Thanksgiving Day (in the USA; Portland, Oregon to be exact) was sodden. Yesterday we had four times our average rain (0.86 in vs. 0.20 in) and I’d thought it was to continue all week and weekend. But, Friday was lovely, so here is a fresh shadow. (I’m obsessing on bare trees and crows at the moment. [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
The Occasioned Meal
The Occasioned Meal It wasn’t that I was in from way out of town, (– A thousand miles? It’s nice you could come visit.) Or that we sat around a too crowded kitchen table, generations: Grandmother, second cousin, thirds, tearing up to recall men gone long, all. A first. Or that it would be the [...]
signs
Signs left [to] [for no apparent] reason Atop a guardrail post: a navy blue mitten, four sizes too small. A used condom, tied in a knot; one flower lost from a bouquet. Surveyor’s tape, waves a schizophrenic warning from a sapling’s dead branch. Dog scat, petrified; a cairn. Dog scat, fuzzed; button mushrooms. Brindled whirls: [...]
Shadow Shot Sunday
Few things are recognizable without its accompanying shadow. What would the absence of mass be, without shadow to define it? * * * Hey Harriet. A weekly post where you can see galleries of some of last week’s shots and a tour of Hey Harriet’s own creative work. Terrific images nicely put together. (Bink on [...]
Outside the First Presbyterian Church in November
Outside the First Presbyterian Church in November Portland, Oregon Ginkgoes form an old processional. Pleased golden paws fulfill their pledge, a promise to mirror pigment of artful glass while gray tones echo cut stone, marching to and from fall mist. Ancient shapes plaster the sidewalk, reminders, not pernicious, they once purveyed a timeless era. Their policy, [...]
lacking focal depth
I’ve been disappointed with my pictures as of late. What I sense as I walk Sport, or wander back and forth to the office, isn’t making itself into the images I expect. Or maybe it is. It could be these gray days, lack of contrast. It could be my that little camera can’t capture the [...]
Portland Christmas Bird Count 2009
This year’s Portland CBC will be held Saturday, January 2, 2010. I’ll be “in the field” again! Find out the details on how you can participate here: Christmas Bird Count 2009. “Think you would like to do a Christmas Bird Count but aren’t sure you’re “qualified”? Not to worry! We’ll match up beginners into teams with [...]
walking in the wet northwest
I got Sport out on quite a few walks this weekend, although none of them were particularly sunny and dry. We got soaked Friday late afternoon at Tryon Creek and that rain meant that 1000 Acres was pretty muddy Saturday. Yet even with that, the parking lot was full late morning when we got there. [...]
