noko
Entries 1,391
Page 47 of 56
A House, A Set of Values and a Modest Trot in Everyday Ramblings
The house on the right is the house that burned in the back. I took this shot two years ago, and obviously it was more focused on the remarkable lilac gestalt with the house than the house itsel...
Carlo on the Case in Everyday Ramblings
Both literally and figuratively. Detective Carlo D. Cat is draped over my roomy work laptop bag in the hopes of identifying the person most likely to feed him next by thwarting my anticipated de...
Hammered Home and Storytelling in Everyday Ramblings
This is close up detail on the house that was moved and restored to the place where the Psychedelic Supermarket was, I found out that the original store that became the local forward thinking ch...
The Merchants of Warm in Everyday Ramblings
“The people with whom you share the suffering of sudden growth are linked in magical ways, and these can be the people who really know you best.” — Jon Adams This is the iconic house in the litt...
Jane’s Famous House of Prostitution in Everyday Ramblings
This is the upper stairway for the VA Steps. All 145 of them. It is this grand stairway through a forested hill with this split into two circular stairs (one of which I show here that ends in… y...
Keeping it Simple in Everyday Ramblings
This house is on a steep hill and the fence is built at that angle. This is one view of a very nice yard sculpture. The folks that literally live above me can afford to buy art and they do. Ther...
Toast… My Kingdom for a Piece of Toast in Everyday Ramblings
So for those of you who don’t have raccoons here is a not very good picture of my intruder the other morning. For those of you all too familiar with their wily ways you can admire the greenery i...
Wild Animals and Hedonistic Folly in Everyday Ramblings
I took this last Sunday on my walk. I thought the buttery roses were pretty, plain and simple. If the wind is blowing the right way it smells like roses out there. There was a huge evening cele...
All About the Body in Everyday Ramblings
I have heard a couple of things about these public stairs I took this picture of Sunday morning. There are 203 of them. One story is that at one point there was a street here but it was too stee...
Impromptu History Lesson in Everyday Ramblings
This morning, because I could, I grabbed my camera and went in search of easy access to “The Elevator Stairs”. I tried to follow the route that S. and I took last month from the top of them up ...
Wily Paws and Circles of Connection in Everyday Ramblings
I picked up my antibiotics last night. I have to take them for 17 days starting next Thursday and am not allowed to drink alcohol for the duration including a few days before and after. I am gla...
Right Effort in Everyday Ramblings
I shot this because I thought the composition of the yard and the dappled light were nice. After putting up picture after picture of pretty flowers over on Facebook the other day I put up a pict...
The Mystery Continues... in Everyday Ramblings
Wow, I feel like I have been away on a journey. My yoga teacher Olga’s teacher Gary Kraftsow was in town over the weekend on pretty short notice. The workshop information was quite confusing an...
A Leap into the Pond of Life in Everyday Ramblings
I am still seeing flowers when I close my eyes. We had a most spectacular day on Saturday here, it wasn’t only warm out, it actually got hot, 83°F (28.3°C). S. and I had planned a long walk on T...
Play Time in Everyday Ramblings
When I close my eyes I see flowers. I have spent hours over the last few weeks wandering around with some sort of camera (phone, iPad, actual camera camera) reveling in irises and the roses comi...
Diego and Boy Push Up Position in Everyday Ramblings
I think this was this morning, when we had a little sun break between the rain squalls that make everything so luscious and green here. Diego hanging out near me in the bedroom while I work. Lat...
The Colors and the Bee in Everyday Ramblings
Just for a change I thought I’d share a glary peony. Is it too self centered to say I love the composition here? The colors and the bee. Although the cold wind continued yesterday morning by mi...
A Cold Wind and Curious Cats in Everyday Ramblings
I apologize for all the iris pictures lately but it is a banner year for them here and I am enthralled. I was talking to Kes last night and she was telling me that one of her knitting teachers ...
Best Get To It in Everyday Ramblings
My camera is what, something like four years old now, and my laptop is five and between the two of them posting pictures to Instagram is a bit of a challenge. But I figured out I can do it using...
Getting Towards the End of the Work Rope in Everyday Ramblings
If you look closely you can see part of a rainbow here. It is hard to believe that it was exactly a week ago that I was headed off to our holiday at the beach. After the first day the jellyfish ...
Back and Together in Everyday Ramblings
Practice makes for efficiency. We’ve been indulging in these twice yearly getaways to the Oregon coast now for long enough that we are getting pretty good at the whole logistical part of the ent...
Plant Identification Challenge in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday morning after I took the bus train to Salem I talked Kes into a short walk around the neighborhood. She asked me to take a picture of this fabulous array of color and spring exuberance...
Much Gratitude and Some Dismay in Everyday Ramblings
I want to make friends with the people that live here so I can go hang out in their yard. :) Finally the results of my uncomfortable Ultrasound came back and the exceedingly good news is that t...
Unfolding Joys of Spring in Everyday Ramblings
On Friday after work S. came over and picked me up (I felt a little like a princess getting a ride) and we went back over to her part of town where she, (and her cheerful standard poodle Frieda)...
Castles and Low Attention Spans in Everyday Ramblings
This is the house up in the affluent neighborhood above me that had all the pretty Easter decorations including the giant chocolate bunny. I mentioned the giant edible Leporidae in my public yog...