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10 Minute Increments
It is raining again but yesterday it didn’t. What a difference having a day without rain makes now and then. I am struggling with time management this week. There isn’t enough of it with the ti...
Crowns!
Sad but hopeful, this tall daffodil casting a shadow yesterday morning… today we are back to rain and it is supposed to rain all week. At the dental school this morning there was much joking ar...
Desperate for Color
I am so desperate for color in this dark wet gray world that I hope you can forgive me for posting a crocus picture yet again. Don’t tell anyone but today we had some intermittent sun and so far...
So Now How To Further the Cause?
This is one of my favorite gardens in the neighborhood. Those are tulip leaves there in the pot. Battered and full of glare the daffodils are finally beginning to bloom and although the crocuses...
A Good Day
It is raining and snowing. Sigh. Luckily it isn’t sticking. I was very cautious yesterday about committing myself to being out and about and even though I did use buses judiciously I still ende...
Civility and Dystopia and a Mad Man in Charge
We had a break in the rain yesterday morning for a few hours and under quite changeable skies I was able to get this shot of some decorative trees starting to bloom in an empty parking lot I was...
A Quick Take and Mood Modification
Okay, so I took this last year at this time. It is so dark and wet out now that even though the trees are beginning to bud it is not possible to get a picture. I saw the yellow of a daffodil hea...
The Late Winter Blues
Just in case you didn’t get the memo…we have had almost four times our normal rainfall this month. FOUR TIMES! Record breaking, more rain than has been ever recorded before rain. And, oh, guess...
Old Lady Talk and a Breakthrough
Hmmm. The new (expertly installed, ha, so says Diego) modem is faster but it is not as stable as the old one. I just had a minor apoplectic moment where I thought I was going to need to go into ...
The Life Domestic
I took this yesterday during a brief break in the rain. They are my favorite crocuses in the neighborhood and they are late coming up this year. We are having an absurd amount of rain. One has t...
An Unexpected Encounter With a Waterfall
This is Cedar Mill Falls in a suburban area near Portland, an upscale suburban neighborhood near Nike and Intel. Mrs. Sherlock asked me in class last night if I wanted to go for a group hike thi...
From the Idyllic to the Disturbing and Back
This is a shot of iconic Reed College from Sunday. It is raining hard right now so I am not taking many pictures. I suspect the pink balloons are a hold over from the Women’s March but that is a...
Metaphorical Winter and Signs of Spring
Things that make me happy today… It is not raining! The crocuses are finally starting to appear. (I took this yesterday noon.) When I was waiting for the bus after the final concert of the fest...
Transcendent Beauty and Limitations
So this is where I spent part of my day yesterday, St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The Cathedral was built in this location in 1926 and was fully restored to this more modern ...
Daring to Hope?
In the quest for marketing materials I started taking pictures of the new studio. Folks moan and groan about coming downtown at rush hour but they love the studio. But Mrs. Sherlock cut it too s...
Out in The World
I took this Saturday in the neighborhood. People are always doing whimsical things like this around here if you look carefully. This is a utility pole next to a bus stop. That is the busy street...
Bypassing the Snow Directly to Ice
We just skipped the snow and went right to ice on Thursday night. Other than to change out the bird food on the patio I did not go out at all yesterday. I canceled my class, which made me sad, a...
Speaking Strictly as a Proud Snowflake
I heard in a factual news report this morning that Stephen Bannon, the White House advisor responsible for the inauguration speech and immigration ban calls people like me “Liberal Snowflakes”. ...
About the Man in the Women’s Restroom
On Friday I had two students in class. It was fun because I can pay a lot of attention to them both and use props to support and encourage the particular needs of their bodies. They know each ot...
About the Demoralized Thing...
This is the back of St Michael the Archangel Church, the oldest Catholic Church in Portland. This building is from 1894. The history goes back further but in a small chapel that was moved two ti...
The Sleeping Giant Stirs
This afternoon I crossed the big street near my place to get to the bus stop I need to use to get to my regular grocery store because the regular closer bus stop has been decommissioned in respo...
Mass Civility Breaks Out
This was before the rain got to a steady soaking chord and made it difficult to get decent pictures. I was right in the middle of the staging area and all by myself because there were so many pe...
If You Listen Carefully, You Can Hear Spring
This is the sidewalk in front of my place this morning. I went out to take this picture with no grippers on my shoes. No grippers! First time in 8 days. Even though the thaw started Tuesday afte...
My Marshmallow
On Christmas day as we were all meeting each other and sampling lovely snacks and sipping wine before dinner I brought up the famous study that was done back in the day about willpower and self-...
Oh Look! Snow. Sigh
My new inside joke…Oh look! There is snow on the ground. I can tell the progress of the thaw my how much of my mud man is exposed. This was about an hour ago. This is Day 5 of the aftermath of o...
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