain-soaked ground Wednesday late afternoon shooing their one remaining chicken Hilda into the coop. He hit his head. There was a ...
Who and How in Everyday Ramblings
A neighborhood cottage. I love the detail here. It is raining. Not hard, no drama, just plain endless seeming rain. It is dark. It is cold, the dog days of winter even though spring is thrummi...
Scottish All the Way Down in Everyday Ramblings
Mt. St. Helen’s at sunrise. Lately, I am not sure why exactly, but I have been doing a Scottish immersion. Initially it was the first book in the Outlander series in audiobook format, so I am ...
A Country Run By Cat Ladies? in Everyday Ramblings
Look at the light! The angle, so low, of the sun, just up over the foothills to the southeast yesterday morning. You have seen pictures from here before, it is a small park area about a mile up...
Diving in Headfirst in Everyday Ramblings
It finally stopped raining yesterday afternoon and I was able to get out and stroll around the neighborhood, after the snow and endless rain it is a boon to be able to just go outside. There ar...
A Little Unsettled, A Little Dark in Everyday Ramblings
The “other” community garden on New Year’s Day. Soon, soon the surrounding fence will be ringed with daffodils. The snow is gone and now we are under a flood watch. It is above freezing and wil...
Sharp Claws and The Thing With Feathers in Everyday Ramblings
The park across the street Tuesday morning. There is a bit less snow and quite a bit more ice over there now as we hit the lowest temperature of this weather event early this morning. This hill...
A Different Kind of Lockdown in Everyday Ramblings
Out front yesterday morning. It looks the same now after it all melted and then came back overnight. We are in for the deep freeze for at least 5 days. We have warming shelters set up all over ...
Deliveries in Everyday Ramblings
We are having this little break in the bad weather, and we had some sun today, distant but blue skies. Mrs. Sherlock forgot Frieda’s harness, so she came over here and got me and we stopped bac...
Let's Not Forget in Everyday Ramblings
Vincent van Gogh — ‘Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and we obey them without realizing it.’ I can happily say that my emotions are a little less d...
The Blues in Everyday Ramblings
The lilac garden in all its late fall glory. There is a beauty here too. Our grocery store workers are going on strike tomorrow. It will be crazy today, but I will go down and get what I can. ...
There You Go in Everyday Ramblings
A young Crepe Myrtle in the neighborhood yesterday. There are two girls that live here, maybe 7 and 9 with their mom. That may be reflected in the level the ornaments are hung. Walking after th...
Really? An Apology? in Everyday Ramblings
Not to dwell on the past, but remember my job? The one I was basically forced out of while my tall young inexperienced blond male cohort got promoted above me with a larger salary. Yeah, that o...
My Kind of Decorations in Everyday Ramblings
Good news, Carlo’s labs came back normal. Diego’s are too. So much so that I get to stop giving him a B-12 shot every other week and only do it monthly. It takes about three minutes and is no b...
Cookies and Counters and... in Everyday Ramblings
Not getting many pictures these transitional days. We went from weirdly warm to burr cold in the middle of one day. This is the lilac garden on this day 5 years ago. I wanted to put up a shot o...
A Chorus of Knitters in Everyday Ramblings
Other than a picture of Diego, this is the first picture I took on the first outing with the new phone. Walking to the grocery on Tuesday. Very November, which can’t be over soon enough as far ...
"Nose" Day in Everyday Ramblings
From yesterday, this picture reminds me a bit of those old colored postcards from the black and white days. This is a shot of Willamette Falls from an older train car. It is an amazing natural ...
Knees and the Thanksgiving Doldrums in Everyday Ramblings
A house at the top of some public stairs on my walk in the fog this morning. Someone with lovely taste lives here. And so does history. Those ferns have been in that retaining wall for some tim...
