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Okay, I admit I didn’t even now there was this island in the mouth of the Columbia River out by the Pacific Ocean. It is quite rural and because it is full of waterways and so close to big water...

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Again, from a couple of years ago, except for a few outliers, this was not a good year for roses here. They used a special kind of anesthetic spray on the back of mouth yesterday as well as the...

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Okay, I admit this is from this time last year. We have had drizzle and low light the last few days and I love the light here. Not that the layer upon layer of clouds and the silver glare out th...

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So far, so good, on the Paris adventure. We are all holding our breath, metaphorically speaking, and hoping for the best. Well, except for Miss E. She is I am sure, totally immersed in all the n...

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It has been a busy week and it will probably stay this way until the 4th of July holiday here. First it was so hot one could barely function and now it is refreshingly cool and kind of sort of w...

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After a run of record-breaking heat, we are supposed to cool down this evening. Everybody I know is ready for that even though we will be sad to see the sun go away. It feels as if a desert plan...

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I love this late spring mash up of lilies and clematis a few blocks away and yesterday the light was finally okay to get a decent shot. As we move towards the equinox in a few weeks it is more d...

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This is what it looks like out there in my world now as the end of spring extravagance blooms forth. We had a lovely rain night before last, which was much appreciated as the pollen counts have ...

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So last year the day after Memorial Day is when I started this dental extravaganza. It is probably a good thing I did not know where it was all going to lead. I am adapting to the soft foods th...

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(warning…this entry is full of superlatives… :) This is the Columbia River Gorge from Larch Mountain. If you know anything about Oregon, one of our main tourist attractions is Multnomah Falls, w...

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I took this last week across the street at the track. It is Ceanothus ‘Victoria’ and a super bee attractor. It is quite fragrant even to us mere humans with our limited ability to differentiate ...

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I believe I only went to one poetry workshop with Mr. Finch. Most often it was one or the other of us and then there was intensive sharing and debriefing afterwards. We went to readings together...

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I took this midmorning today up in the hills. This is the side yard of the castle house, the folly house that had the giant chocolate Easter bunny in the yard a year ago. I have been doing a lot...

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The ruffles, and almost sewn quality of this iris are pretty cool. Plus I love the color of white with the subtle violet blue undertone. Sometime today would you eat a few nuts, maybe a cracker...

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It is quite lush out there in my world. Yesterday was totally overcast with layer upon layer of cloud and cool but there was no rain. I am getting hardly any birds at my feeder array but what I ...

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Stating the obvious, we are still sad about Leo. And for MJ from OD in Toronto, who did not make the transition to Prosebox but is still in touch with many of us on Facebook. She lost her hands...

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This picture makes me happy. I suppose I could crop it slightly to move the flowers a bit off center but for now I am enjoying the composition. If you get bored easily with pretty flower picture...

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This is for Jinn. Lupines in another garden here. So imagine you have this repetitive task you have to do everyday. It is critical for the thing you need to do. It takes focus and is time consu...

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This is the same meridian or parkway strip I took the last arty blurry photo of. I went back yesterday with the camera midday when there was actually light. I wanted to reshoot a bunch of angles...

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The reason this picture has that painterly blur to it is that I took it just after dawn yesterday and there was not quite enough light. This messy colorful front garden seems appropriate on this...

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Back to pretty iris again. I feel like I could swim in the light here. I think it a gift that as (my parents encouraged an interest in art and painting in me as a small child and the fact that I...

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Our last sunset at the beach this trip. Sigh. So after my encounter with the screaming indignant woman two weeks ago I have been thinking a lot about my neighborhood and the changes happening he...

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This was yesterday morning. We had a full spectrum of weather for our three days and change at the beach. Today it was sunny and warm and the beach was significantly more crowded than it is in t...

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Thursday I went to the eye doctor for a check-in to make sure my eye had healed well after Diego scratched it months ago. I had asked the wonderful funny doctor, an associate professor I met the...

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This is the Terwilliger Lilac Garden. I had walked by it on Sunday with just my phone and smelled the heavenly scent so I went back yesterday midday with my camera. The light was pretty intense ...

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