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Something to Ponder
It is peak iris time out there in my world but I am having trouble getting shots that meet my high standards after all these years of taking pictures of them and I thought instead I’d share the ...
Quandaries
Iris! Exciting. These from yesterday evening are a bit battered and in an unkempt bed (kind of how I feel, which is why I chose this picture). Everything that can bloom is blooming and as much ...
Intoxicating In More Ways Than One
On a reconnaissance mission yesterday morning over in my old neighborhood for a future Trails Club hike we wended our way through so many gorgeous front gardens. It was such a delight and I thou...
Noko and the Invisibility Cloak
The pear trees out back started blooming sometime yesterday. It is cloudy and there is a lot of glare here but you get the idea. Re-entry was going okay, and still is going okay but there is th...
Away, Away and Back Again
The weather at the coast was a spring mix and the tides at extremes; this was a break in the afternoon rain after a very low tide. My usual routine is to walk the beach just at sunrise but the l...
Who Needs Lions?
This is from midday yesterday as I was walking over to Mr. and Mrs. Sherlock’s house for lunch and a movie. I forgot my headphones, I have been preoccupied lately and tired and so traversed the ...
Some Relief if Not Progress
It’s raining today, sometimes heavily but this is what the opposite corner where I live looks like right now. Two historical cottages with paper-thin walls rented to young folks and the beautifu...
Treacherous, Self-Interested, Heartless Cads
This is the view from the dining area of the Manor House and gardens we visited Saturday. I want to plant myself here in this beautiful light filled place with the view of Mt. Hood there in the ...
Weekends Rock
This is from yesterday at the garden that was left to the Episcopalian Diocese by the heirs of Peter Kerr, a Scottish grain merchant, who built this perfectly sited house in 1914 (the year my mo...
Almost Out of the Woods?
Diego was slowly getting better and then yesterday Carlo started showing signs of not being okay and so there I was early on my second vacation day taking pictures of the litter box and calling ...
A Very Good Thing
Noticing a theme here in the pictures? Burgeoning spring! Yippee. These are tulips tended religiously by the older woman who is the caregiver for the fundamentalist church (that is in a historic...
Wilma Rudolph I am Not
But still, I had the best track workout this morning since last summer and I started timed workouts. Wilma Rudolph was such an awesome person. She went from having to wear a brace and an orthope...
Very Bad Role Models and the Very Best
This very spring equinox shot is from Kes and Most Honorable’s yard when I visited. We had a couple of days this week of unusually warm dry weather and you could see stuff (particularly the tree...
Bossy Teachers
In my teacher training course yesterday there were only women, most in their 30’s and 40’s, about 12. There was one super fit woman in her 70’s who is a teacher for the main teacher who is an in...
With All This I Am Still Grateful
Yeah. Much needed color returns to my world. So in the cycle of my now almost 65 years here in this place in this body I have noticed I have a range of times during the year when I feel a sense...
Glorious Independence and the Sleep Cure
This are Kes’s sturdy crocuses. She sent me a picture a couple of weeks ago with them partially covered in snow but we are through that now and on the other side. This is the first year in a lon...
So Long, Been Good To Know You
This is the red oak across the river we walk by now and then. Last time I saw it was in late fall and most of the leaves were down. Now they are gone and the tree is ready for spring. The fellow...
The Things I Do Not Want to Do
Today it has been six months since I had the second sports performance test. I was talking to a student last night that is quite healthy, just two years older than me who out of the blue, it see...
Not Me, Not Today, No Way
Mrs. Sherlock had quite the group snowshoeing adventure on Friday, (adventures in off groomed trail activities and older folks who couldn’t get up the hill, and snow up near her waist and lost b...
Not Familiar
This was from the side of the track last night at what I call “Crows” when we are transitioning from day to night or night to day. I was walking home from downtown after a haircut in the freezin...
On the Verge Armed With an Instapot
Waiting for Mrs. Sherlock in front of my gym last weekend I was taken by the decoration on the lower part of the building. There are a couple of poem fragments and more fern designs there too. I...
V-A-L-U-E-D
From Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer the chief copy editor at Random House… Don’t use…very, rather, really, quite and in fact. Just, and so…pretty and of course and surely and that said and ...
Holding Space for Mysteries
The forecast fluctuates like crazy but for now we are looking good for no snow or ice for the next week. It is a huge relief. Yesterday for the first time since I started teaching yoga back at ...
Sorting Out Priorities
I know this is kind of bleak, this shot but this is my out there world right now. We have had two days of heavy rain and lowland flooding, which is better than ice but still not exactly cheerful...
Really? Purple Sweet Potatoes?
Wow, we dodged a bullet in terms of bad weather. We had snow, we had wind, and it is still cold but so far only small amounts of ice. I took this early today out and about and I did see evidence...
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