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December 20, 2021April 23, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 15 Comments

...here I am, still trying to make my peace with winter. I turn my back on the gray skies, annoyed, wondering when blue would win out, watching and hoping it would peek through, a ray of hope. I calculate outings for the best of weathers.

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Deep Fall

November 29, 2021April 20, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 6 Comments

Wetter, wilder, wonderful, not yet winter... a few images of deep fall in the Pacific Northwest.

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We Are Golden

November 11, 2021April 20, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 11 Comments

Getting ourselves back to the garden, almost able to touch Mt. Hood.

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In Between

October 27, 2021April 30, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 15 Comments

It's an in-between time around here. Red, yellow, and orange leaves cover the ground and linger in the tree branches, hanging on til the next big winds. Rain alternates between torrents and sprinkles. I've just been in a "should I stay or should I go" sort of mood.

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Elk Rock Garden in Fall

October 19, 2021April 21, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 11 Comments

So much to see in this little botanic garden. Enjoy an early autumn walk with me - the micro, the macro, the sublime.

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Round in Circles

January 26, 2021April 18, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 10 Comments

Here I go walking in circles again. If it's not one direction out my front door, it's the other, always in circles, round and round the neighborhood, looping past the same houses, same yards, same trees.

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Walk Look See Write

January 7, 2020April 25, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 1 Comment

This week I'm looking to see or hear what the trees are trying to tell me, They are stark and dramatic now, and their personalities revealed without the extravagance of leaves. The trees' rain-darkened bones stand out clearly, accentuated against the skies' lighter backdrop.

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Equinox Part I

October 16, 2019April 20, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 11 Comments

Usually my feelings about Fall here in the Pacific Northwest are more mixed; excited about cooler mornings, rain in the garden, digging out warm clothes while mourning the end of languid days, sleeveless shirts, warm skin, and thriving gardens. Instead, I was fighting inevitable change, a losing battle.

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Winter Stream of Consciousness

December 21, 2018April 23, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 3 Comments

I like Portland weather partly because I have no choice. I repeatedly re-embrace it in a cognitively dissonant way, forcing myself to think: It's exciting! It's variety! It's opportunity! instead of: Oh this sucks!

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Train Tracks to Nowhere

November 19, 2018April 22, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 2 Comments

An old railroad is given new life, and a reminder to mix life's sweetness with the challenges.

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