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Not the greatest picture but you go with what you’ve got. This is the kitchen window of a small house with a kitchen pretty close to the sidewalk. The back of the house hangs over a hill and has...


Thursday night I realized I had not been out since midday Monday except to take out the garbage and get the mail. Whoa. There was a break in the rain and so I geared up at sunrise to get out and...


Welcome to my yoga studio, aka the living area in the apartment I have now been in for 12 years. When I teach, it is right next to this area, the rug was a bit cleaner back then. Now, of course ...


December 05, 2020

Discombobulation in Everyday Ramblings

A much much better walk with the crew today. We saw the mountains and got up close and personal with the river. It was cold, but not too cold and I am so glad to have been able to get out as we ...


We are getting the weather formerly know as San Francisco weather. Dense heavy fog in the mornings burning off to bright cool afternoons. If you look center right, you can see Mt. Hood. This is ...


November 29, 2020

Mentioning Things in Everyday Ramblings

This was Friday, we had sun, obviously, in the afternoon. All the post-Thanksgiving family units were out and about when I managed to get out myself. This is an area of sidewalk next to a distin...


November 27, 2020

Grist in Everyday Ramblings

Ah, with Thanksgiving over one’s thoughts turn to the end of year holidays. All those marvelous sparkly lights to compensate for the starkness outside, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. ...


On the off chance you might not be aware of what season it is here; the fog and leaf litter are a bit of a giveaway. This was from a delightful walk with Mrs. Sherlock, Frieda, and Charity on Sa...


Finally, a break in the rain. This morning it was clear enough to see a few stars then a dense fog moved in and now it is clearing again. Although the trees are almost barren and it is cold, we ...


Is that not cool, hidden in the word intermittently is a mitten? Which is kind of where we are headed in the wet overwhelming dark of the transition from fall to winter. Not that I am counting ...


The Willamette river up close and personal on Wednesday. So much attention has gone to Diego over the last six months and Carlo has been due for a booster shot and check-up so that was the focu...


This is from an early morning trek yesterday to the grocery store. The low light was fabulous. Just before I get to the big busy street there is this wooded area I walk through with a meandering...


A couple of wow it has been a long time events today. Even though yet again our case rates are higher than they have ever been. I took the bus both to and from the grocery store like I used to i...


November 01, 2020

Wishful Thinking? in Everyday Ramblings

7 weeks until the solstice! Good for us but not so good for fire danger oh say in Australia. The picture is a broad median over near Reed College that Mrs. Sherlock, Frieda and I walked yesterd...


Back in the real world. It is cold here. That will put a bit of a damper on street protests but not voting, I hope. I am trying to hold hope as a sister state of mind during this difficult time...


Most likely by the time you read this we will be home. What a joy it has been to get away. Even for a few days. To look out different windows at different vistas. To feel and experience the fre...


Yes, for the first time ever here on Prosebox I used a filter on this photo. It was just a little too dark to represent the reality Mrs. Sherlock and I saw on our walk Saturday. I have never see...


There were no cancer cells in Diego’s biopsy. He does have something unusual going on in his pancreas and has thickening and inflammation in his intestines so the diagnosis for now is chronic Ir...


Still waiting to hear about Diego’s test. He had a hard day on Saturday but has been pretty happy since then. I have lived with sick cats before, but this is different, this chronic intermittent...


This unusual dahlia is blooming down in the closest community garden, the one I thought I was going to get a plot in. Maybe next year. Like some years are good iris years, this is a good year fo...


Yesterday I led Charity and Mrs. Sherlock on a walk to many of my favorite places in the neighborhood up behind where we live. I showed them the mystery house and the house with the tower and th...


September 29, 2020

Oohing and Aahing in Everyday Ramblings

The arbutus is fruiting. Now that I have identified them, I am finding them all over the place. This is the biggest oldest one I have seen here so far. When we walked on Sunday Charity wanted to...


September 26, 2020

Keep Sane? in Everyday Ramblings

This is a vine crawling over the fence surrounding one of the local community gardens this morning. The blue plums are ripening and the jujube fruit across the street. I haven’t seen any figs bu...


Because of the fires and smoke and not getting out as much lately, I am not taking as many photos as usual. I took this Monday on my way to the grocery. I enjoyed the walk, I enjoyed shopping on...


September 19, 2020

We’re Clear! in Everyday Ramblings

There is this cool map on this website called Purple Air that maps the air quality all over the world based on registered gauges spread around the globe. When you bring it up it shows air qualit...


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