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1888 –The It Year Here in Everyday Ramblings
1888 –The It Year Here I am having so much fun. It is like a big old jigsaw puzzle that I am putting together from various angles. What amazes me is how remarkably easy it is to talk to folks ab...
All I Know. Not Much. in Everyday Ramblings
It took a measuring tape, a saw and over three hours but I now have a perfectly installed brand new stainless steel electric stove. It is, of course, way too hot to cook anything. It was over 10...
Every Purpose Under Heaven in Everyday Ramblings
To everything, turn turn turn, there is a season… Even though it is the height of summer here the chestnuts on the big trees a few blocks down are getting ready to fall. I have tried to get som...
Abandoned and The Wrong Size in Everyday Ramblings
“Anna Crocker lived in this house. She was a bright and talented portrait artist and respected supporter of the arts. After graduating from the Art Students League in New York, William Ladd appo...
As the Chestnuts Prepare to Rain Down in Everyday Ramblings
I took this with my phone yesterday so have less control over sizing it. This is the mystery apartment building from the front. It looks so normal from this angle but there is just yard and hill...
Past and Future and Mostly Now in Everyday Ramblings
This is a shot of the top of the old oddly sited apartment house from behind and the red of the cottage placed at the rear on the street side and the cottage next door, all of which are from the...
The Path In in Everyday Ramblings
This is the path back and the only way to get to the apartment house in the previous post. So I guess, unless they turned the building around (which appears to have been possible here) the cotta...
The Spark House and All Those Unanswered Questions in Everyday Ramblings
In birding circles here in the United States we sometimes ask each other what our “spark bird” was. That would be for me a juvenile hawk in my former neighborhood. Crows are numerous over there...
Shifting Perspective in Everyday Ramblings
I’ve come to the conclusion that this is my favorite house in the neighborhood, at least for right now. I am going to place my second poem in the cycle here. It is on the corner of the big busy ...
Feline Distraction in Everyday Ramblings
Sometimes working at home can be a bit challenging.
Kind of Like the Birds in Everyday Ramblings
First, I apologize for the glare. That is how it looks out there. In one of the conversations I had lately with neighbors, someone told me that there was a stanchion from the old railroad that s...
The Ladies’ Society in Everyday Ramblings
Clearly I need a timeline. Pretty soon my place is going to look like one of those pictures you see of a writer’s study, with the charts on the wall of timelines and maps and… well you get the p...
The Importance of Books in Everyday Ramblings
This is Tad’s house. He is the artist that wrote the electronic book on South Portland that I have been drawing a lot of material from on my “project”. While I was working on my poem this week ...
No rain yet. It looked like maybe we would get some yesterday but now they are saying more dry weather but at least the temperatures are moderate, not nauseatingly blast furnace hot like we had ...
A Brief Break in the Action in Everyday Ramblings
Here is another house portrait. A quiet woman, in her fifties with a small dog that does not like cats lives here. My impression is that she is a widow. I don’t know why, she seems complete in a...
Beloved and Brave (with some ritual draining of Blood) in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday evening after returning from Salem where I spent an easy relaxing day with Kes and Most Honorable I still needed some activity so even though it was hot (we are ready for a break now t...
A Surreal Scare and an Indulgence in Everyday Ramblings
This is a detail on the garage of a house around the corner. The house was built for one woman and then the house next door, which is almost identical, were occupied at one point by a woman in o...
Title: I took this yesterday out in the neighborhood. Like everywhere else we are having unusual weather, it has been dry hot and muggy and Sunday was a particularly miserable example of that ...
Racoons, Party of Five in Everyday Ramblings
Title: I like this picture of some almost hidden architectural detail of a porch in my neighborhood. It is interesting now after seven years of wandering around with some sort of device that co...
Op Art Dresses and the Corrupt Mayor in Everyday Ramblings
So this is the mimosa tree I mentioned recently. I found another smaller one across the property two lots down to make four altogether. I am most curious about these trees. This is the house Ear...
Decluttering the Worry Table in Everyday Ramblings
Not the castle house but detail of another one up there in the same area. As I (and my family) have been reading more about bottle diggers and how they find sites I realized that I could go to ...
Old Glass in Everyday Ramblings
This is some detail of the castle house from our walk on Thursday. I like to imagine being the kind of person that would live here. Confident and quirky, well off and creative, young and terrib...
A Breakthrough (With Elevation Gain) in Everyday Ramblings
Out and about this morning I took this with my phone that is why the sizing is a bit off. The best gift I could possibly imagine for my birthday was having not just the day off but this whole we...
The Mystery Shifts Focus in Everyday Ramblings
There is something about the mash up of green colors, textures and the way the petals of the flower are spread out, almost a sense of movement here that I like. This is over by the track, the pl...
A Slightly Embarrassing Accomplishment in Everyday Ramblings
This time last year we had just arrived here at the wonderful cabins on the Metolious River. The only time in three years I’ve been somewhere where we didn’t have reliable Internet access. I kno...
