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A New Focus on Energetic Resources in Everyday Ramblings
I took this Saturday morning out in the fiercely cold East wind that brought the snow. Even though I had gloves on I was only able to take a few pictures before my hands started going numb. I am...
Still Handsome in the Deep Freeze in Everyday Ramblings
Finally a picture of Carlo that does his good looks justice! We are spending a lot of time together, the cats and me, because after we had gorgeous relaxing snow day on Sunday, no surprise, we h...
Hello Snow in Everyday Ramblings
This is my birdbath. I bring it in and clean it every morning before I fill it. That is my coat rack to the left and Carlo to the right. The forecast was for “mixed precipitation”. Umm, nothing ...
Harmony, Affection, Friendship in Everyday Ramblings
For those of you who have proper winters we must seem like such wimps here but it was cold last night at midnight for the First Run 5K! With a wind that on the Beaufort Wind Scale comes in at a ...
Good Bye to All That in Everyday Ramblings
We wanted to get a walk in on Saturday and we decided to walk over to the Pioneer Cemetery and then the adjacent more modern one near Kes and Most Honorable’s house. It is a lovely peaceful plac...
Fast Forward the Flower Clock in Everyday Ramblings
This shot so perfectly represents most of the day I spent in the mid Willamette Valley where there was fog and hazy sun and then clouds but no rain! It didn’t rain yesterday either. On the train...
The Christmas Princess Syndrome in Everyday Ramblings
Well we broke the record for most rainfall in one month since they started recording rainfall here. It has rained every day this month. Hence the bleak picture. I know, it is Christmas, and it ...
Holiday Sundry in Everyday Ramblings
Someone in the neighborhood hung Christmas ornaments from each of the dim light fixtures is the scary curved pedestrian tunnel that is a graffiti magnet and a garland at each end too. It made me...
Beginning To Feel A Lot Like... in Everyday Ramblings
May The Force Be With You. :) It rained hard all darn day yesterday. Cold splat in your face you don’t want to be out in that rain. A bunch of the tributaries to our two bigger rivers hit flood ...
On the Other Hand... in Everyday Ramblings
It must be a complete accident that Carlo is standing on my MacBook looking at me with concern. I took this a few minutes before I was able to clock out from work this afternoon. He does somethi...
The Pleasures of Reading in Everyday Ramblings
I took this out at Sauvie Island on a birding trip this time of year a few years back. It matches the current mood here though there is a rumor that it might not rain tomorrow. It has only been ...
Je Suis Canadian in Everyday Ramblings
Have I mentioned it is raining? Man is it raining. I managed to be out in it today and walked six miles without getting anything that mattered wet. Who knew you could operate your phone while i...
Expanded Rain Protocol in Everyday Ramblings
We are having WEATHER here. On Monday midday I sort of idiotically chose to walk home from the studio not realizing how hard the wind was blowing the rain. I had on what I call my rain protocol...
A Thousand Crows in Everyday Ramblings
Yep. I know this shot I took today of our Central Library is blurry. That is because there is not much light here… even midday. Glare, we have plenty of glare; I’d be happy to share… really. Hey...
Totally Zonked in Everyday Ramblings
This is an arrangement in stone in front the artist/historian’s house I was chatting with last week. Everything on his property is artfully arranged. When I was talking to him he was digging out...
Mission Accomplished in Everyday Ramblings
Early Sunday I received a text from S. that she still wasn’t feeling up for a walk and said she hoped to see me in my public class Monday. I was disappointed as I was going to meet her at church...
Miss Wo Wo Makes A Stand in Everyday Ramblings
It is cold here. There is a heated cat bed wrapped up in that towel. Carlo has made a tent under it. Unlike his brother; Carlo does not have a heavy undercoat. He can hang out there and look out...
Tempus Fugit in Everyday Ramblings
This is right next to the Hawthorne Bridge on the beginning of the East bank Esplanade. There is a new fire house and rescue boat launch here but it is also a lively meeting place for skateboard...
Variations on a Sun Theme in Everyday Ramblings
Our weather pattern is certainly changing. We have heavy rain for a few days and then we have gorgeous cold days where the low sun comes in under the leaves of the huge historic copper beech up ...
Wah! in Everyday Ramblings
An urban scene here, this is the courtyard at the Portland Art Museum. I walk by here a number of times a week, including last night. The trees are spectacular even as we turn towards winter. Af...
The Magic Word and an Extravagance of Finches in Everyday Ramblings
We are coming out of a handful of very wet days. We need the rain and I am not complaining but the dark and blowing splat in the face rain has felt, well, effortful. I have what I call my “rain...
I Would if I Could in Everyday Ramblings
I am typing this on my laptop, my poor old refurbished laptop, with a cat curled up against each hip. The boys just completed the after dinner snack bath ritual. We like routine around here, app...
From the Land of Towels in Everyday Ramblings
It is one of these days here, low light, damp and almost dark even though the clock says it is before noon. Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of when I brought these handsome rascals home wi...
A Challenge, But in a Good Way in Everyday Ramblings
We are going through the last gasp of fall here with most of the trees either bare or much denuded of leaves but every once in a while there is a pocket of colorful beauty. It has been a wet mes...
Safety in Numbers in Everyday Ramblings
So Sunday morning the sun sort of came out just after dawn and our time change and I put on all my raingear and went out on the beach for a walk. It was the first blue sky we had seen all weeken...
