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A Small Business Milestone
Rain and red berries and twinkly lights as a kick off to the winter season even though we have a few weeks to go before we get there officially. Sorry about the polemic approach to my post Sund...
Hog Wild (But Modestly)
This is the west side of the Steel Bridge yesterday morning at 8:30AM. There was a whole crew of runners passing by because as you can see it was not raining but if you look closely you can see ...
This Grateful Heart
Wednesday late afternoon on my way to class. Yesterday afternoon in Salem with Jack and Henry. Those are heated cat beds there under those towels in front of the gas fireplace. My brother-in-l...
The Storm Before the Calm
This is some trash left by some folks living rough nearby. There is a lot of homeless activity near this unattended parking lot right up next to the freeway that borders downtown. Cars get broke...
Accepting Absence
This is my kitchen window this morning, this bleak and dreary morning. If you look carefully you will see a tree stump, a fresh tree stump close to the ground on the left. I came home on Thursd...
Extrapolate! Please.
I must have taken this Tuesday as it rained hard all day Wednesday and most of yesterday. I am hanging on here to any color in the environment I come across and although most of the trees are ba...
Late Tree Beauty and Fierce Determination
This was yesterday morning walking across the Hawthorne Bridge from the east side towards downtown. While everything here is now mostly bare or yellow there are still pockets of ornamental trees...
A Burst of Energy and Uncivil Society
It is not like I didn’t know this already but once again today I clearly understood that if I actually do whatever it is I am actively procrastinating on a great deal of energy is released and b...
Simple Joys and Learning to Surf (Metaphorically)
I took this Sunday morning walking over the big hill to the grocery just at sunrise. Mrs. Sherlock is in Japan and she sent me an email yesterday saying that she had ended up at the same hotel ...
My New Guardian
This was yesterday just after work. And vacuuming the living room. And taking the beets I had roasting out of the oven. No doubt about what season it is here. Most Honorable came up this morni...
Spiritual Bypass
I took this on Tuesday when I went down to get my new glasses. It is raining now and will for maybe four days so not so conducive to taking pictures, at least outside. Besides working and teach...
A Shark Shaped Kite and a Lack of Ambition
I took this yesterday afternoon but right now I am sitting stretched out on a love seat looking out the big windows of our modest rental at the same scene. You’d have to be from around here to n...
A Clean Fridge, Crested Berry Eater and a Long Tail
We did get out to the island on Sunday to sneak in a little birding. It was very relaxing. We were a little frustrated because we weren’t seeing much and then we went to this one spot where ther...
La La La, A Gazillion Things to Do
The same local trees from the other side a mile or so away about the same time the next day, Friday. We had record-breaking rain and flash floods yesterday so I didn’t take any pictures. It was ...
Blurry, But in a Good Way
Yesterday afternoon from the 11th floor of our outpatient clinic building where I was getting my eyes checked. The picture is blurry because the light was so low but after I had my eyes dilated ...
The Worst in Me
This is the center of the Portland State campus yesterday early evening on the way to class. My perception is that we are barreling through October at breakneck speed and headed smack into Novem...
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...
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