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Progress and Technology in Everyday Ramblings
Everything is blooming and fragrant here. It is like someone took the flower clock and sped it up. The wild poppies are up and the peonies are budding. I was across town last week where the weat...
Further Tests - Thinking Good Thoughts in Everyday Ramblings
So the wonderful women’s health team (the nurse had partially lavender hair and many tattoos and knows Reiki) was unable to complete the biopsy this morning and have referred me for additional t...
All the Pretty Little Possibilities in Everyday Ramblings
Title: I took this on Easter on a walk with Kes and Most Honorable around their lovely quiet flower full neighborhood. I like the composition, the colors, and shapes in the photo, the touch of ...
Street Clothes in Everyday Ramblings
I felt almost normal on Friday but yesterday was rough. I have a feeling I have an interesting week in the body ahead. But! It is Easter! It is gorgeous out there even though it is overcast and...
Still in the Stable in Everyday Ramblings
One of the cool things about a site like Prosebox is that I can post a messy picture like this. It is not a card worthy perfectly composed shot but instead is a vivid representation of vibrant h...
A Giant Chocolate Bunny? in Everyday Ramblings
I am not sure you can easily get the scale here but what appears to be a chocolate bunny near the trunk of the tree there has got to be at least 5 feet tall with the ears. How could that be? Do ...
Bathed in Light in Everyday Ramblings
So Kes went to a grief counselor this last week at a local hospice and she got some great information, including a handout excerpt from a book that specifically addresses what might be conflicti...
Go Ahead and Roar in Everyday Ramblings
Title: After an incredibly dense morning fog yesterday we had not only clearing in the afternoon but warmth! Laugh; go ahead, those of you coming out of summer into fall, and for those of you w...
Kitty Claws and a Journey Towards an Open Heart in Everyday Ramblings
Diego is looking rather serious here. He is standing on my laptop case and expressing concern that I might be taking it some place. He is generally such a happy cheerful little guy but the last ...
Going Wild. Ha. in Everyday Ramblings
I did my stair walking in the rain this morning. I was wearing a waterproof jacket so my upper body stayed dry but my sweats got wet and when I returned home I clocked into work and didn’t reali...
The Equinox! in Everyday Ramblings
Happy balance of light and dark no matter which way you are going! I was supposed to go for a training walk after work last night with S. but she had to cancel at the last minute and I thought,...
A Bit Thorny in Everyday Ramblings
It was only after I took this picture midday yesterday that I noticed that the iris plant is wedged between some very thorny roses. Somehow that fit my mood. It was warm and sunny then but today...
Safely Celebrating an Unsolved Mystery in Everyday Ramblings
It poured here for most of the weekend. It was dark and gloomy and about as wet as one can get. My big heavy broad brimmed hat got soaked all the way through and then I had to carry it around fo...
A Curious Annivesrsary in Everyday Ramblings
It has turned into an extraordinary day after a few rainy ones and is clear with some high clouds and warm. I was going to go to the members-only night at the art museum but as I am tired I thin...
She’s Got Everything She Needs… in Everyday Ramblings
She’s an artist, she don’t look back… Except once in a very long while, like now. My oldest sister’s editor is working on a proper obituary for her. They knew each other in various times of their...
In the dark, no less in Everyday Ramblings
Seriously this is not a photo from last year inserted to give us all hope. I took this last Monday after I was coming around the side of a garage on my walk home from the studio and saw live blo...
Pear Tree Oh So Pretty With Sun in Everyday Ramblings
This is one of the three pear trees behind my place. What is remarkable here in this shot I took Sunday afternoon is the late light. We have this blissful glorious light and that creates shadows...
A Curious Thing in Everyday Ramblings
Remember when I was talking about how sexy our mountain is? I took this a few hours ago up on Terwilliger behind my place. The views here are so dependent on where one is. It can seem huge 20 fe...
So Not Complaining in Everyday Ramblings
We had a couple of days of very dramatic overcast skies with rainsqualls now and then but today it has cleared again. The trees are blooming! We are three weeks early even for us. Every year I c...
Auntie Noko in Everyday Ramblings
I almost but don’t quite feel guilty that we have had a run of beautiful clear but cold for us days. The light is shifting from harsh winter to soft glorious spring. Mt. Hood yesterday afternoon...
Hard Labor and My Favorite Dress in Everyday Ramblings
Although we had some complicated gray skies with layers and layers of clouds on part of the trip up to Seattle, the trip home was spectacular. The most beautiful trip down that I-5 corridor I ha...
Cat Talk in Everyday Ramblings
Carlo and Diego are very excited because their uncle Most Honorable is coming to visit this evening. As I have mentioned before my brother-in-law Most Honorable was clearly a cat in a recent for...
Some Firsts and Some Sweet Ease in Everyday Ramblings
This is Sauvie Island, one of the biggest river islands here in these United States. We were out there for almost five hours on Saturday and it was so beautiful. First foggy but then shortly it ...
Dazed By the Sun in Everyday Ramblings
If you are an astute reader here, and you all are, you will notice something remarkable about this picture I took this morning out in the Columbia River Gorge on a trail above the Bonneville Dam...
A Cantilever and Colorful Tidbits in Everyday Ramblings
Just in case you were wondering… it is still raining here. This is a planter box up by the Waldorf School across from the park in the old building that they updated by gutting and modernizing th...