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Yep. I know this shot I took today of our Central Library is blurry. That is because there is not much light here… even midday. Glare, we have plenty of glare; I’d be happy to share… really. Hey...

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This is an arrangement in stone in front the artist/historian’s house I was chatting with last week. Everything on his property is artfully arranged. When I was talking to him he was digging out...

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Early Sunday I received a text from S. that she still wasn’t feeling up for a walk and said she hoped to see me in my public class Monday. I was disappointed as I was going to meet her at church...

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It is cold here. There is a heated cat bed wrapped up in that towel. Carlo has made a tent under it. Unlike his brother; Carlo does not have a heavy undercoat. He can hang out there and look out...

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This is right next to the Hawthorne Bridge on the beginning of the East bank Esplanade. There is a new fire house and rescue boat launch here but it is also a lively meeting place for skateboard...

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Our weather pattern is certainly changing. We have heavy rain for a few days and then we have gorgeous cold days where the low sun comes in under the leaves of the huge historic copper beech up ...

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An urban scene here, this is the courtyard at the Portland Art Museum. I walk by here a number of times a week, including last night. The trees are spectacular even as we turn towards winter. Af...

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We are coming out of a handful of very wet days. We need the rain and I am not complaining but the dark and blowing splat in the face rain has felt, well, effortful. I have what I call my “rain...

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I am typing this on my laptop, my poor old refurbished laptop, with a cat curled up against each hip. The boys just completed the after dinner snack bath ritual. We like routine around here, app...

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It is one of these days here, low light, damp and almost dark even though the clock says it is before noon. Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of when I brought these handsome rascals home wi...

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We are going through the last gasp of fall here with most of the trees either bare or much denuded of leaves but every once in a while there is a pocket of colorful beauty. It has been a wet mes...

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So Sunday morning the sun sort of came out just after dawn and our time change and I put on all my raingear and went out on the beach for a walk. It was the first blue sky we had seen all weeken...

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This is Patience. She is a Western Gull. Her territory, (along with Bob her mate) is the house on the beach on the Oregon Coast I go to twice a year. She is not proud. She struts up and down alo...

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This is a picture I took a few days ago of an ivy-covered wall of this wonderful Spanish style condo building built into the hill about two blocks from here. The tramline runs silently above it....

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Burr. It is cold and damp and we are firmly entrenched in fall. My volunteer coordinator is taking a rare vacation next week and told everyone that Tuesday night was my last night teaching on t...

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I took this yesterday morning with my phone. Sorry about the blur, it was a low light day full of glare. I was walking west across the new bridge and it is interesting to me that I had taken alm...

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So very late we are finally seeing dahlias here in my neighborhood. I took this a few days ago. The colors are so unexpected this time of year. If you look carefully into the glare to the left o...

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I took this shot a while back but the light looks just like this out there now with fabulous rays touching on brilliant colors. On Saturday morning we did this exercise in Weight Watchers about...

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When I am out and about I try to be fully present and not off in some story in my head. As most of you are aware who know me here, because I take the bus places I am often a bit early where I am...

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I only have 18 more days keeping to this schedule, this crazy schedule that is doing a number on my ability to focus and be fully present. This morning I worked very intensely, then taught and ...

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“I heard that Sri Krishnamacharya liked to say that when you are doing asana the quality of your attention should be similar to when you try to take a loose eyelash out of your eye.” Olga, my te...

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It was a gorgeous mild day here today. It is a bit disconcerting to see through the haze the mountains that are normally so startlingly white this time of year and to know they have no snow on t...

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Is this not a lovely door? I like the whole picture, the reflections and the shapes but mostly I like the door. My cohort at work St. Joe went to school for a time at the college in Southern Or...

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Here we have one of the buildings the art students at Portland State University use. This mural is new and painted over the previous not particularly attractive one which I have a picture of som...

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The cats have been driving me slightly crazy lately. I feed them their wet food dinner at 4:30 and about an hour before that if I am working at home they start agitating for food. Diego walks ac...

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