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Unlike the rest of the Northern Hemisphere we are actually getting our first sustained winter storm coming in just about now. There was an inch and a half of water on the big street near me on ...

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We had a stiff cold breeze yesterday that blew a lot of the crud out of the air and we had some partial clearing in the late afternoon. This morning though the heavy 100% humidity living in a c...

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This is the winter version of the beautiful garden I went birding at a few weeks ago. It looks (and feels) just like this here now. We have an air stagnation advisory in place and they keep ex...

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The gorgeous Miss E. in all her thirteen year oldness. Glued to her iPad Mini. My oldest sister (her grandmother) was sitting in a chair next to her knitting a loose weave scarf in a gold ton...

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Happy Christmas to you all as it unfolds around the world! And how cool is it that for now the diary is working and we can share these good wishes with each other both here and there. I am wo...

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It was good to read those who have been able to post with big life events going on during the last few weeks this morning. I could do that because not only is OD back up for some mysterious un...

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I so thoroughly enjoyed not working this weekend, I kept exclaiming, oh, I have time to go to the gym, oh I have time to work on the new poem, oh, I can go to this month’s poetry reading and ev...

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I spent three hours this morning over at the pond filled Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden with a group of folks from the bird stuff store I go to. This all puffed up Great Blue Heron was so...

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Wednesday night it was unexpectedly dry as well as being quite cold so I walked the river at dusk to get over to my Weight Watchers meeting. This grainy shot is from my phone of the 101 year ol...

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This is a kind of big leaf ivy dying back against a concrete wall on an upscale beautifully landscaped condo a few blocks away. Other leaves caught in the vines. This neighborhood is such a mi...

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Somehow this photo just seemed the perfect representation of the intersection between the winter holidays, the pumpkin and the wreath and the broken down bare brachness of it all. We are havin...

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Sammy has been purring and doing his Yoda imitation. With the weather turning cold all the time he would prefer to be on me as much as possible. This makes it challenging to be active. I worke...

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My neighborhood is all chopped up with freeways and bridges and roads that are not suitable for pedestrian crossing so I have learned to love the little residential pockets I can walk in. There...

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I walked by this tree a few days ago and almost all the leaves are down. I took this last Sunday. The light has changed since then. It has a much more pewter winter look to it now. Yellow is th...

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Right now we are having a welcome sun break but I like the water droplets on the leaves in the street shot here and how they catch the light. We had an old water main break here in downtown Po...

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According to the forecast today is our last day of light for at least a week. It will warm up a tad bit and get dark and wet. But for right this moment we have beautiful light from the south an...

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I took this photo a few hours ago. I was wandering around in the dark last night trying to get in a little last minute activity before the end of the day and I spied this tree. None of these h...

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chthonic. (some folks say the ch is silent) concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld. "a chthonic deity" “Snappers were the old gods—chthonic, ugly, and crude—who’d been dethron...

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I have taken a picture of these trees in the park up the hill a block from me every year this time for at least four years and I think the one this year is my favorite because of the quality of...

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Wow. I have been so busy and OD had been so wonky so every time I have a free moment to check in the site isn’t working. Even though I am mirroring here on Prosebox I miss the connection with ...

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I took this hazy fall field shot last Saturday down by the fast flowing river on a walk with Kes. We had the sun at our backs and that was delightful after the storms. It turned cold after that...

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So I went to see the doctor this last week about this sharp pain I am getting in my right thigh where it connects to my pelvis when I am in the process of standing up. It is getting better bu...

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We are not going to have any trouble building up our snow pack this year. It has been raining cats, dogs, and tigers and bears out there. We have some minor flooding now, and lots and lots of t...

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In The Emotional Life of Your Brain by Richard J. Davidson he talks about how folks have different emotional styles that can be measured by brain activity. These are not fixed but there are ten...

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Every once in awhile lately the diary actually works like it used to and one can actually zip around and leave notes and then… Thanks for all your wonderful notes both here and on OD. Your th...

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