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Everyday Ramblings

by noko

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I take these leaf pictures every year because I love the random patterns and colors and the mix. This is from a few days ago. The leaves are pretty much all down now, we had quite the wind yes...


The clothes dryer here hasn’t been operational for about 10 days. I realize that many of you don’t have dryers but here pretty much everyone has them and we are not used to line or rack drying...


7 days ago

Rich and Robust

I live up there in these trees. I took this yesterday from the top floor of the dental school building as I was waiting for my implant surgery. When I talk about going up on the “hill” you now...


October 20, 2024

It Seems Like a Lot

I think this was Tuesday morning on the path heading up from the track bathed in cool clear fall light. I was determined to get out and about just after my morning class so that I could get my...


October 13, 2024

Peak Capacity

The yellow is lovely, this lemony burst of color into an autumn morning. The leaves are really starting to turn here and this week, although it has been colder it has been dry and therefore be...


Morning fog over one of our reservoirs. Mrs. Sherlock asked where we should walk Saturday morning, and I suggested up by here. There is some elevation but not too much. She says she is fully r...


October 05, 2024

It All Comes Down to Light

As it grows my odd little eggplant gets more purple and less white. They are saying, (not those that control the weather, MTG), but those who report on it, that we are going to have a wet fall...


October 03, 2024

At This Advanced Age

Mirabilis jalapa, or four o’clock flower, just across from my plot in the community garden. The brother-in-law of the woman who has had this series of plots for years told me a couple of seaso...


September 28, 2024

History and Energy

If you look carefully in the distance, you can see Mt. Hood not fully covered in snow. I took this yesterday on my way back from getting my annual hearing test. It was up on the “hill”, and th...


September 25, 2024

The Soil Beneath My Feet

A mess of autumn light with a few pink dahlias at the garden just after sunrise a few days back. The garden was also quite beautiful this morning. We are having an unusually warm and bright da...


September 21, 2024

Fall-ing

Windfall? More like neglect. This is the public path to the scary low lit curved pedestrian tunnel beneath some of the roads they built in my neighborhood under the guise of urban renewal. It ...


September 15, 2024

Low Light and Bright Color

From our “easy” walk this morning across town. Mrs. Sherlock was excited that her sense of smell has fully returned. She came to my weights and bands class on Thursday raring to go and I am, n...


September 11, 2024

Back on that Horse

I took this in a hurry as I was rushing off to a meeting, but you get the gist of another of the painted cats to celebrate the anniversary of the movie Coraline. This one for some reason is ca...


September 08, 2024

Not So Lowbrow?

My compost pile. It looks artful but it is random. Still, I did think about taking a picture of it. I am grateful to say that I did not get Covid, even with the direct exposure. Mrs. Sherloc...


September 03, 2024

Sweet Indeed

From this morning. One of the 31 Coraline themed painted cats in our central downtown area. This one is called Descent and is on the Portland State campus. I walked by there after a trip in ...


September 01, 2024

An Artist's Rendering?

This almost looks like an artist’s rendering of a fancy new cityscape, but I took the shot Wednesday from the 11th floor breast health clinic of a newer building of the health organization I u...


August 24, 2024

Recharge?

A Cosmo in the garden. Fully recovered from the deluge last Saturday. Big relief. The eggplant are growing, and I have these adorable tiny green bell peppers coming on. The garden, while small...


August 17, 2024

Always Something

Wow. Look at that color. Peak crepe myrtle yesterday morning. As if signs of autumn weren’t all around. I am afraid my tomatoes aren’t going to get enough sun and heat to ripen at this point. ...


August 12, 2024

All The Things

Delightful to see the sweet pea blooming. This was one I grew from seed and my seedlings are not as robust as they could be so this is a win. But I grew the tomatoes next to it from seed as we...


August 07, 2024

Community Hackles

This was taken just after sunrise a couple of days ago. Wonderful light for this white anemone. This morning, I had to break into a lively discussion of the love poem I read at the end of cla...


August 04, 2024

Accountability?

The rosemary behind the dahlia here is a nice touch. I am not even sure where I took this picture, but it was maybe a week and a half ago. It must have been the garden, as that is mostly where...


August 01, 2024

A Phase, I Hope

If I am going to procrastinate, which I am doing, I might as well share it with you all. I felt too tired to go to the garden yesterday. It was humid with this big changeable sky. I had walked...


While I do have both eggplant and marigolds in my garden plot, this one gets more sun and so is starting to fruit. Mine are a couple of weeks behind and a different kind. But the flowers and f...


July 21, 2024

Pondering and Incursions

In front of this photo, the north half of my modest garden yesterday. You can see the cosmos are getting ready to burst into flower. They are quite happy. Did I mention this before, that my pl...


July 15, 2024

A Strategic Retreat

Yes, I know I could alter the photo and take the wire line out, but I like these markers that what you are seeing is what I am seeing, living plants in real gardens here where I live… not some...


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