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Nonverbal Communication in Everyday Ramblings
Wednesday night it was unexpectedly dry as well as being quite cold so I walked the river at dusk to get over to my Weight Watchers meeting. This grainy shot is from my phone of the 101 year ol...
Return on Investment (ROI) in Everyday Ramblings
This is a kind of big leaf ivy dying back against a concrete wall on an upscale beautifully landscaped condo a few blocks away. Other leaves caught in the vines. This neighborhood is such a mi...
A Holiday Break in the Action in Everyday Ramblings
Somehow this photo just seemed the perfect representation of the intersection between the winter holidays, the pumpkin and the wreath and the broken down bare brachness of it all. We are havin...
What Day is This? in Everyday Ramblings
Sammy has been purring and doing his Yoda imitation. With the weather turning cold all the time he would prefer to be on me as much as possible. This makes it challenging to be active. I worke...
The Street of Gray Cats in Everyday Ramblings
My neighborhood is all chopped up with freeways and bridges and roads that are not suitable for pedestrian crossing so I have learned to love the little residential pockets I can walk in. There...
Looking Forward With Glee in Everyday Ramblings
I walked by this tree a few days ago and almost all the leaves are down. I took this last Sunday. The light has changed since then. It has a much more pewter winter look to it now. Yellow is th...
Facing Fears Head On in Everyday Ramblings
Right now we are having a welcome sun break but I like the water droplets on the leaves in the street shot here and how they catch the light. We had an old water main break here in downtown Po...
My Kingdom for a Chair in Everyday Ramblings
According to the forecast today is our last day of light for at least a week. It will warm up a tad bit and get dark and wet. But for right this moment we have beautiful light from the south an...
Leaf Shape, Poetic Inspiration and an Unruly Tendon in Everyday Ramblings
I took this photo a few hours ago. I was wandering around in the dark last night trying to get in a little last minute activity before the end of the day and I spied this tree. None of these h...
Word For the Day - Chthonic in Everyday Ramblings
chthonic. (some folks say the ch is silent) concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld. "a chthonic deity" “Snappers were the old gods—chthonic, ugly, and crude—who’d been dethron...
The Proverbial Bag of Cats in Everyday Ramblings
I have taken a picture of these trees in the park up the hill a block from me every year this time for at least four years and I think the one this year is my favorite because of the quality of...
Turning Turning The Year in Everyday Ramblings
Wow. I have been so busy and OD had been so wonky so every time I have a free moment to check in the site isn’t working. Even though I am mirroring here on Prosebox I miss the connection with ...
Time Outs of All Sorts in Everyday Ramblings
I took this hazy fall field shot last Saturday down by the fast flowing river on a walk with Kes. We had the sun at our backs and that was delightful after the storms. It turned cold after that...
For a Woman Your Age in Everyday Ramblings
So I went to see the doctor this last week about this sharp pain I am getting in my right thigh where it connects to my pelvis when I am in the process of standing up. It is getting better bu...
Social in a Good Way in Everyday Ramblings
We are not going to have any trouble building up our snow pack this year. It has been raining cats, dogs, and tigers and bears out there. We have some minor flooding now, and lots and lots of t...
The Elusive Mighty Pegasus! in Everyday Ramblings
In The Emotional Life of Your Brain by Richard J. Davidson he talks about how folks have different emotional styles that can be measured by brain activity. These are not fixed but there are ten...
Settling In in Everyday Ramblings
Every once in awhile lately the diary actually works like it used to and one can actually zip around and leave notes and then… Thanks for all your wonderful notes both here and on OD. Your th...
Gone Girl in Everyday Ramblings
This was one of the top five most challenging things I have ever done in my life, making the decision when to put Stella down. And then remaining open about changing my mind if that was appropr...
You Don’t Need a Weatherman in Everyday Ramblings
To tell which way the wind blows… We are having a stunner of a fall day. There is a breeze but it is going to be quite warm later. For once though it is not muggy. Yippee. I love the fall lig...
Good News in Everyday Ramblings
We are having monsoon type rains with local flooding. It is so weird after the drought late last summer. This bush is blooming though a few blocks away. I have taken a number of pictures of it ...
Mixing It Up in Everyday Ramblings
With a longer lens I could have managed some great reflection shots but this one, the juxtaposition of civilization and wetland is pretty nice. So I did in fact make my Weight Watchers goal we...
As the Days Flutter By in Everyday Ramblings
We had quite the rain last night. We have puddles, all the usual suspects are back in play. But before we did, Kes and Most Honorable and moi went birding locally at a place up in the industria...
From Greenland to the Tropics in Everyday Ramblings
The mimosas are still blooming. I think of them as tropical and it feels mighty tropical out there right about now. We had rain a fair amount of the day that didn’t appear in the forecast until...
Pretty Soon There Will Be A Robot... in Everyday Ramblings
Took this picture Saturday. With the wires (yes I know I could photoshop them out) and all not a perfect shot but it sure is cheerful. And in about 5 hours I will be very cheerful, as I will be...
Getting Started in Everyday Ramblings
So this is as much of a place holder as a post. Just to get my feet wet and say hello. Like many of you I am a refugee from Open Diary, looking for a site that works. I am particularly intere...
