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This is a Canyon Live Oak (Quercus chrysolepis) and is heritage tree #79 that was brought up from California on a flatbed truck about 95 years ago. It lives in a side yard of a Tudor Revival m...

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This morning I took a walk after sunrise up behind my place to the grocery store. It was below freezing but clear and I enjoyed it. I am feeling stronger these days and I know my cardiovascula...

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The community garden yesterday where I am waiting for my little plot. This morning I went to the Social Security office yet again. The guy behind me in line had stuck his knife up a tree trun...

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This is from last week. I walked by this tree yesterday and almost all the leaves were down. It happens so fast sometimes. Today it is freezing and remarkably clear out. I have been posting a ...

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This is one of the beautiful trees outside our Central Library yesterday morning. I was walking back from yet another visit to our local scenic Social Security office. If I don’t get my determ...

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This is from yesterday morning’s group hike. Because it drizzled on and off we had 18 hardy souls this week, about half of us were different from last week. Mrs. Sherlock was tired so we baile...

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This is from the Portland State campus on Sunday. Right across from here up against another building is a whole row of large beautiful arbutus shrubs. The way the leaves and the light and the ...

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This shot is from the park in the next block up yesterday afternoon. I walked through and said hello to the trees thinking that many of them are more than 100 years old and were here for the f...

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This long skinny shot is the horse chestnut about three blocks away, yesterday afternoon. There is a City Council hearing early next month to renew our “Big Tree Amendment”, which protects ou...

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Out this morning on an errand, this is the area that used to be the pool at the YMCA across the street but was back filled by Under Armor and is now their Portland headquarters. It was miasmic...

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This mix of oak and maple leaves is over by the community garden yesterday where I will have my little raised bed next year. It is dry and cold and the leaves are almost all off the trees by n...

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Whoa baby, I was a nervous wreck yesterday morning. I had left all my computer equipment from work set-up except the phone (I unplugged that after the last day I worked) so that I could check ...

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Wow, winter is moving in fast this year. At this rate there won’t be any leaves left by Thanksgiving with the big winds. I took this a bit earlier today when I walked down to get my new glasse...

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This was Cape Kiwanda on out first day at the beach. In October, in particular, it is rare to be able to go out walking in the afternoon on the day we get there but Thursday was gorgeous. All ...

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This is the heritage shagbark hickory a few days ago in the park next to my place. It has been raining and gloomy since but we should have some clearing in the next few days. As you might ima...

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The city of Portland is in a valley and as you can imagine our weather is influenced by that. After a morning of light rain and moderate winds the clouds all moved back to the edge of said val...

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I’ve used this photo I took at the arboretum last weekend in my yoga communications this week and I love it. There is something about the sweep of the sky and the land sloping away, the colors,...

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On Thursday I was wandering around downtown burning a little time before an appointment for a haircut and I saw this tree against this building. The three pictures I took don’t do justice to wh...

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I don’t know…I’ll be gone a long long time… Wow the Rolling Stones were young in 1965. This is the song going through my mind this week. We just finished month end close and if things go accor...

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Mr. Finch used to grouse at me about my lack of strategy and unsystematic under-analyzed posting times when we were both back on Open Diary. He would have never been able to keep up with what i...

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This is one of the few giant trees around here that still has its own lot. When I get some time I will look into what was surrounding it before. It was clearly right on the interurban railroad ...

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We came upon this beautiful tree last weekend walking a multiuse path through an upscale neighborhood south of here that Mrs. Sherlock had explored on one of her recent group bike rides. It fol...

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Here is Diego looking very serious relaxing on top of the microwave. He continues to randomly throw up. Yesterday it was on my Sierra Club Engagement calendar. I need to organize a vet trip at ...

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Yesterday I got to pick where we hiked and I wanted to go visit this large rowdy community garden I pass on the bus all the time but have never been to before. There is a hike in our hill walk...

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If you have read “The Overstory”, which I am still under the influence of, this picture I took last weekend on the misty trail will make sense to you on an intuitive level. It hazed up yesterd...

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