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Everyday Ramblings

by noko

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3 days ago

Seeing It Through

Early roses from the neglected front garden across the street. I have lived here over 15 years, and no one has every lived in the house. The family comes in from the coast where they live ever...


May 03, 2025

Columbines and Coyotes

A work in progress here, half my small garden plot. The purple and white columbine is being a bit of a bully this year eclipsing her pink and white sister. Not sure how that happened. Thanks...


May 01, 2025

The Odd One Out

Camas. I am seeing it more and more around. It doesn’t mind being wet. That is why here it is planted in one of the sidewalk water sinks we have around town, particularly in the newly built-up...


The only patch of yellow iris I know about in the neighborhood coming on the other day. The community garden which is in a fair amount of shade has a few beautiful stands of tall purple iris c...


April 19, 2025

A Pile of Clean Blankets

One of the mystery tulips in my plot yesterday morning. I am so glad I planted them as although they are a little wonky and late, they are gorgeous. After all the meetings this last week we ...


April 16, 2025

Non Corporeal Riches

Early iris on the flower clock. The lilacs are coming on too. Beautiful morning here and I went over to the lilac garden to take some pictures for my niece who is finally getting to the end of...


April 06, 2025

The Eyes Have It

The last picture I posted was a blooming ornamental pear. This is a blooming fruiting pear. The fruiting trees bloom later. The rhododendrons are crowning. The ones near me come out pink and o...


This shot of an ornamental pear was from last week when we had an unusual day and a half of sun and warmth. It is gloomy now. I saw the first unfurling iris of the season yesterday on my wa...


March 21, 2025

Blossoms in the Rain

This is a quick shot in the rain Thursday midday while scurrying to a bus shelter. Today it rained even harder. The daffodils are taking it hard, but they are resilient. One of my students wa...


March 14, 2025

A Week Near the Equinox

From the community garden this morning after class. We had a break in the rain, (if not the cold) and I went down with my tub trug and secateurs. I had been down there on Tuesday and was delig...


I used a similar photo of this hellebore in my weekly reminder to my students last week. I took this one a few days after that one when I showed the plant to Mrs. Sherlock in person. The color...


March 02, 2025

The Tail of the Dragon

Yesterday. It was clear and warm(ish) for most of the day. What a gift. If you look deep along the river and a bit to the left, you can see the snow-covered dome of Mt. St. Helen’s. There was ...


February 22, 2025

Noko as NIMBY?

The daffodils are trying but the heavy cloud cover this time this year is holding any blossoming back. This is from this morning and fits my mood. Restless and unfocused. I did go for a walk a...


February 19, 2025

From Snow to Snowdrops

It is positively balmy out there at 44˚F. And we have a brief reprieve from the rain. I went for a walk after a meeting I was dreading and thought I was ill-prepared for that turned out just f...


February 15, 2025

Amateurs

The snow finally came. We are making our way out of it now after a few days of closures and cancellations. The local League of Women Voters was scheduled to have our annual media luncheon yest...


February 08, 2025

Catch As Catch Can?

A house and a door in the neighborhood. In previous years we have had open crocuses and blooming daffodils by now but not this year. We are behind average in rainfall, but it has been cold. To...


February 05, 2025

Out There

Lady Justice fronting a disused courthouse downtown. I follow a Substack that had a photo last week of a man painting over a cheerful mural that was full of words like Integrity, Equality, Div...


January 31, 2025

Sour Grapes?

Tomorrow would be my oldest sister’s 81st birthday. This is a photo I took of a mobile in her beautiful old apartment on this day ten years ago. We had a challenging relationship and in spite ...


January 26, 2025

For Now

Every year about this time I start checking for signs of spring. This tree, moss, crocus bulb continuum is my go-to. With the below freezing temperatures for over a week we are slightly behind...


Every week I choose a photo I have taken that represents in some way the time or place I am in for my class reminder I send to my students. When the weather is a little better than it is prese...


January 11, 2025

Something to Ponder

On Thursday I had back-to-back appointments with my Primary Care Physician and my Cardiologist with a little break in between. I took this on the break on our big pedestrian and public transit...


January 04, 2025

The Wild Ride

I took this five years ago on a walk with Mrs. Sherlock on the same weekend as this. We were walking in her now old neighborhood (as she has completed her move). She’s been in the new place ab...


January 01, 2025

Here We Go

The Steel Bridge over the Willamette River from the train the other day. Love the big sky. Today, New Year’s Day, it is misty and gray, and I am spending the better part of it indoors. Becau...


December 28, 2024

Accomplishing Nothing At All

Christmas morning. A labyrinth the community here is building on some scrub land between “the hill” where all the hospitals are and an established fairly upscale neighborhood. I went for a lov...


December 21, 2024

Reflecting

Wow, the holidays are barreling in. And today is the solstice. And an acknowledgement of how much the light, or lack thereof affects us. We have plenty of dark wet days ahead, so we aren’t out...


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