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In the Glitter Room...Not in Everyday Ramblings
This is a new photograph of a particular camellia bush that I have photographed every year about this time for about 5 years. It is a harbinger of warmth and color and light in the wet deep dark...
An Insiders View of a Washing Machine in Everyday Ramblings
Ah, the drama of an urban winter. We are seeing early camellias in bloom and I saw some daffodil shoots yesterday as well. I had my MRI yesterday morning. It really is a bit like being trapped ...
More Energy Would Be Nice in Everyday Ramblings
This is from our hike yesterday morning, an old carriage barn. It was hard to get a centered perspective because there was this giant black truck parked in front of it. It was a rare dry winter ...
No Really, I Heard That! in Everyday Ramblings
Cut back winter grasses with frost on New Year’s morning across the street at the Under Armor campus. So last week it was the appointment with the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor and the referral ...
Pete Seeger to the Rescue in Everyday Ramblings
Happy New Year! This is a shot of one of four heritage Hawthorns (Lavalle hawthorn Crataegus x lavallei) in front of my church. It is not a native tree but very pretty, with white flowers in the...
I (Almost) Heard That in Everyday Ramblings
Carlo on Christmas morning. The gray throw was supposed to be a gift for me. We know how that worked out. There were fresh organic oranges in my Imperfect box on Monday so I had fresh squeezed ...
Let it Go, Let it Go, Let it Go in Everyday Ramblings
In an exchange of texts on Friday night Mrs. Sherlock asked if I wanted to hike up to Pittock Mansion instead of doing the default river loop walk we often do on Saturday mornings. I was to mee...
Being Green and a Turn out of the Dark in Everyday Ramblings
We made it to the solstice! A bit of a bumpy ride for the world but we made it. For those of you who have light and lots of it, may it not be too much of a sweaty burden and for those of us in ...
Kicked Out of the Nest in Everyday Ramblings
You know you take the good with the not so good, the beautiful and pleasing with the not so beautiful and pleasing. This is an old traffic structure in my neighborhood a couple of days ago and ...
The Opposite of Mindfulness and Ostentatious Wealth in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday afternoon after teaching my work class I clocked out, came home and with perfect timing Kes and Most Honorable (my sister and Brother-in-Law and Love) appeared at my door. I had spent...
Why Bother? in Everyday Ramblings
It has been an unusually quiet weekend for me. In spite of a bunch of chores and holiday prep to do Friday after work I turned in early thinking I would get up and go to the gym and walk with Mr...
Cold Yoga? A Thing? in Everyday Ramblings
This is a shot from this time last year of one of the heritage trees we visited on our walk last weekend. It has been a bit of a challenge to get interesting pictures out and about right now as ...
Pretty or Tasty Orange Things in Everyday Ramblings
It may be a little less than three weeks until the solstice but it sure looks (and feels) a lot like winter out there. Yesterday we mostly walked Frida through a residential neighborhood that ha...
A Good Kind of Intervention and Cars in Everyday Ramblings
I took this a couple of days ago and put it up as my cover shot on Facebook. I like it because of the way the light hits the leaves and the fact that those leaves are not totally sodden. Last ye...
On Canning Labels and Aging in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday morning we had heavy heavy fog. That darker gray blob there in the river is a great blue heron standing on the tip of a floating log. The picture doesn’t do the scene justice but at le...
Just the Thing in Everyday Ramblings
Today is one of those transitional days between fall and winter. As you can see above it was a wet one. After the driest November on record here in Oregon. I took this in Salem, about an hour s...
Gratitude, Oh Yes in Everyday Ramblings
It was windy, it was cold but man was it beautiful here yesterday. We went walking south of Portland in mostly reclaimed farmlands in an area with expensive homes and some really nice parkland. ...
Incrementally Making My Way in Everyday Ramblings
There were some technical issues with our annual work upgrade and in spite of a major effort to contain the work to last night… it leaked over into today but it is done!!! This is my 11th of the...
Celebrating Interspecies Cohabitation Day in Everyday Ramblings
Tomorrow is the 4th anniversary of the day Carlo and Diego came to live here. I can’t believe it has been 4 years! The cats are certainly acclimated and are currently curled up together sleeping...
Entitlement and Heartbreak in Everyday Ramblings
A clear (ish) crisp fall day here in the Pacific Northwest. If you look carefully in the distance in this photo you can see Mt. Hood. I have been looking for an opportunity to get a walk in back...
Getting Out the Damn Door in Everyday Ramblings
I got my reimaged work computer back today. It took me over an hour trying various things to figure out how to get one of my screens to function properly. The fact that I move between docking st...
A Malicious Distraction in Everyday Ramblings
This messy busy picture is of the street my apartment faces on a weekday full of cars of working people trying to avoid the high fees to park at the local garages. Without a resident sticker (th...
Pipe Dreams and Pumpkin Sized Squash in Everyday Ramblings
This is the main street a few days ago in the part of my neighborhood that was “redeveloped”. All the businesses and house were torn down, all the rich history of a diverse immigrant community ...
A Warm Radiant Smile in Everyday Ramblings
This is the wet ground out front. After a dry and unusually gorgeous most of October we now have had almost (just a quarter inch shy) all of our average rainfall for the month. It has been comin...
Sadness and Shoes in Everyday Ramblings
“My” beloved track. I once had an interview with a young man for a stockbroker job that was comprised almost exclusively of talking on the phone and he had a terrible stutter. We didn’t talk abo...
