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Smoke, Self-Acceptance and... Spices in Everyday Ramblings
Dried crepe myrtle blossoms with leaf litter from Thursday. Right now it is sort of sunny (with heavy fire haze, we had the red sunrise) and cooler and then tomorrow the rains return. This is g...
Turn Right at the Totem Pole in Everyday Ramblings
This is from Sunday morning up on the hill behind my place looking back towards downtown. Later in the day we had enough clearing that one could see Mt. Hood. The fires are still burning but the...
On Board for the Ride in Everyday Ramblings
This is the area above the track across the street this morning just after daybreak. The trees are all stressed from the heat and lack of rain but the air quality is much much better. It’s been...
Mask Chic in Everyday Ramblings
I took this last year in early July. Right now the whole area is burning. It just breaks my heart. The fire has even jumped the Columbia River and is burning in Washington. Thanks climate change...
It's the Weather, Always the Weather in Everyday Ramblings
This is from the top of the local public stairs just after sunrise yesterday. The tram was moving very slowly. The camera “sees” things different than the eye and with the eye the sun appeared m...
Acting in Time in Everyday Ramblings
This is from the Hawthorne Bridge looking north over the Willamette River this morning. Mrs. Sherlock did something to the toes on her left foot yesterday and so she had to text me early this m...
This Body, This Day in Everyday Ramblings
I took this at dusk last night. You kind of get an idea of how fabulous the light was, the wonderful burst of color from the crepe myrtle, and all the cranes on the South Waterfront along the ri...
The Disgruntled Weather Gods in Everyday Ramblings
It is about an 80-minute walk from my place to the grocery store I normally go to if I go the long way. And other than a short cut up the hill behind me that knocks about 15 minutes off there re...
Maybe Forgetting to Take Off the Name Tag Isn't So Bad? in Everyday Ramblings
This is from our hike this morning when we came out of the woods into this neighborhood of well-maintained homes with handsome gardens. There was one corner of a front garden that was getting pe...
Not Perfect, Not Permanent, Not Personal in Everyday Ramblings
The title today I borrowed from an interview in Yoga Journal with the yoga teacher Lauren Eckstrom that she learned from her meditation teacher Ruth King. I love this little mantra, as it is so ...
Gratitude, Oh Sweet Gratitude in Everyday Ramblings
I keep catching glances of sunflowers around town as I pass through on the bus but there are none growing visibly in my immediate neighborhood. So on Sunday I decided to branch out a bit and wal...
Girding Our Loins and a Mosacic in Everyday Ramblings
Because my place of employment pays for my Weight Watchers membership and I am hovering at 4 pounds over goal I need to go to meetings even though I often don’t want to. This is not necessarily ...
Transition? Oh I Hope So in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday I got all my stitches out! I had to wait an hour from my appointment time because the surgery my specialist was doing earlier ran long but it was great to get the all clear. Everything...
Changing It Up...Slightly in Everyday Ramblings
Yes! An interior shot, hard to believe but true. Now that I am healing (still won’t be able to chew on the right side of my mouth until the holidays) I have decided to make a commitment to reall...
No Matter the Kind of Car in Everyday Ramblings
This artichoke going to seed is up on the Portland State campus in front of the iconic Shattuck School building from 1914. I took this a few days ago. My mother was born in 1914 and it feels lik...
That Would Be Something in Everyday Ramblings
After I got all worked up (about the various unflattering whining going on out there in the world by men who are using it as an attention grabbing device and acting like they are victims when th...
The Weaker Sex - Ha! (Small Rant) in Everyday Ramblings
I am wondering today if we have perhaps done the men in our lives a disservice by being kind and indulging them in the fantasy that they are stronger and more resilient than women. Sure they are...
The Grinch Stole Puddle Town in Everyday Ramblings
It is so dry out there. Which is profoundly weird here in puddle town. And although we had a bit of a break in bad air quality we are back to smoky air full of particulate matter and not good f...
At the Crossroads in Everyday Ramblings
This is the crossroads at the top of the trail where we turned around on our bike ride on Tuesday. On the ride I was trying to estimate based on how I was feeling how much further I could go and...
Rails to Trails and a View with a Room in Everyday Ramblings
This is also from our hike on Saturday. Just look at the way this house is sited! Wow. I love this picture. It has that windswept forlorn feel but with a big city vibe. It also reminds me a bit ...
A Mini Break (With Elevation) in Everyday Ramblings
As, a young teenager one of the first things I wanted to be when I grew up was an elf. Not a house elf like in Harry Potter but an Elf, as in The Lord of the Rings. My brother, and my boyfriend...
Fie on Them! in Everyday Ramblings
This picture is such a startling visual of the fact that most of the fabulous woods I hike in around here are 2nd growth. All logged by the early Anglo settlers in their voracious appetite for w...
But First a Snack? in Everyday Ramblings
Love the lush color here between the green and the dark yellow. This is from a couple of days ago up on the Portland State campus. I normally stay away from getting too worked up about this stu...
Out and About and Not in Everyday Ramblings
I did take a few pictures yesterday when we were hiking in a local state park (that I have only been around the edges in before) but the pictures all came out generic forest with creek looking. ...
Just a Few More and Relief in Everyday Ramblings
Oh gosh I am so relieved, I just talked to a representative of the city/county tax department and she exempted my yoga business from any penalties or taxes for last year and told me how to handl...
