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Curious, and a New Challenge in Everyday Ramblings
I realize that someone as desperate for color as me here in this wet cold winter most likely went out and bought this flowering plant and put it in this raised bed but it does perfectly express ...
Looking for a Tad More Energy in Everyday Ramblings
Hard to believe with the low light but I took this at noon a couple of days ago. This is the house originally with the sharpening shop on the ground floor on a triangular corner that I am writin...
An Opportunity to Indulge a Little in Everyday Ramblings
This space in the photo makes me slightly crazy. It is a big public space that was created about 50 years ago when they tore down the neighborhood in which I live in the name of Urban Renewal. ...
Ineffable in Everyday Ramblings
This is a statue of our former mayor Vera Katz who died recently. Someone very appropriately put a pink hat on her this morning. Our version of the Women’s March 2018 was canceled and while the...
Buried and Battered Democracy is Alive in Us in Everyday Ramblings
Yes, I am still seeing homeless encampments and people sleeping rough out everywhere but on Saturday I saw my first blooming camellia of the year. We are only four weeks away from early crocuses...
Privilege and Gratitude in Everyday Ramblings
After a week of rain we are finally getting a break. It has been so dark and damp and cave-like and it is affecting everyone’s mood. Well that… and the news. I guess one good tidbit is that ou...
At Least the Cats Don't Mind in Everyday Ramblings
11AM Sunday morning. What I thought remarkable about this was that whoever was sleeping in the closest doorway was sleeping under one of those super soft synthetic blankets but this one had Eife...
Picking Up Maybe Not So Good Vibrations? in Everyday Ramblings
Because we met at the gym yesterday instead of Weight Watchers, Mrs. Sherlock asked if we could meet a half hour later. We did our default river loop walk, but backwards. She wasn’t feeling well...
What I Do Now in Everyday Ramblings
The picture is an atmospheric mood shot of downtown. Wow, so back to it, a slightly modified regular schedule. Compared to many of you our weather has been mild though it has been windy and co...
The Gift of a Warm Bed and Cats in Everyday Ramblings
Happy New Year! We aren’t quite there yet. This is the library at Portland State at dusk that I walk by all the time. I love the light here. The library was built around the heritage Golden Beec...
Aspirational Word for 2018 in Everyday Ramblings
A paper snowflake Miss E. made a few years back and sent in her Christmas card and a quilt that was a gift about the same time from a former coworker (a lovely surprise). We went from ice (it w...
Bleh, Ice, Bleh in Everyday Ramblings
We were just supposed to get freezing rain on Sunday. Surprise. Since then I have only been out a few steps. Right this moment, an hour before noon, it is still below freezing and unbelievably ...
Lightweight Allergic Princess Snowflake in Everyday Ramblings
Well according to the Google Santa Tracker he is about to stop by Alice Springs in a few moments. He is booking! :) I try to put up pictures here that are maybe not the best I take but are evoca...
Eight Spoons Down in Everyday Ramblings
This is the park a half block up the hill I live on this morning. We’ve had heavy miasmic fog but at least right this minute it is above freezing. We’ll have rain later, much easier to deal with...
Texture and a String of Colored Lights in Everyday Ramblings
Sometimes when I am out and about I take texture shots. This is one I took on Sunday. This morning I went to a work meeting. It is a meeting we have every two weeks and there are usually about ...
An Almost Imperceptible Snore and the Nature of Power in Everyday Ramblings
I took this picture because there is a Christmas tree on the back end of the top part of the crane towards the support. But what I like about it is the big sky, something we don’t get to see aro...
An Unexpected Pause in the Action in Everyday Ramblings
This is an iconic house on a busy street in NE Portland not far from where I used to live. I took this wandering around over there last weekend. It is cloudy, just a few degrees above freezing...
Finding Comfort Where We Can in Everyday Ramblings
This is a quite nice elaborate chicken coop down the block from the miniature goats. I saw a rabbit in there too. A little gray guy. The man that lives here was gently shooing the girls back int...
An Adorable Goat and Princess Observations in Everyday Ramblings
Here is one of the adorable and friendly miniature goats around the block from the yoga studio where I took the workshop. I went to visit them every day at the break. They have a new dispenser l...
Oh Do Let There Be Light (shortish, no homeless camps) in Everyday Ramblings
Light! Look at that. Clear sky in December. Amazing. This was yesterday midday during a break in the yoga workshop I am attending. So far I am not learning anything startlingly new but it is bri...
If I Could Just Stop Yawning in Everyday Ramblings
On Sunday we went out birding and had a good time even though it was a bit colder out on the island than in the city. Most Honorable brought his scope and it was relatively quiet out there so we...
Climate Change Chic in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday we picked a part of town we both don’t know that well to walk in although Most Honorable grew up near here. It rained but not too hard but still Mrs. Sherlock and Frida and me, we get ...
Blame, Distraction and a Recycling Bin in Everyday Ramblings
This afternoon, just before dark on a piece of scrubland nearby where the express buses park. The encampment is all very neat but I do wonder how they get that “borrowed” recycling bin emptied. ...
A Small Business Milestone in Everyday Ramblings
Rain and red berries and twinkly lights as a kick off to the winter season even though we have a few weeks to go before we get there officially. Sorry about the polemic approach to my post Sund...
Hog Wild (But Modestly) in Everyday Ramblings
This is the west side of the Steel Bridge yesterday morning at 8:30AM. There was a whole crew of runners passing by because as you can see it was not raining but if you look closely you can see ...
