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The Ever So Fragile Sense of Safety in Everyday Ramblings
Our last sunset at the beach this trip. Sigh. So after my encounter with the screaming indignant woman two weeks ago I have been thinking a lot about my neighborhood and the changes happening he...
No Keys, No Earrings, and No Bra in Everyday Ramblings
This was yesterday morning. We had a full spectrum of weather for our three days and change at the beach. Today it was sunny and warm and the beach was significantly more crowded than it is in t...
Happy Eyes in Everyday Ramblings
Thursday I went to the eye doctor for a check-in to make sure my eye had healed well after Diego scratched it months ago. I had asked the wonderful funny doctor, an associate professor I met the...
Thirty Eight Hours Down in Everyday Ramblings
This is the Terwilliger Lilac Garden. I had walked by it on Sunday with just my phone and smelled the heavenly scent so I went back yesterday midday with my camera. The light was pretty intense ...
New and Different in Everyday Ramblings
As we normally now have so little light I find it a challenge to get pictures of the birds I see with any of the cameras I have so I was thrilled to get a relatively decent shot of this handsome...
Large Predators and Angry Humans in Everyday Ramblings
Once again in attempt to capture the white of the rhododendrons that surround my living area I got creative and went out just after dawn yesterday to a bush that must have been bought from the s...
The Right White (To get a decent shot) in Everyday Ramblings
Today it is overcast and on the cool side, one still needs a coat even though the UV is strong enough with the glare to fully darken the transitional lens on my glasses the minute I step out the...
March Showers Brought June Flowers in Everyday Ramblings
This was a couple of days ago a couple of blocks away. It is not like that now; it is bone chillingly damp and overcast out with rain due in a few hours. I’ll be out in it as I have a dental ap...
Next Up on the Flower Clock in Everyday Ramblings
I went out walking midday on Friday with the camera. It is rhododendron on the flower clock (and wild poppy). Blooming white flowers, delicate and almost impossible to photograph well, (at least...
A Door, An Insight and Warming Light in Everyday Ramblings
This is without a doubt the year of the tulip here. And look… light! Precious heart warming light. I learned last night at my last Bhagavad Gita class, or relearned, that Guru means remover of ...
Noko, Color Whore in Everyday Ramblings
As you can see it is lilac time on the flower clock out there. I am not sure why this house is pink but I think there might be a Mary Kay cosmetics connection. There is a pink smart car that u...
No Special Treatment in Everyday Ramblings
Is the light here not gorgeous? Oh, spring, I earned you this year! So say we all, at least those of us in sodden weed land. No one has had a break long enough and at the right times in the rain...
A Target in Motion With Tulips in Everyday Ramblings
We had the most stunningly beautiful afternoon here yesterday. It was warm, it was dry; it was fragrant. I went out for my neighborhood walk just after I logged out of work, phone camera in hand...
Big Scare and Bigger Reprieve in Everyday Ramblings
Compared to what is going on out there in the world this is a small thing but it has been taking up a lot of mental space for me over the last few days. On Saturday morning early after I got ou...
In Whatever Form in Everyday Ramblings
Belated Happy Easter! Although we had rain and sun and wind and hail and big dramatic skies it has been a lovely day. I saw a family of lesser scaups, a small black and white diving duck, Ayth...
Throwback Thursday Mixed Tapes in Everyday Ramblings
This is around the corner. It is still raining…they say until Monday. The bricks are the foundation of the old smithy part of the stables that were here. The two old men that have an office in ...
Pondering the Need for Hope on a Grim Day in Everyday Ramblings
This garden path on a steep hillside up behind where I live seemed appropriate on this difficult day for the whole world with yet more brutal carnage in a place once considered safe and civiliz...
She Says Determinedly in Everyday Ramblings
After a few years of flowers blooming alarmingly early, this year we are back to what in my lifetime is a more normal schedule. Last year this time these tulips were open and quite plentiful. T...
Gentleman, Please! in Everyday Ramblings
The other day on the bus I saw a fairly burly guy wearing loose beige cargo shorts with what looked like black long john leggings underneath and short hiking boots. Really? I know you want to b...
Big Excitement...Not in Everyday Ramblings
The tulip trees (that is what we call them here) are blooming and after 21 straight days of rain the sun is out and the ground (in patches) is dry! It is gorgeous and there is a bunch of happy ...
Jasmine on the Flower Clock in Everyday Ramblings
We should start seeing the first early irises soon. There is a most chattered about rumor going around that we might get a three-day break in the rain starting tomorrow sometime. Saint Joe is t...
Nudging Up Against the Political - Eek in Everyday Ramblings
Have I mentioned it is raining? Yeah, yeah, I know, it is not as bad as the flooding that is going on in Louisiana and Texas. My heart goes out to those folks experiencing flooding for the firs...
Neutralizing the Evil Empire? in Everyday Ramblings
This is another view of the small Parks Department community garden at the end of my neighborhood. What I like about this picture is the light in the foreground. Well, it is home territory too ...
Seemingly Ordinary in Everyday Ramblings
We are in a blustery changeable very dramatic weather period but on Saturday morning while waiting for S and Frieda down by the river we had a moment where the sun broke through the clouds and ...
Specialty Cats and Dental Hygeine in Everyday Ramblings
When I went to visit Kes last weekend she shared with me their most recent distraction (when they aren’t doing the mini-crosswords). It is an app, a game for girls and cat lovers called Neko At...
