Alberta Street would be the only outing I had on my two week visit to Portland that I felt whole and with energy. Or could even think about taking a photograph. I was unlucky enough on the trip to catch a miserable cough and cold. Just before leaving Portland I had a surge of energy […]
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Nothing could have been more crazy than leaving the endless COVID winter seclusion of Santa Fe, New Mexico for a cavalier South Florida. Did anyone tell these people there was a virous going on? Citizens of Santa Fe, where I live, were taking it pretty seriously, We rarely left the seclusion of our wintery adobe
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Not long after my sister Maggie and I spent the day exploring the coast of Oregon, we were off again. For a few hours we would leave behind my sister’s sadness at the passing of her husband. It would be a relief, too, to leave behind the weight of COVID on lives not different then
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We visited the three capes in July https://oregonisforadventure.com/3-capes-scenic-loop/ . Summer comes here every year like a burst of new energy. I was visiting my family as I have done every summer for the past ten years. This summer, however, is different. This is the time of the Virus. By July things were getting worse, not better.
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I think that pretty much everyone who lives in Portland is familiar with Sauvie Island. It is one of the largest river islands in the United States and just ten miles from the city. There are some wonderful farms here and a wide wildlife area. And a nudist beach, if that’s your thing. Our plan,
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I was looking through some old photographs in Lightroom when I came across my photographs of Paris. What perfect memories these shots of Paris brought back! And how different to have been there at a time when COVID-19 was neither a thought, nor a feared possibility. Finding these memories, remembering, and organizing them here has been
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If you come to Trillium Lake on a day of mist and light rain, as we did, Mt. Hood will be hidden by the low clouds. Come on a sunny day and you will see her in the distance, 7.5 miles from our fisherman. It rained on the morning we were to go to Trillium
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It will snow tonight over the roof of Timberline Lodge. The mountain behind it, Mt Hood, surrounds and cradles the lodge. If you have been there or seen a picture, you know that the outline of the lodge mimics the mountain. You may notice that the lodge is nestled in evergreens but directly above
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Division Street is a Portland Neighborhood where we decided to spend a day exploring. It was a hard decision as there are so many fun and interesting neighborhoods that make Portland what it is. And there are several that I feel a particular fondness for. We somehow all agreed on Division. I have been in
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When we decided to visit Palm Springs, there was no questions in our minds that we would take a day to see Joshua Tree. I have been seeing, for quite some time, photographs of Joshua Tree National Park in California. https://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm . Some of these photographs are sweeping shots of rolling hills that go on
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