Thoughts, tales, and travels

March 27, 2025

Spring

We walked in Hendricks Park yesterday. The rhodies’ blooms have been delayed by a week of drenching rain, but the triliums were lovely.

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March 15, 2025

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Just deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts.  This is it, folks. This is where I live. Also find me on BlueSky: @shielapardee.bsky.social

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February 21, 2025

Luxembourg, Fall 2024

This past fall, I finally got to see the pretty little European country where Bill worked for Dupont decades ago, before we met. It was an outstanding day of our fall cruise.

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September 23, 2024

Bruges

As much as I like beer and chocolate, I like history even more. In Bruges, I hope to visit St. John’s the oldest existing hospital (12th century) in Europe. The whole medieval city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The beer from their biggest brewery is piped underground to...

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September 4, 2024

Ribbon Trail

Bill and I have been doing the work to get our hiking legs back, and we were rewarded Sunday morning when we walked the ribbon trail from Hendricks Park. The trail is short, but it has some real ups and downs, and it felt glorious to be fit enough to...

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April 9, 2024

Fire and Snow

We’re in Colorado, enjoying some beautiful late-season snow squalls. There was an inch and a half on the ground when we woke up this morning. We headed out to meet Bill’s son John and grandson Charlie at the playground. We used the snow mounded on the slide to make snowballs...

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April 5, 2024

Colorado Sunshine

Visiting Marianne in Boulder. The brilliant light, blue sky, and rosy clouds at sunset are an invigorating change from the gloom of an Oregon winter.

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