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On Sunday after we both watched the sermon at our church online, Mrs. Sherlock and I went for a walk south into a neighboring area that is up on a bluff that overlooks the river. You can see the...

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In spite of the fact that most of the roses lately have been blown out by the unusual warmth there have been a few beautiful ones around to capture. Wow. We have a curfew tonight at 8PM. Shades ...

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While it is not a great year for roses, the clematis are gorgeous. I am typing this on the new laptop. Slowly slowly I am transitioning everything over and am trying not to stress out too much ...

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Cheerful, non? By the track Sunday. Because of our bizarre weather the poppies and their variants are early and the roses that were not pruned are out and overblown in only a few days of warmth...

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Yes, the photos have been iris heavy lately but I just like this photo, the flower and the composition. Did anyone watch Spike Lee’s 3½-minute homage to New York? It is brilliant and it made me...

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The irises are almost done but there are a few in select locations around the neighborhood still blooming. I love this color and the light. We are having a much appreciated break in the spring ...

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From midday today on my walk a little bit further afield. I know it is Mother’s Day and I hope you all are feeling valued and deeply appreciated by the appropriate parties no matter what config...

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It is a gorgeous day out, mild and clear and even with things opening up a bit, quiet. Except the Oregon Air National Guard F-15 Eagles fly over this morning to honor health care workers and f...

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It is clematis on the flower clock and has been for about a week. It is also wisteria. There is no wisteria on either of my two local walking routes but the other day I saw one from a distance ...

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Unless it is early in the morning and the cats have managed to get me awake at an absurd hour and I am hobbling into the kitchen to feed them it is true that I don’t move like, or particularly ...

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This is from yesterday morning in the lilac garden with Mrs. Sherlock. It was exciting, it felt like a breakthrough, to spend time with her for the first time in six weeks. We both wore masks t...

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Here is the lilac garden midday today. This picture does not do it justice at all as it was so beautiful and gently fragrant and there was no one around. This being out an about and all you can...

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Yesterday it occurred to me while walking all along the street out front that the only cherry tree on the length of it’s six blocks is the one in front of where I live. That first window on th...

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It was cloudy and cool one day this week and I decided not to walk but I did get out for the mail and to visit about seven feet apart with one of my students who brought by a bag of frozen figs...

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I noticed almost 4 weeks ago that I was low on flour and thought, no problem, I’ll pick up some more next time I at the store. My local store had a good price on sugar and I got that then and t...

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If the world had not gone “tilt” I would be sitting in a warm little house looking out the full-length picture windows at a small sand dune and the very scenic Pacific Ocean. The tides are high...

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I don’t have a teddy bear to put in the window for the entertainment of the little ones that walk by but I do have a bunny. After I set the bunny up to look out on the world as it is I found a...

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Of course there has never been a time like this in the last 100 years or so here. Most every day I go out for a walk and I am lucky enough to live close by to green space. The unfolding spring ...

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We are not self-isolating, we are Artists in Residence! This picture is from a couple of days ago, the locusts over by the track just starting to bud. They shut down the restrooms and the parki...

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I took this shot of a rhododendron beginning to open Wednesday while out for my constitutional. It all depends on the angle of the sun, this plant is east facing while the ones in front of my p...

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It is getting on towards Easter, I can tell, wandering around on my own. Like for all of us the days roar through and I can’t remember what day I did what but Sunday I decided to do a fairly am...

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Many years ago, in the mid to late 80’s, my sister Kes was living in Normal Illinois and working as a nurse while her husband at the time finished his doctorate in English and taught. Things d...

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From Tuesday. Happy early Equinox! Fall and cooler temps for hunkering down, spring and blissfully longer days. They say this is the earliest equinox in 124 years. Along with everything else i...

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Mrs. Sherlock had an idea for a local hike yesterday near where we had been before but not quite, at least for me. There is one neighborhood up in the West Hills of Portland that was built up ...

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Early this morning coming back from the grocery I noticed the three new ornamental cherries planted last summer were in bloom. After I washed up and put things away I went over and took pictur...

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