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It is warm and dry. Both unusual for the 4th of July holiday here in Portland. It was lovely early and that is even more rare. I enjoyed my time out on the track. It will be hazy for the bigg...

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I so enjoy exuberant slightly overgrown gardens. For me this turn towards the 4th of July and high summer means the turn towards the darker side of the year as my world gets warm and we enter o...

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Sammy sure is spending a lot of time in his fort lately. But he is still coming out to snuggle and purr in his wheezy old man way. Wow, he just took his evening yowly toy back into his fort. He...

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It is hollyhock time on the flower clock. There is a gorgeous almost maroon one growing wild in the parking strip down at the end of the street where I go Walkies and I need to get out there wi...

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Even though it is summer, officially, now here in the Northern Hemisphere, the river was just full of new life. This is a mama Common Merganser and her ducklings. There were many family groups ...

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So I am leaving in about an hour for our adventure in a very nice cabin in the woods on the other side of the state for four days. It is my birthday and I am not going to take my computer wit...

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Last year on my birthday I took the day off from work and Most Honorable and I went hiking on a mixed-use trail built on an old railway line through the mountains that separate Portland from th...

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So Stanley is kind of sort of mostly gone. Somebody else is feeding her. Yesterday evening after I put my birdfeeders back up she thumped up on to my porch railing next to my seed feeder expect...

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I think she may be working me but I have most definitively been adopted. My guess is that she came to live in the neighborhood in one of the student households and still lives there but is thin...

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She’s still here. The tabby cat. I am calling her Stanley. If my fierce little protective gang girl Stella was still with us, she would be long gone. To say Stella was territorial would be a bi...

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The poppies continue to add a burst of color to the morning mist and gloom. And I have been practicing shots with this local batch. There is a famous American yoga teacher named Ana (Tiger) F...

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It is a good thing you all like flowers or you wouldn’t ever come visit my pages here during the spring. I just can’t help it. The light, the colors are irresistible. Thank you all for your s...

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I find myself taking pictures of this rose bush each year. It is a few blocks from here. Practice makes perfect. I love the light even though we are moving towards the solstice there is still a...

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This is something growing weed like a block up the street on the sidewalk side of the park. I stopped and looked at these delicate flowers a few nights ago and today I took the camera. After a...

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I took this with my phone this morning on my way to the charity 5K event. It was held at a park in an urban residential neighborhood full of lovely old homes and wonderful gardens. And memorie...

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The color is so close to true here on this slightly squashed rose and I love the shape of the petals. Oldest sister came home from the hospital yesterday afternoon. She is in a fair amount of...

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It is a holiday here in The States and I am so happy to have the day off. We all need down time and as I get a little older I find, just like many of you, I need to honor that more. But! My in...

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This is a local regular, a song sparrow. Handsome fellow. He just sat there yesterday and did not flit off and I was grateful to get his picture. These guys are always in motion. The sister is...

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I can’t figure out how to size pictures properly here. Oh well. And I admit I stopped cross posting on ED. I’ll work on it again when I have some free time. Just reveling in the greenness out ...

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The roses are really coming on out there. Gorgeous glorious roses everywhere. Spring just barrels through, doesn’t it? I feel this imperative to be outside as much as I can. I know many of you...

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I am employing a little classic pop music to help with expressing my emotions these days… On Sunday it was the Supremes and their version of Keep Me Hangin’ On, which I actually listened to in...

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This iris was in a random suburban yard near a shady spot in the parking lot down the hill and across the busy street from where we went birding on Thursday. The powers that be are doing a ma...

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My oldest sister would probably not be happy that I am posting this except that she looks really good considering what she has been through with her cancer and the treatment and her smile is bi...

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Okay so the extravagant adventure in staying in a hotel three blocks from my sister’s apartment on First Hill in Seattle was worth it as you can see by this view of my Sorrento Hotel bathroom. ...

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This is a picture I went back for. I saw these yellow irises blooming on Sunday and luckily they were still blooming on Wednesday. The columbines are starting to bloom! I love their almost pinw...

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