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A Break in the Action? in Everyday Ramblings
I just looked at a weather map of the United States and we are basically the only place not having summer. We have gloomy warmish glare but soon it will clear, they are saying later tonight or t...
Narwhal of the Plant Kingdom? in Everyday Ramblings
I took this Saturday morning out in the drizzle. The lilies are coming on. Yesterday I listened to an interview with a National Geographic photographer who specializes in the Arctic and the Ant...
A New Rabbit Hole, With Trees in Everyday Ramblings
We went for a 3½ mile walk in an intermittent drizzle partially in the neighborhood I used to live in this morning. Frida was full of energy even though we let her run a couple of times. She is ...
Getting Out My Hardhat and Constructing a New Reality in Everyday Ramblings
We had a break in the rain in the evening yesterday and instead of doing something practical like going to the grocery or the gym I went out with my headphones and my camera phone and wandered a...
Gray and Grey in All Sorts of Ways in Everyday Ramblings
It is quite hazy out here now and we are supposed to cloud up this afternoon and stay that way for over a week. That is a typical weather pattern here for June. I suspect that after our endless ...
From a Walk to a Trot in Everyday Ramblings
It is all about the color for me, experiencing color. And this late iris I shot yesterday just seems perfect. My inner pony and I did get out on the track on Saturday…and yesterday…and um, this...
The Pent Up Heart in Everyday Ramblings
It is overcast and Saturday here. I appreciate the weekends in such a deep way these days. It is just past noon and I have been to my Weight Watchers meeting, the Farmers Market, walked 6.27 mil...
A Little More Feet, an Awful Moment and Hope in Everyday Ramblings
It has been mostly overcast and cooler, a more typical June weather pattern for us that makes the flower colors pop in the gloom. This is the quote about shoes from the Dynamic Aging book… “Clo...
A Rose, A Meditation and Well...Feet in Everyday Ramblings
Kes was up Sunday helping her best friend sort and unpack some things she brought home from her father’s house in Toronto after his death last year. The friend has just completed an intensive re...
Poppies, A Light in the Heart and 65,000 Thoughts in Everyday Ramblings
From a little walk this morning, it is, after all, Memorial Day here in the States. Flanders Fields and all that… We are still pretty shaken up by the events here last Friday, with the racially ...
Yep, Sad to Say... in Everyday Ramblings
So yes, we made international news here in our barbarity. We get warmth and sunshine and a shirtless white supremacist goes berserk on a light rail train hurling insults at two young women that ...
For Us All in Everyday Ramblings
Yeah yeah I know this is kind of blurry and a bit of a mess but I love these dark orange brownish black irises and it is hard to get a decent shot based on where they are located on the hill acr...
All Fall Down in Everyday Ramblings
There are just a few days each year to capture the roses in the right light. I am grateful to be able to have been out with a camera for them at least here in my neighborhood. Everywhere there i...
The Pot, The Kettle (and a Columbine) in Everyday Ramblings
The columbines are mostly battered by the weather this year so I was happy to get a relatively decent shot of one this morning on the way back from my Weight Watcher’s meeting. I did have one s...
Moving Towards Mindful? I Hope So in Everyday Ramblings
I took this on my way into the office yesterday morning as we were beginning to get a break in the oppressive overcast we have been living under for what seems like forever. We did have a break ...
Reflections on the Ripples of a Personal Struggle in Everyday Ramblings
It is coming on Rose on the flower clock here. (I am happy with this picture I took yesterday midday, as roses are hard to get right.) I have mixed feelings about this. Spring is banging into su...
A Harmony of Mixed Elements in Everyday Ramblings
I hope you are able to get out into your gardens no matter where you are or what season it is… I love the irises here this year, again, the varieties more delicate than before. In the days befo...
A Relaxed Day Off in Everyday Ramblings
Wow, the princess thing worked in my case yesterday. My prescriptions were ready at the pharmacy before the procedure so I was able to get an antibiotic in before we started and able to come str...
Not Bad for a Princess in Everyday Ramblings
Our last beautiful spring day before the rains, the gloom and cool temperatures return. I want to savor it. That was yesterday. I did savor it. Now it is cool and overcast and damp. Everybody w...
There Goes the Rug in Everyday Ramblings
It is not raining! It hasn’t rained in over two days! It will start raining again on Thursday and then probably rain until July but at least we have had a break. The cats are moving from patch o...
Iris, Sugar Snap Peas and Privilege in Everyday Ramblings
Plantings on the Portland State campus on this last Friday evening. There is so much happening on the flower clock right now. We have a little ever-changing quiz on our main info page at work th...
No Time Like the Present in Everyday Ramblings
The pink dogwoods are particularly gorgeous this year. It may have something to do with the gray mist, glare and fog we have had that make them stand out or it could be, like with the iris a cou...
Keep Calm... and Burning Down the House in Everyday Ramblings
The lilac garden yesterday at noon. It was gloomy and misty but that brings out the colors in the flowers. Yesterday was the annual May Day celebration at the park nearby with all the kids and ...
Outrage and Naps in Everyday Ramblings
This blooming tree is so pretty when the light hits it. Today we have some intense glare but I am wearing sunblock anyway. The five days without rain are not going to materialize. We had rain l...
My Arduous Commute in Everyday Ramblings
I took this on Wednesday on my way home from class. It is also my arduous commute to and from the office, all 2 ½ blocks of it. I look forward to these trees blossoming out each year creating th...
