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The wonderful secret about the northern California coast is that sometimes the best weather is in the fall.

Please excuse the quality of the camera-phone photos … but I think they capture the gorgeousness of this day.


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Remember this entry?Below the cut are photos of that same branch after it leafed out (leaved?), and those weird snaky shoots as they look now. Maybe someone knows what they are - the plants with the pretty little white bells ( Read more... )

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Thank you, New York Stock Exchange, for closing down on Good Friday every year. I went on a date with my honey yesterday. We went to lunch, then a movie - “I Love You, Man.” (I know, but we didn’t want anything serious. Paul Rudd does awkward so, so well.)

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“People don’t read fiction for information. They read it for emotion.”
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We enjoy candlelight on our menorah and Christmas lights on our tree.

I hope whatever holidays you celebrate this season have been full of friends, family, warmth and light.

We've had a wonderfully lazy day ... presents this morning, our big Christmas meal mid-day, a game of The Office on DVD after lunch (my son won), and a snowy walk with the ( Read more... )

It was extra-exciting to stop by Annie Bloom’s Books this evening to pick up my pre-ordered copy of lisa_schroeder’s new book, FAR FROM YOU. As I looked for a parking space, I heard honking, glanced to my left, and saw a car skidding down the hill toward me, a look of horror on the driver’s face. I gasped and veered into a snowbank to avoid him ( Read more... )

I know for those of you who live in traditionally wintry places, Portlanders’ fascination with our ARCTIC BLAST 08 is amusing … but truly, this kind of weather doesn’t happen here often. Some winters we don’t get any snow at all, and even when we do most of our snow melts within a day or two ( Read more... )