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Even a Little Blue Sky Helps in Everyday Ramblings
We finally have blue sky again this afternoon, at least for a couple of days, and can see our late spring beginning to unfold. I have the departure dates cleared for the displacement from my ...
Ebb and Flow in Everyday Ramblings
From across the street two days ago. This morning it snowed. I am sorry but that is against the rules. Has the weather gone rogue? We all know the answer to that question. It was pretty snow,...
Happens to the Best of Us in Everyday Ramblings
A fading but lovely hellebore in the morning light with a bunch of sturdy daffodils. Finally, we are seeing spring, just past the equinox. The trees have started budding, the crocuses opening...
Things Gotten Up Too in Everyday Ramblings
We finally had some beautiful, even kind of warmish, sun and the local crocuses opened up yesterday. Makes a winter weary heart sing. Besides teaching my classes I got a few things done this ...
One Can But Dream in Everyday Ramblings
We have sunshine. It is only partial, and it will only last a few hours but what a welcome visitation. We had snow and sleet yesterday at the higher elevations here in the city. I am being lazy...
Who Knows? in Everyday Ramblings
I can almost tastes the orange here. It is still cold and wet, but after today it is supposed to warm up and stay above freezing maybe even for the season. It is about time. And it looks like t...
Roll With It, Baby in Everyday Ramblings
A bit of a contrast with the snow in the last post. I did take this today, in a spot that I have been watching for weeks looking for signs of spring. When I went out in the weak sunshine, walki...
Our "Weather Event" in Everyday Ramblings
It may not look like it here in this shot of the empty house across the street, but we had a record-breaking snowfall (since 1943) on Wednesday. It is now Saturday, and everything is still not h...
And Here We Are in Everyday Ramblings
The hellebores are finally coming on. It’s raining today. We need it. Thank you all for your condolences. Carlo is doing fine. We are a little shy around each other getting used to it being onl...
Adios in Everyday Ramblings
That is Diego on the left, a relatively recent picture. He died last night. It was probably a stroke, a blot clot cut loose. He died in the carrier on my lap on the way to the emergency vet. Th...
Cut Loose in Everyday Ramblings
It is Friday afternoon, and I just recently received an email about the work on my outside wall… “I am writing to inform our residents that there has been a delay in the exterior repairs schedul...
Show and Tell in Everyday Ramblings
Will you look at that sky? It is the most beautiful thing. We had clear skies almost all day on Thursday. And it was not cold! It wasn’t warm, but it also wasn’t cold. I have had the biggest ou...
Peace, Love, Understanding and Rascals in Everyday Ramblings
If you look closely at the center of the picture you can see beautiful Mt. Hood past the river. The days we get to see her all snow clad in the winter are rare and always worth celebrating. One ...
Annoyed in Everyday Ramblings
From a walk this morning just after class. Fabulous light. I had to get out of the house. There are so many benefits to being a renter and I have a nice apartment but…First it was the painters, ...
Ready or Not in Everyday Ramblings
This is from January 27th a number of years ago when I was out wandering about this city that I live in. I haven’t been taking that many pictures this year. It is a combination of the gloomy col...
Never, Ever in Everyday Ramblings
I took this on the 25th of January 2014. Nine years ago. On a walk, just across the river. I wouldn’t do that walk on my own anymore. Too many unsheltered and drug addled folks over there to be ...
Apparently, I am the Girl in Everyday Ramblings
Random photo from a walk on Tuesday when it was dry. Yay. It is supposed to be dry again today. Nice. I am getting pretty comfortable in my rain pants though, so it feels a bit easier to be out...
Out in the Expanding Universe in Everyday Ramblings
A view of the river the other direction from up top the hill in the background in the photo from the last post. A break in the rain. We even had a little bit of blue sky yesterday. Diego is stab...
In Stitches in Everyday Ramblings
The view from the Faculty Dental office yesterday. My place is just out of frame to the left. I have to cross all those freeways to get down to the clinic. We have pedestrian bridges. They tore ...
Wired in Everyday Ramblings
This is the view from the clinic where I go for speech therapy. The Willamette river and the old shipyards, which are now being taken over by the medical complex I used to work for. The building...
Back in the Swing in Everyday Ramblings
This is the Halls Hill Lookout & Labyrinth on Bainbridge Island. It is a commissioned art piece that you can walk on and feel the wind and the quiet from the inlet below. We took the island...
Here's to a Better Year in Everyday Ramblings
A not quite iconic view of the Seattle waterfront from a ferry on Puget Sound Thursday afternoon. I have had pointed out to me that Bainbridge Island is actually bigger in land mass than Manhatt...
Settling for Reasonable in Everyday Ramblings
Love the cream color of this camelia I captured from a walk a few days ago. Right before the sleet/ice/snow extravaganza that kept me housebound for a couple of days. There were spots all over t...
Glitter or Not in Everyday Ramblings
Enough already with the leaves you might find yourself saying, but these are special leaves from a giant Scarlet oak that is over 200 years old and has presided over a view of the river, shelter...
Angels? in Everyday Ramblings
This is a Euonymus japonicus ‘Silver Queen’, or that is my best guess. I started reading this book, The Grove, A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens and the first plant the author recognizes af...
