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She’s an Elderly Lady in Everyday Ramblings
It was bound to happen eventually if one is long enough in a particular body. I got on a relatively crowded bus with a cloth bag full of groceries on Saturday afternoon and moved towards the ba...
Tis the Season in Everyday Ramblings
This is what it looks like outside right now. I took this on my birding class this time last year. Somehow it seems appropriate with the news about sequencing the genome for various classes of b...
Shiny Things in Everyday Ramblings
Diego likes shiny things; nail clippers, tweezers, the gold mouse laser pointer on a keychain (they clearly have never encountered a laser pointer before coming to live here) my hair… He is a ha...
Mr. String and Mr. Bird in Everyday Ramblings
Diego apparently has the ability to teleport from room to room, or else he can be in two places at once without being anywhere at all. Kes tells me that my brother calls this site-to-site transp...
The Intellectual Within in Everyday Ramblings
If you look carefully at this tree shot you can see a squirrel jumping from one branch to the other. I personally just like the light. We had abundant unexpected dreamy light yesterday but it wa...
A Mystery To Be Revealed? in Everyday Ramblings
So one of the things I have been a little concerned about during the adoption process with the boys is that now I have even more of an excuse to stay home and not interact with others. I took th...
Crudités and Catitude in Everyday Ramblings
I keep trying; really I do, to get decent shots of the cat boys. It is hard in such low light. You’ll just have to make do with an atmospheric picture taken about an hour ago with my phone of th...
Slipping Into the Holidays in Everyday Ramblings
Because we have such a wide variety of trees here, our leaf litter often makes beautiful patterns. There is a kind of beauty in decay. I wish I could feel that way about my aging face. This mor...
A Mountain and More Cats in Everyday Ramblings
Mount St. Helens from the top of a public stairway a few blocks from my place last Sunday morning. We maybe see her one out of 15 days with the weather pattern here even though she is only 50 mi...
Alls Well That Ends Well in Everyday Ramblings
For those of you not enamored of felines, this picture from Sunday is for you. We all survived our big day yesterday but it was quite the day. Because over the years getting Stella in the carri...
Playtime in Everyday Ramblings
Well, the picture is a little dark but remarkably they are not moving. They are now grooming and bapping and biting each other. Sometimes I look up and they are quietly rolling across the floor ...
Young and Healthy and Full of Energy in Everyday Ramblings
I have been taking pictures all day with my phone, my iPad and my camera and they are all blurry. The guys are pretty much always in motion. This is Carlo. He is smaller and beautifully proporti...
They're Here! in Everyday Ramblings
Pictures to follow when they come out from under the bed. :) I am so excited. Carlo has been out exploring and marking everything (including me.) Diego is taking a more conservative approach to t...
Almost in Everyday Ramblings
Like many of you we are having W-E-A-T-H-E-R. What exactly is the difference between freezing rain and sleet? They make a different sound? Sleet is slick and sleek? My Dante class was canceled s...
Forces of Nature in Everyday Ramblings
Once when I was about 17 I went on this ill-fated camping trip with a roommate couple and a guy I didn’t know and my beloved Great Dane, Lucy. I was living independently by then and thought I wa...
Kitty Proofing the Homestead in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday morning I went to the farmers market up on the Portland State campus and discovered that the fall market starts at 9 AM, instead of the half hour earlier start in spring and summer. Lu...
Close in on Happy Things in Everyday Ramblings
It is not raining! Really. Oh my, it feels like Christmas to have a break in the ever- present gloom and dark damp. The picture is from last weekend taken with my phone of the giant clump of tan...
Pinky and the Relative Calm in Everyday Ramblings
Title: I took this Saturday afternoon. It looks like pretty much the standard beautiful Oregon Coast empty beach scene but what is remarkable is the blue sky. In November! We had a mixed weathe...
Not Spooky at All in Everyday Ramblings
Ah. I am here. Okay. It is still dark (because it seems like it is dark all the time now) here on this time change weekend but I am out at our semi-annual coast getaway where I took this picture...
Texture and Shape in Puddle Town in Everyday Ramblings
There was a break in the endless ongoing rain yesterday evening and the light was gorgeous, like dream light for a photographer where every picture comes out well. As you all know by now I am mo...
Invading Armies and an Obscure Fact for the Day in Everyday Ramblings
This morning I woke up to the semi-annual invasion of sugar ants. I’ve had a manageable few for about a week and put out traps and sprayed my orange peel spay and rubbed petroleum jelly over the...
Certified! in Everyday Ramblings
This was my home away from home for four days this last weekend. This pavilion is actually quite beautiful inside, full of gorgeous wood and light, when there was light. I am now certified to t...
Hot Chocolate, Love Handles and Chopin in Everyday Ramblings
I am in a slightly melancholy place as autumn comes on that is a perfect match for Chopin’s music and a big mug of hot chocolate. So far I have managed to not indulge in the chocolate part but i...
Autumn Light in Everyday Ramblings
When I was doing all the prep for the Caregivers Gentle Movement and Relaxation class on the pediatric oncology unit I teach on Tuesdays, I mentioned to the coordinator something about how I kne...
Gorgeous Backs, Guys in Everyday Ramblings
We, like many of you on both sides of the equator, had a gorgeous day yesterday. The air was clearer than I can remember it being this year and the mountain views stunning. I went for a long wal...