• a mallard hen with a batch of five tiny beeps! It seems late for this. And, further down the canyon, one beep on its own, ignored by all the adults. I hope that has a happy ending.
• ripe salmonberries in the canyon. Someone else had been at the thimbleberries up by the track, so I just smelled the roses.
• the swingset has shiny new chains. Putting the ( Read more... )

I shared my birthday this year with Reed College, which put on its 100th Anniversary reunion celebration this weekend. I actually set foot on campus three times yesterday. My run in the morning was through the canyon, where quite a few older alumni were walking in ones and twos on the trails. Just since I was a student in 1992 there have been a lot ( Read more... )

At about eleven this morning I sat bolt upright on the couch. "I have to go to Ken's and take care of the cats today!" I said to sanguinity.

Now, Ken and Dale only left on Friday afternoon, so yesterday would have been the soonest I'd go over there. It's fine to wait til today because they are cats. But, I did not think of Loaner Kitty and Hermi-1 once ( Read more... )

On Monday sanguinity and I went down to Reed to see Ursula LeGuin speak.

• I was having all these maudlin thoughts about "this might be my last chance to see her," because she's in her eighties, but she seemed to have lots of energy and no air of frailty at all. She wore an entrancing sparkly silver scarf.
  
• We parked in the back parking lot by the rugby field, ( Read more... )