For the past six weeks or so, I’ve been intensely focused. My world has pretty much shrunk to the walls of my office and the data coalescing on my monitor. Once in a while, I make brief forays into the outside world to stock up on food or to convince friends that I haven’t actually […]
Randomgrams – April 2017
Images from two states, one season, and one overworked Instagram account. Many of them tulips. (#sorrynotsorry) Spring has been moody this year. Even in the rain, the cherry blossoms at Tom McCall Waterfront Park were amazing. In fact, everything finally blossomed to the delight of winter-weary souls. I’ve already had one post full of tulips. […]
Wooden Shoe, Part Deux
I almost didn’t go. It has been a cold, windy and rainy day. I only had an hour before sundown. It could have all been very underwhelming. Sometimes, it’s good to be wrong. All pictures (taken by me with a Nikon D3400) from the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in Woodburn, OR. See last year’s […]
Waiting
It has been two weeks since I posted. Not a huge gap in the scheme of things, but it represents two weeks of me breaking a commitment to myself to write something for myself rather than others. It has been even longer since I took a picture. I’ve simply run out of words, and my […]
Dahlia Love
I’m fickle when it comes to flowers. In April, I’m all about the tulips. Come May, I’m raving about peonies at the beginning of the month and am all about the irises and roses by the end. Now that it’s August, I’m swooning over the dahlias. The only problem? Trying to pick a favorite… For more […]