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It is going to be like this for a few more days. Well, through Monday. I have been out in the very local neighborhood a few times since the big storm. Today, this afternoon, I am venturing to th...

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Now we have light… snow light. This is a scrub jay in for a peanut about an hour ago. Those of you who live in places where snow is normal in winter would be proud of me. I was out there shovel...

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So it has been hard to take pictures for the last few weeks because we have no light. We are in this perpetual heavy cloud cover that moves and morphs and clears in a tiny corner for five minute...

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This is a cottage in the neighborhood that I am fond of taken at this time of year though not today because today we have snow and everything is cancelled. It is warming and raining right this m...

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With dry scouring winds we have finally had some clearing and the mountains are gorgeous if one can stand being out in the wind long enough to view them. We are supposed to get more snow tomorro...

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I think this is a Tilia cordata ‘Winter Orange’. A linden, or a lime? Striking in the fog though. Apparently the colder it is the more orange it gets. They had snow in Salem. We, on yesterday’s...

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Happy New Year! This is the serene small studio at the space where I took the anatomy workshop a few weeks back. It looks almost like it could be on a ship: perhaps an icebreaker. :) It was sup...

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I took this on Christmas morning too. It was one degree above freezing. I wonder how long they are going to let the ivy grow. The paint job looks relatively new. We’ve had this bone chilling fo...

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So I choose these photos as mood pieces but also to show my world. I took this yesterday morning (Christmas Day) on my early walk with my new iPhone. It has the best camera I have now but not m...

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This is Carlo’s favorite toy on his (clearly by the pulled threads) favorite bathmat. I thought it somewhat festive in a feline sort of way. We had cold fog this morning but no rain, and no sno...

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We’ve had fog and sun and cold today but no snow or ice. For this I am truly grateful. Yesterday was the first day where it was possible to get around safely and what a joy it was. You wouldn’t ...

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This is where I have been hanging out having lunch the last few days. They got the tree from a Christmas tree farm, and a couple of the students who are into “Acro Yoga” (or acrobatic yoga) did ...

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I am not distracted, no, that is why I shampooed my hair twice this morning. I am not working, there is snow and a great deal of ice in my world and I am spending time with 45 of my closest new ...

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This is the upper part of the park (with the track that they have been working on for months now) a couple of days ago after the thaw. I think there is a stark beauty here. It is supposed to sta...

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This is late morning today. Today! It was supposed to thaw yesterday. I still couldn’t make it to my own personal grocery store though I did make it to a store and got fruit and eggs and tortill...

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I haven’t been out further than my patio since yesterday morning before the snow to walk up and down the local public stairway to get my Fitbit floors in. The plan was that it was supposed to s...

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One thing that may seem confusing to folks that live somewhere where winter weather is expected and normal and folks are prepared for it is that here in Portland when it snows it is a very very ...

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Say hello to Henry. The picture is what it is, there wasn’t enough light yesterday to get a clear shot without the flash but you get the general idea. He is an engaged little guy. He has long le...

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It is raining but if it weren’t it would look like this right now. I took this around this time a few years ago. With this unusually wet weather one needs to get one’s mood pictures in where one...

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This is an interesting shot that highlights what a workable historic district designation can have on a neighborhood. Both the house on the left and right were built in the late 1800’s. The rent...

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The other morning I was out early and though we had ground fog near the churned up fast flowing muddy river full of broken branches the sharp sliver of the crescent moon was glimmering through t...

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I wanted to get a blanket to use for my personal yoga practice (as opposed to one I share with the cats) and was looking online for something reasonable and I chose a striped green, black and wh...

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This is from Sunday morning too. It is in front of a house that is for sale a few blocks down. They put a lot of money into landscaping this small restored place from the 1800s. I think he was/i...

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When I was reading oral narratives by people who lived in this neighborhood as children they often talk about the fruit trees. Those are apples back there. The trees are actually not on the prop...

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Our Japanese Garden in November. I took this nine years ago. Wow. My Periodontist neglected to tell me that the stitches he used a few weeks ago were resolvable so I have had this background wor...

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