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The Importance of Books in Everyday Ramblings
This is Tad’s house. He is the artist that wrote the electronic book on South Portland that I have been drawing a lot of material from on my “project”. While I was working on my poem this week ...
No rain yet. It looked like maybe we would get some yesterday but now they are saying more dry weather but at least the temperatures are moderate, not nauseatingly blast furnace hot like we had ...
A Brief Break in the Action in Everyday Ramblings
Here is another house portrait. A quiet woman, in her fifties with a small dog that does not like cats lives here. My impression is that she is a widow. I don’t know why, she seems complete in a...
Beloved and Brave (with some ritual draining of Blood) in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday evening after returning from Salem where I spent an easy relaxing day with Kes and Most Honorable I still needed some activity so even though it was hot (we are ready for a break now t...
A Surreal Scare and an Indulgence in Everyday Ramblings
This is a detail on the garage of a house around the corner. The house was built for one woman and then the house next door, which is almost identical, were occupied at one point by a woman in o...
Title: I took this yesterday out in the neighborhood. Like everywhere else we are having unusual weather, it has been dry hot and muggy and Sunday was a particularly miserable example of that ...
Racoons, Party of Five in Everyday Ramblings
Title: I like this picture of some almost hidden architectural detail of a porch in my neighborhood. It is interesting now after seven years of wandering around with some sort of device that co...
Op Art Dresses and the Corrupt Mayor in Everyday Ramblings
So this is the mimosa tree I mentioned recently. I found another smaller one across the property two lots down to make four altogether. I am most curious about these trees. This is the house Ear...
Decluttering the Worry Table in Everyday Ramblings
Not the castle house but detail of another one up there in the same area. As I (and my family) have been reading more about bottle diggers and how they find sites I realized that I could go to ...
Old Glass in Everyday Ramblings
This is some detail of the castle house from our walk on Thursday. I like to imagine being the kind of person that would live here. Confident and quirky, well off and creative, young and terrib...
A Breakthrough (With Elevation Gain) in Everyday Ramblings
Out and about this morning I took this with my phone that is why the sizing is a bit off. The best gift I could possibly imagine for my birthday was having not just the day off but this whole we...
The Mystery Shifts Focus in Everyday Ramblings
There is something about the mash up of green colors, textures and the way the petals of the flower are spread out, almost a sense of movement here that I like. This is over by the track, the pl...
A Slightly Embarrassing Accomplishment in Everyday Ramblings
This time last year we had just arrived here at the wonderful cabins on the Metolious River. The only time in three years I’ve been somewhere where we didn’t have reliable Internet access. I kno...
A House, A Set of Values and a Modest Trot in Everyday Ramblings
The house on the right is the house that burned in the back. I took this shot two years ago, and obviously it was more focused on the remarkable lilac gestalt with the house than the house itsel...
Carlo on the Case in Everyday Ramblings
Both literally and figuratively. Detective Carlo D. Cat is draped over my roomy work laptop bag in the hopes of identifying the person most likely to feed him next by thwarting my anticipated de...
Hammered Home and Storytelling in Everyday Ramblings
This is close up detail on the house that was moved and restored to the place where the Psychedelic Supermarket was, I found out that the original store that became the local forward thinking ch...
The Merchants of Warm in Everyday Ramblings
“The people with whom you share the suffering of sudden growth are linked in magical ways, and these can be the people who really know you best.” — Jon Adams This is the iconic house in the litt...
Jane’s Famous House of Prostitution in Everyday Ramblings
This is the upper stairway for the VA Steps. All 145 of them. It is this grand stairway through a forested hill with this split into two circular stairs (one of which I show here that ends in… y...
Keeping it Simple in Everyday Ramblings
This house is on a steep hill and the fence is built at that angle. This is one view of a very nice yard sculpture. The folks that literally live above me can afford to buy art and they do. Ther...
Toast… My Kingdom for a Piece of Toast in Everyday Ramblings
So for those of you who don’t have raccoons here is a not very good picture of my intruder the other morning. For those of you all too familiar with their wily ways you can admire the greenery i...
Wild Animals and Hedonistic Folly in Everyday Ramblings
I took this last Sunday on my walk. I thought the buttery roses were pretty, plain and simple. If the wind is blowing the right way it smells like roses out there. There was a huge evening cele...
All About the Body in Everyday Ramblings
I have heard a couple of things about these public stairs I took this picture of Sunday morning. There are 203 of them. One story is that at one point there was a street here but it was too stee...
Impromptu History Lesson in Everyday Ramblings
This morning, because I could, I grabbed my camera and went in search of easy access to “The Elevator Stairs”. I tried to follow the route that S. and I took last month from the top of them up ...
Wily Paws and Circles of Connection in Everyday Ramblings
I picked up my antibiotics last night. I have to take them for 17 days starting next Thursday and am not allowed to drink alcohol for the duration including a few days before and after. I am gla...
Right Effort in Everyday Ramblings
I shot this because I thought the composition of the yard and the dappled light were nice. After putting up picture after picture of pretty flowers over on Facebook the other day I put up a pict...
