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"Cameras are important precisely because they could answer questions we are too stupid to ask." -Carl Sagan
Imbolc
Imbolc, Candlemas, St. Bridget’s Day. Call it what you will, we’re half the way through the Winter, which has for the most part lacked winteryness. What will Spring bring? In a fit of Episcopagan devotion, I burn candles to remind the light to return full strength, and to honor St. Bridget and her eternal flame.
Wild Blue Yonder
The colors, they were irresistible. The clouds were too.
Playing With My Food
Making dinner, I stopped to arrange the cabbage and take a picture. That happens with surprising frequency when cabbage is involved.
Moon Rise
In winter, the full moon jumps up fat and healthy right into the tree across the road. If you happen to be heading out of the parking lot right then, it stops you in your tracks for few minutes as you are mesmerized by its climb up through the branches.
Lavendar Marquis
I love made up color names. Pulled Sugar, Lavendar Marquis, Love Bug, Must Have Iris. Each wrong in its own way
Home Again, Home Again
And then Max was on his way back home and so was I. And as I drove through Portland, I turned on OPB and there they were, Terry and Carrie and Fred talking about Portlandia. The world has such ways of spiraling around on itself with echoes and layers and synchronicities.
Max
A surreptitious portrait while watching tv. iPad as spy cam. Heh heh heh, sorry dude.
New Year’s Rune
I took a walk in the park across the road on New Year’s Day. I made a little good luck charm for the new year with what I found along the way. May we all find fortune in 2012!
Goodbye, 2011
The perfect surreal end to a typically surreal year. Dick Clark, Ryan Seacrest, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Carlos Santana, Mayor Bloomberg and a couple million out of towers 3 hours in the past on the teevee, while I am cozy with a cup of tea on the sofa. So long, 2011, it was good to know you.
Birthday Girls
A shared birthday party is the only way to go. This time, it allowed Micki and I to truly stretch it out to birthday month. Then Delaney wanted in on the action, her birthday is in a few days. So I spent a happy day baking a lemon meringue pie and a gluten free caramelized pear gingerbread upside-down cake, completely messing up the kitchen, then putting it all back together again. It looked like Team Cake was going to take the prize, but Team Pie came on strong in the second half of the dessert distribution, so I think it was really a draw. I’m happy to say all diners were perfectly happy with the offerings and many second helpings were passed around. A happy super late, extra early birthday extravaganza was had by all.
