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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 ...


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,...


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...


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 ...


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...


March 08, 2023

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...


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...


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...


February 21, 2023

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...


February 19, 2023

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...


February 17, 2023

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...


February 11, 2023

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...


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 ...


February 01, 2023

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, ...


January 27, 2023

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...


January 25, 2023

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 ...


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...


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...


January 14, 2023

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 ...


January 10, 2023

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...


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...


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...


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...


December 21, 2022

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...


December 18, 2022

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...


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