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festival of trees
I love trees. It may be from living so long without many in the northern Arizona high desert where I was raised. I easily fell in love with the big cottonwoods that stood at the gate to my grandparents...
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Portland Christmas Bird Count 2009
I had to scoot to get home at the end of the day, so don’t have the exact numbers of the count from yesterday (I left them with another person so they could be added to the total counts for our area)...
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ah, at last, a hike report
I haven’t gotten in much hiking, or even gardening, this summer. It’s hardly news since I have been whinging and whining about our coldest summer in 17 years, the driest in 10 (even though June was wet...
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(not quite) wordless Wednesday
Sometimes we get a sign. Sometimes we don’t. (Click through to get to larger, much larger, photos.) Related posts: wordless Wednesday: obsessed with peonies wordless Wednesday wordless Wednesday
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stones; a river: 15
* * * When waters collide confluence is charged all those ions fill the air water leaps into the mouth air dives into the stoney heart Glaciers calve with a cry an elephant wouldn’t let go when waters...
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Portland’s trees: an email from Portland Audubon’s FAUNA
Thanks to everybody who has written emails or testified in support of strong tree protections! We are in the homestretch now but Council took a big step in the wrong direction this afternoon. Please...
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checking in
From Wind Mountain looking west Last Sunday’s hike was a short one. Steep, but short and with a perfect temperature-to-breeze ratio. Probably should have added another hike onto the day, but it was...
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Portland Christmas Bird Count 2011
December started very dry (and ended the year being one of the five driest on record) but got quite wet the end of the month. Luckily Saturday 12/31 was dry, if cold, which made wandering around for...
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my beautiful winter
A glorious day that made me thankful for a reduced work week. I could enjoy a morning walk with Sport & get exercise and mental relief all at once. Cormorants, Anna’s hummingbirds, gulls, song...
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a river of stones (8)
Liquidambar, sweet gum, you are still green, you have forgotten it’s 18 days since Solstice. Tomorrow brings the full wolf moon to howl at your fruit, brown and prickly on the ground. Old Town homeless...
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