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A Tame Indulgence With Crows
This is from last year and is the side of the building we used to work in that is about 3 blocks from where I live. They are doing work on the building and over the last few days a guy has been ...
Seeds of Hope
It is raining now but before it started this was my bright colorful world just a few blocks away here in the neighborhood. Thanks for your wishes for energy as I moved into my new teaching sch...
Vulnerability Avoidance Tactics
Local leaf litter from yesterday evening, I was fascinated by how the backs of the red leaves look almost purple. Although we had some rain this weekend (and there is more on the way), we also ...
Pink Ears and the Seductions of Deference
As we walked by this somewhat dilapidated piece of public art Mrs. Sherlock exclaimed, “You should know what this it!” I wasn’t sure what exactly she was referring to so she blurted out, “it’s a...
Just a Guy
Mrs. Sherlock wanted to explore in more detail a hike she took with the local Trails Club folks last Wednesday this weekend so we started out here south of Portland in a very affluent neighborho...
Thistle, Millet and Popcorn. Oh, and a Rose...
A late local rose taken this week. I put this up on my Facebook page for my yoga classes a few days ago but I thought it was pretty enough to share here too. Overnight we are about to have a sh...
Rabbits Don’t Live in Hats
You would need to zoom in pretty close here to see the gray brownish blobs to the far right in this shot I took yesterday are gorgeous Sandhill cranes. Kes wanted to go back to Sauvie Island whe...
Self Care and Usefulness
Happy Equinox! The equinoxes are my favorite times of the year because the light is so beautiful. And we have light today after enough rain to get the wildfires mostly under control. The air qua...
Burnout Central (Not Literally) with Lightbulbs
This is the planting across the street at the Under Armor building. When they did the original landscaping they put in about 4 dogwood trees, white dogwoods. They didn’t do the greatest job in p...
Smoke, Self-Acceptance and... Spices
Dried crepe myrtle blossoms with leaf litter from Thursday. Right now it is sort of sunny (with heavy fire haze, we had the red sunrise) and cooler and then tomorrow the rains return. This is g...
Turn Right at the Totem Pole
This is from Sunday morning up on the hill behind my place looking back towards downtown. Later in the day we had enough clearing that one could see Mt. Hood. The fires are still burning but the...
On Board for the Ride
This is the area above the track across the street this morning just after daybreak. The trees are all stressed from the heat and lack of rain but the air quality is much much better. It’s been...
Mask Chic
I took this last year in early July. Right now the whole area is burning. It just breaks my heart. The fire has even jumped the Columbia River and is burning in Washington. Thanks climate change...
It's the Weather, Always the Weather
This is from the top of the local public stairs just after sunrise yesterday. The tram was moving very slowly. The camera “sees” things different than the eye and with the eye the sun appeared m...
Acting in Time
This is from the Hawthorne Bridge looking north over the Willamette River this morning. Mrs. Sherlock did something to the toes on her left foot yesterday and so she had to text me early this m...
This Body, This Day
I took this at dusk last night. You kind of get an idea of how fabulous the light was, the wonderful burst of color from the crepe myrtle, and all the cranes on the South Waterfront along the ri...
The Disgruntled Weather Gods
It is about an 80-minute walk from my place to the grocery store I normally go to if I go the long way. And other than a short cut up the hill behind me that knocks about 15 minutes off there re...
Maybe Forgetting to Take Off the Name Tag Isn't So Bad?
This is from our hike this morning when we came out of the woods into this neighborhood of well-maintained homes with handsome gardens. There was one corner of a front garden that was getting pe...
Not Perfect, Not Permanent, Not Personal
The title today I borrowed from an interview in Yoga Journal with the yoga teacher Lauren Eckstrom that she learned from her meditation teacher Ruth King. I love this little mantra, as it is so ...
Gratitude, Oh Sweet Gratitude
I keep catching glances of sunflowers around town as I pass through on the bus but there are none growing visibly in my immediate neighborhood. So on Sunday I decided to branch out a bit and wal...
Girding Our Loins and a Mosacic
Because my place of employment pays for my Weight Watchers membership and I am hovering at 4 pounds over goal I need to go to meetings even though I often don’t want to. This is not necessarily ...
Transition? Oh I Hope So
Yesterday I got all my stitches out! I had to wait an hour from my appointment time because the surgery my specialist was doing earlier ran long but it was great to get the all clear. Everything...
Changing It Up...Slightly
Yes! An interior shot, hard to believe but true. Now that I am healing (still won’t be able to chew on the right side of my mouth until the holidays) I have decided to make a commitment to reall...
No Matter the Kind of Car
This artichoke going to seed is up on the Portland State campus in front of the iconic Shattuck School building from 1914. I took this a few days ago. My mother was born in 1914 and it feels lik...
That Would Be Something
After I got all worked up (about the various unflattering whining going on out there in the world by men who are using it as an attention grabbing device and acting like they are victims when th...
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