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Our main public square Thursday morning. I was trying to get a shot that included the star on top fully but a man behind me started to talk to me just as I was framing the shot, and I didn’t r...


The sister community garden to mine at sunrise a few days ago. Ours looks the same, blanketed in oak leaves. I am usually in pretty good spirits but this morning after my last class of the w...


November 30, 2024

Back to Basics in Everyday Ramblings

On Wednesday morning after class I walked downtown to the League office for our discussion unit meeting and to get some invoices signed. I took this then. The far building is where my gym is a...


November 28, 2024

An Unexpected Gift in Everyday Ramblings

Thanksgiving. Went for a little walk after class this morning. A cheerful group showing up for the holiday. This is the park across the way, and the new play equipment. At some point during ...


Well, so much for leaving notes while I was on my patient advocacy sojourn up north. There were excessive stimulus and information streams, and decisions and logistics involved in what looked...


November 16, 2024

Rainy Day in Everyday Ramblings

From this morning, a rare dry patch where I managed to get out for a short walk by myself. These are anemone seed pods. Mr. Sherlock has been in the hospital most of the week. A crazy thing ...


November 10, 2024

My Own Reckoning in Everyday Ramblings

I took this walking home from the dentist on Friday. Without my stitches. Yay. Everything is good. I will get my teeth cleaned in January but next steps on this implant aren’t until May. Doubl...


I noticed after class this morning Carlo was not in any of his usual spots. Hmm, I wondered where could he have gone? Undercover, is where. Sort of where I would like to be. When I walked i...


I take these leaf pictures every year because I love the random patterns and colors and the mix. This is from a few days ago. The leaves are pretty much all down now, we had quite the wind yes...


The clothes dryer here hasn’t been operational for about 10 days. I realize that many of you don’t have dryers but here pretty much everyone has them and we are not used to line or rack drying...


October 26, 2024

Rich and Robust in Everyday Ramblings

I live up there in these trees. I took this yesterday from the top floor of the dental school building as I was waiting for my implant surgery. When I talk about going up on the “hill” you now...


I think this was Tuesday morning on the path heading up from the track bathed in cool clear fall light. I was determined to get out and about just after my morning class so that I could get my...


October 12, 2024

Peak Capacity in Everyday Ramblings

The yellow is lovely, this lemony burst of color into an autumn morning. The leaves are really starting to turn here and this week, although it has been colder it has been dry and therefore be...


Morning fog over one of our reservoirs. Mrs. Sherlock asked where we should walk Saturday morning, and I suggested up by here. There is some elevation but not too much. She says she is fully r...


As it grows my odd little eggplant gets more purple and less white. They are saying, (not those that control the weather, MTG), but those who report on it, that we are going to have a wet fall...


Mirabilis jalapa, or four o’clock flower, just across from my plot in the community garden. The brother-in-law of the woman who has had this series of plots for years told me a couple of seaso...


September 27, 2024

History and Energy in Everyday Ramblings

If you look carefully in the distance, you can see Mt. Hood not fully covered in snow. I took this yesterday on my way back from getting my annual hearing test. It was up on the “hill”, and th...


A mess of autumn light with a few pink dahlias at the garden just after sunrise a few days back. The garden was also quite beautiful this morning. We are having an unusually warm and bright da...


September 20, 2024

Fall-ing in Everyday Ramblings

Windfall? More like neglect. This is the public path to the scary low lit curved pedestrian tunnel beneath some of the roads they built in my neighborhood under the guise of urban renewal. It ...


From our “easy” walk this morning across town. Mrs. Sherlock was excited that her sense of smell has fully returned. She came to my weights and bands class on Thursday raring to go and I am, n...


September 11, 2024

Back on that Horse in Everyday Ramblings

I took this in a hurry as I was rushing off to a meeting, but you get the gist of another of the painted cats to celebrate the anniversary of the movie Coraline. This one for some reason is ca...


September 07, 2024

Not So Lowbrow? in Everyday Ramblings

My compost pile. It looks artful but it is random. Still, I did think about taking a picture of it. I am grateful to say that I did not get Covid, even with the direct exposure. Mrs. Sherloc...


September 02, 2024

Sweet Indeed in Everyday Ramblings

From this morning. One of the 31 Coraline themed painted cats in our central downtown area. This one is called Descent and is on the Portland State campus. I walked by there after a trip in ...


This almost looks like an artist’s rendering of a fancy new cityscape, but I took the shot Wednesday from the 11th floor breast health clinic of a newer building of the health organization I u...


August 23, 2024

Recharge? in Everyday Ramblings

A Cosmo in the garden. Fully recovered from the deluge last Saturday. Big relief. The eggplant are growing, and I have these adorable tiny green bell peppers coming on. The garden, while small...


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