April 4, 2024
Spring Beauties
Pacific Northwest natives wild current and Oregon wild grape are blooming together right now. Purples were dominant in Hendrick’s Park this weekend.
Thoughts, tales, and travels
February 3, 2024
Layover at the Getty Center
Most of the day to spend in LA? The Getty Center seemed the perfect choice, only 11 miles from the LA airport, where we would depart in the evening for Vietnam. We had a leisurely breakfast, then caught an Uber. It was a beautiful day, a little chilly, but the...
January 30, 2024
Leaving Paradise
It’s pretty rare for me to eat a cheeseburger, but we’re officially on vacation. We probably won’t see many burgers in Vietnam and Cambodia.
January 29, 2024
Duck fans
After a disappointing Oregon women’s basketball game, we stopped recently reopened sports bar The Wild Duck with friends Rosie and Bruce. We had a nice chat with the new owner, far left, next to Bruce. We’re all hoping for a return of glory days for the Wild Duck and for...
January 23, 2024
Post Ice Storm Post
We walked through the woods towards Springfield this morning. Carefully. Most of the large trunks and branches have been cleared from the trail now, but evidence of badly damaged and downed trees was all around us. Some of the biggest trees on this trail provide homes for our herons. It...
January 9, 2024
Looking Back 2023: Bellingham
Always love to take a nice long weekend to drive up to Bellingham, Washington to see son Ben and family. Washington State has great tulips, and it was blooming season, so we took a detour on the way to stroll through a tulip farm. In Bellingham, sweet granddog Indy was...
January 5, 2024
Vietnam Reading: Owner of a Lonely Heart
With our trip to Vietnam and Cambodia less than a month away, I am thinking about all that the country of Vietnam has meant to those of us who came of age during the Vietnam War. I have mixed feelings: guilty sympathy for the Vietnamese people combined with a second-hand,...
January 4, 2024
Looking back: Spring 2023
We always trek up to Hendricks Park in the spring. This year we went a little early, so azaleas in bloom were scarce. Lots of snowdrops, though, and these lovely white daffodils.
January 3, 2024
Morning walk
through a hushed and foggy park before breakfast this morning. I left my phone at home because I thought it was too foggy for pictures. A scant few days past the equinox, and the birds are already increasing their activity in response to the slightly longer days. We heard the...
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