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February 09, 2022

I'll Take It

Today I saw the first open daffodil of the year as I was out on a walk. This shot is from this morning in the neighborhood. I’d say the flower clock is officially open now for the season. This ...


February 05, 2022

What Behooves Us

Our version of snowdrops. The black grass is popular here. I have a busy week ahead so I am hoping I can rest and restore my vital energy for being out and about more than usual. I have a foll...


Frost in the lilac garden this week. We had a peak time event yesterday from 8 to 11 AM, where the power company encourages you to defer using energy and gives you a rebate for any reduction in...


January 22, 2022

Not So Fast Sweetheart

Pretty hellebores from yesterday. Mr. Sherlock slipped on the rain-soaked ground Wednesday late afternoon shooing their one remaining chicken Hilda into the coop. He hit his head. There was a ...


January 20, 2022

Who and How

A neighborhood cottage. I love the detail here. It is raining. Not hard, no drama, just plain endless seeming rain. It is dark. It is cold, the dog days of winter even though spring is thrummi...


January 15, 2022

Scottish All the Way Down

Mt. St. Helen’s at sunrise. Lately, I am not sure why exactly, but I have been doing a Scottish immersion. Initially it was the first book in the Outlander series in audiobook format, so I am ...


January 10, 2022

A Country Run By Cat Ladies?

Look at the light! The angle, so low, of the sun, just up over the foothills to the southeast yesterday morning. You have seen pictures from here before, it is a small park area about a mile up...


January 08, 2022

Diving in Headfirst

It finally stopped raining yesterday afternoon and I was able to get out and stroll around the neighborhood, after the snow and endless rain it is a boon to be able to just go outside. There ar...


The “other” community garden on New Year’s Day. Soon, soon the surrounding fence will be ringed with daffodils. The snow is gone and now we are under a flood watch. It is above freezing and wil...


The park across the street Tuesday morning. There is a bit less snow and quite a bit more ice over there now as we hit the lowest temperature of this weather event early this morning. This hill...


December 27, 2021

A Different Kind of Lockdown

Out front yesterday morning. It looks the same now after it all melted and then came back overnight. We are in for the deep freeze for at least 5 days. We have warming shelters set up all over ...


December 24, 2021

Deliveries

We are having this little break in the bad weather, and we had some sun today, distant but blue skies. Mrs. Sherlock forgot Frieda’s harness, so she came over here and got me and we stopped bac...


December 19, 2021

Let's Not Forget

Vincent van Gogh — ‘Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and we obey them without realizing it.’ I can happily say that my emotions are a little less d...


December 16, 2021

The Blues

The lilac garden in all its late fall glory. There is a beauty here too. Our grocery store workers are going on strike tomorrow. It will be crazy today, but I will go down and get what I can. ...


December 13, 2021

There You Go

A young Crepe Myrtle in the neighborhood yesterday. There are two girls that live here, maybe 7 and 9 with their mom. That may be reflected in the level the ornaments are hung. Walking after th...


December 10, 2021

Really? An Apology?

Not to dwell on the past, but remember my job? The one I was basically forced out of while my tall young inexperienced blond male cohort got promoted above me with a larger salary. Yeah, that o...


December 07, 2021

My Kind of Decorations

Good news, Carlo’s labs came back normal. Diego’s are too. So much so that I get to stop giving him a B-12 shot every other week and only do it monthly. It takes about three minutes and is no b...


December 04, 2021

Cookies and Counters and...

Not getting many pictures these transitional days. We went from weirdly warm to burr cold in the middle of one day. This is the lilac garden on this day 5 years ago. I wanted to put up a shot o...


November 28, 2021

A Chorus of Knitters

Other than a picture of Diego, this is the first picture I took on the first outing with the new phone. Walking to the grocery on Tuesday. Very November, which can’t be over soon enough as far ...


November 26, 2021

"Nose" Day

From yesterday, this picture reminds me a bit of those old colored postcards from the black and white days. This is a shot of Willamette Falls from an older train car. It is an amazing natural ...


A house at the top of some public stairs on my walk in the fog this morning. Someone with lovely taste lives here. And so does history. Those ferns have been in that retaining wall for some tim...


November 18, 2021

Taking Back the Narrative

I took this Saturday walking with Mrs. Sherlock but did the same walk yesterday morning without her under less foreboding skies. We have been spared the worst of the “atmospheric river” rain du...


November 13, 2021

Keeping it Local

Up on the big hill this morning in the fog. The rain finally stopped, and it felt good to be out and moving. There was some flooding and evacuations out near the coast and the place we were at ...


November 10, 2021

A Toe in the Out There Water?

We have a flood watch in play later today through Friday so this photo I took in the glorious sun along the river on Monday is a reminder that we will get through this patch. Today for the fir...


November 07, 2021

Just a Photo from Today

Just a photo from my morning walk. My favorite tulip poplar there on the right. Carry on. :)


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