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So I am leaving in about an hour for our adventure in a very nice cabin in the woods on the other side of the state for four days. It is my birthday and I am not going to take my computer wit...

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Last year on my birthday I took the day off from work and Most Honorable and I went hiking on a mixed-use trail built on an old railway line through the mountains that separate Portland from th...

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So Stanley is kind of sort of mostly gone. Somebody else is feeding her. Yesterday evening after I put my birdfeeders back up she thumped up on to my porch railing next to my seed feeder expect...

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I think she may be working me but I have most definitively been adopted. My guess is that she came to live in the neighborhood in one of the student households and still lives there but is thin...

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She’s still here. The tabby cat. I am calling her Stanley. If my fierce little protective gang girl Stella was still with us, she would be long gone. To say Stella was territorial would be a bi...

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The poppies continue to add a burst of color to the morning mist and gloom. And I have been practicing shots with this local batch. There is a famous American yoga teacher named Ana (Tiger) F...

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It is a good thing you all like flowers or you wouldn’t ever come visit my pages here during the spring. I just can’t help it. The light, the colors are irresistible. Thank you all for your s...

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I find myself taking pictures of this rose bush each year. It is a few blocks from here. Practice makes perfect. I love the light even though we are moving towards the solstice there is still a...

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This is something growing weed like a block up the street on the sidewalk side of the park. I stopped and looked at these delicate flowers a few nights ago and today I took the camera. After a...

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I took this with my phone this morning on my way to the charity 5K event. It was held at a park in an urban residential neighborhood full of lovely old homes and wonderful gardens. And memorie...

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The color is so close to true here on this slightly squashed rose and I love the shape of the petals. Oldest sister came home from the hospital yesterday afternoon. She is in a fair amount of...

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It is a holiday here in The States and I am so happy to have the day off. We all need down time and as I get a little older I find, just like many of you, I need to honor that more. But! My in...

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This is a local regular, a song sparrow. Handsome fellow. He just sat there yesterday and did not flit off and I was grateful to get his picture. These guys are always in motion. The sister is...

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I can’t figure out how to size pictures properly here. Oh well. And I admit I stopped cross posting on ED. I’ll work on it again when I have some free time. Just reveling in the greenness out ...

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The roses are really coming on out there. Gorgeous glorious roses everywhere. Spring just barrels through, doesn’t it? I feel this imperative to be outside as much as I can. I know many of you...

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I am employing a little classic pop music to help with expressing my emotions these days… On Sunday it was the Supremes and their version of Keep Me Hangin’ On, which I actually listened to in...

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This iris was in a random suburban yard near a shady spot in the parking lot down the hill and across the busy street from where we went birding on Thursday. The powers that be are doing a ma...

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My oldest sister would probably not be happy that I am posting this except that she looks really good considering what she has been through with her cancer and the treatment and her smile is bi...

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Okay so the extravagant adventure in staying in a hotel three blocks from my sister’s apartment on First Hill in Seattle was worth it as you can see by this view of my Sorrento Hotel bathroom. ...

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This is a picture I went back for. I saw these yellow irises blooming on Sunday and luckily they were still blooming on Wednesday. The columbines are starting to bloom! I love their almost pinw...

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The rockroses are coming in. It is so funny how I am becoming more comfortable with the color pink as I get older. It was anathema to me as a girl even though I was a pretty girly girl. On Su...

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Enough with the Oregon Coast pictures already! Been there, done that. :) Because of the recent (and currently ongoing) rains the iris are getting pretty battered out there. I so live on my own...

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Okay. I just haven’t had time to set things up on Easy Diary. I admit it. What with work and teaching and getting ready to go to Seattle next weekend to both see and hang out with my older sist...

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If you have any experience with the Oregon Coastline you will know that blue is not a color you would normally associate with it. Gray of course, some green but not blue. That is why this somew...

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I took this yesterday afternoon out here at the Oregon Coast. A storm is blowing in now with fierce winds but it has been astonishingly beautiful since we arrived Thursday afternoon. I manage...

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