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Love the buttery light from Tuesday here on the rose on this gloomy morning. Thanks for all your support. The facilitator of the book group thought my essay had enough interest to send out to th...

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As I have gotten older my brain doesn’t process words on the page the way it used to. I don’t see some words, I repeat some from two sentences above, many names of things I can’t remember and ne...

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Half the lopsided community garden plot this morning. I am growing seedlings to fill in the holes. I received an assignment to write an essay about reading Walt Whitman when I was a teenager fr...

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I have this rich internal life and think deeply about various things throughout the day on a wide range of topics. I have been thinking for a couple of years about writing and posting somewhere ...

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Finally, a decent iris picture. I took this Monday morning. It is getting crowded on the flower clock with, early lilies, columbine, fox gloves and roses coming on. Diego is doing well, and he ...

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Camas. In the water gardens down in the South Waterfront area. What surprised me as I walked by was that I knew what they were. They are native here, but I don’t see them that often. I was going...

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I ordered this mesh cold frame or what they call a mini greenhouse for my seedlings that came last week. It arrived in a box with bags of pieces that are numbered but there are no instructions. ...

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There is only one large mature wisteria in the neighborhood that I know of. It is for sure wisteria on the flower clock. A couple of days back I braved a sunbreak and went down to take pictures....

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It is first tranche clematis on the Flower Clock. And cornflowers and the early Japanese Hydrangeas. The iris that survived the late snow, (the colorful bearded iris were hit the hardest) are co...

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This is where I catch the bus most often. It is across the street at the place that used to be my gym and is now the Portland headquarters of Under Armor. When they moved in, they planted the yo...

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Petty picture of a newly leafed tree and a partial blue sky but what is unusual about this street tree is that it is a magnolia with soft lemony colored flowers. I couldn’t quite get a good shot...

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Oh, the green! It does a soul good. I took this yesterday wandering around on my own. Mrs. Sherlock is off on a scouting trip in Eastern Oregon with her hiking/snowshoeing group. Everyone else i...

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A pink Dogwood on the way to the garden. Kes came up today to visit, drop off recyclables for my Ridwell box, pickup recyclable bottles for her bottle return, drop off cat litter and dry goods ...

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This azalea is lovely, but the rhododendrons are coming on now as well. My place is surrounded by pink turning to white blossoms. I did discover that the two leggy bushes outside my bedroom are ...

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With spring so much vibrant color returns to the world. The crabapples are gorgeous this year. The iris, though; either it was the snow, the colder temperatures, or a blight, are not doing so we...

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This is kind of cheating. I took this 13 years ago, but I did crop it now. It is a window display of a florist shop in Seattle, but I thought it matched my mood here as we move towards Easter w...

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What is that, you might ask there in the dawn darkness? It is snow. Snow in April on the ornamental cherry blossoms and crowning rhododendrons outside my bedroom window this morning. Snow on th...

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I know for many of you spring hasn’t even started yet, and for some of you it is six months away, but here it is just roaring through. The ornamental pears are shedding their delicate white blo...

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From a couple of days ago the yellow is Oregon grape, which is our state flower. The pink behind it is a flowering currant and behind that are the three baby ornamental cherries planted two yea...

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Our daffodils started a few weeks back, but they are full on now. This one is from the community garden today. My starts all survived my going away expecting rain when none came. Good for the b...

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Here we are. I taught class this morning from the beach house with a window opened on Zoom with the view. A variation on a Room with a View. It is a lovely day. 56 degrees and clear and sunny....

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Daffodils in the lilac garden a few days back. The trees are starting to bloom and lovely as they are the pollen count is off the charts. But they are so beautiful. Even in the rain. Cauliflow...

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From our walk last week, up on Mt. Tabor, which is a volcanic vent up in the east end of Portland. I like imagining the trees are on the move. :) Next week I am finally getting my teeth cleaned...

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This is from our walk across town on Saturday morning. It was not a big hike or anything. Both of us had exerted ourselves to our limits recently so it was more of a stroll looking at the views...

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The South Waterfront area yesterday morning. Look at that big sky. Today it is overcast. Nothing fancy; glare and clouds. It is dry though. We had quite the rainstorm Monday night and on Tuesd...

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