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Democracy and the Language Police in Everyday Ramblings
This is a shot from the track I walk on (and sometimes run on) a half block from my place. It was built over a dump that filled in a gulch that had a creek running down to the Willamette River, ...
Glorious Light in the Isolation Chamber in Everyday Ramblings
This is one of our older way too well used bridges. I took this shot Friday from the new bridge. It was such a beautiful fall day and we are having another one of those today. We did have one ni...
The Unexpected Appearance of the Abrupt Idiom in Everyday Ramblings
This is the new bridge yesterday afternoon just after work. S. came over and met me here and we walked from West to East and then did a big loop along the river crossing back again over the Stee...
Middle Earth in Everyday Ramblings
We are at that transition point of late summer early fall. Overcast and glare, the air like the ocean full of cool and warm currents, crickets in the early evening and chestnuts breaking open on...
Noko, House Mother in Everyday Ramblings
Sorry. No pictures of the girls yet. It is crazy in Portland this weekend. The New York Times posted one of their 36 Hours features set here in our fair city late last week and the first new bri...
The Remembering Dates Slippage Thing in Everyday Ramblings
I took this shot Monday over in another part of town where the dahlias and the hollyhocks were robust this year. These plants are in a big vibrant community garden. Instead of getting all het u...
What is Up with the Noise Level? in Everyday Ramblings
As today is a holiday the buses are running less frequently and with inexperienced drivers. To get to the studio to teach this morning I had to leave early and so I brought my camera with me. It...
Markers of Autumn in Everyday Ramblings
The cats are wrestling on the bed. They do a little more of this than I am comfortable with, but they don’t hurt each other and eventually they stop. The big thing is that they throw off a lot o...
Those of Us that Love You in Everyday Ramblings
There is a satisfying balance here between the bunny (hopeful) and the fall leaves (transitional). One of our big fires is completely contained but others are still burning. But after days of cl...
In There Somewhere in Everyday Ramblings
This is the rooming house across the way just a week shy of a year ago. It is the building that was hand painted recently. It is now beige with a medium brown (with a greenish tinge) trim. Becau...
As the Season Changes... in Everyday Ramblings
This is an apartment house, very bare bones, built in 1890. It was just off the commercial street. It has eight tiny units. We have a college of Naturopathic medicine in the old neighborhood sch...
Fits and Starts Odds and Ends in Everyday Ramblings
This is part of the path I take when I walk the neighborhood in the morning. Those are a couple of magnificent trees to the right and from the top of the path if one looks out carefully behind t...
Giving Voice and Burning in Everyday Ramblings
The big news here of course is the fires. The heartbreaking scary drought and wind fueled wildfires. Yesterday the air here in Portland was bad. The whole city smelled like it was on fire and th...
Toad, Larry and the Toy Box in Everyday Ramblings
I took this shot a couple of days ago and I like it because except for the wire in the upper left corner (and yes I know I could have modified that out of the picture) and the modern rain draina...
Unexpected Politeness in Everyday Ramblings
“It must have frustrated Devi as well, though she never wrote a word about it—a depressed, deadbeat, married Russian boyfriend wouldn’t have been helpful to the image she was cultivating.” Miche...
Hand Painted Good News in Everyday Ramblings
I know there is glare and it is a little blurry but you get a sense of the bright blooming Crape (Crepe, I am seeing it spelled both ways) Myrtle here against the freshly painted blue house. A n...
Us Privileged Few in Everyday Ramblings
I’ve walked by this sign a number of times and just assumed it said something about the historic home converted into offices to the left. The other morning I actually read it. Ah. A building t...
Overview and Wittering About Local Trees in Everyday Ramblings
I took this from the aerial tram on this day, six years ago. I must have been working or doing something for Mr. Finch, as I believe this was right after he had the brain surgery. It was certain...
Less Than Perfect. Oh Yeah in Everyday Ramblings
I have discovered that tart cherry juice (apparently good for overuse inflammation) and vodka are a nice pairing. :) This is sort of an anti-glamour shot of the red cottage. As far as I know it ...
Hot Town in Everyday Ramblings
Our dahlias aren’t doing so well this year here in my neighborhood but in other places they are thriving. This over-bright shot pretty much suits the glare filled humid hot town late summer in t...
Luck, Faith and Will in Everyday Ramblings
All I really want to do is read and write, practice yoga and teach a bit, take photos, hang out with the cats, go for long walks and the occasional run, eat good food and spend time with folks t...
The Through Line II 1968 in Everyday Ramblings
The men have taken the full pot of soup up to the park again. With this next baby due so soon I can’t carry much of anything except the twins. They manage to attach themselves, as if by magic,...
Becoming Real in Everyday Ramblings
This shot with the light starting to slant towards the equinox and with ragged wildflowers suits my mood today. I have been thinking about retirement from full time employment on and off for a n...
Running the Numbers in a Good Way in Everyday Ramblings
I talked to the young man with the surfboard that lives next door to this house when I was taking the picture last weekend. I am not sure who lives here now but it is not being rented and it is ...
A Digression in Contrasts in Everyday Ramblings
“This is one of the oldest structures in the area, built in 1876. It became a boarding house where over time several Hebrew School teachers lived as well as a dance teacher.” I took this yesterd...