July has been moving by faster than the speed of light. I don’t mind, let’s get this over with, right? It is hot this week. Consistently in the 100s. Not much wind either. The trees are still. The little breeze that is there is hot. It is the end of the cherry harvest season. The […]
We have a comet suspended in space below Ursa Major. It is just hanging there above the Northwestern horizon. One can see it even with the yellow bruise-like light lining the mountain range. The stars out here are unbelievable. The milky way is green and yellow. We drove out of town to see the comet […]
Rufus and I headed out into the mountains this week and we found a place that had many owls. They were young and didn’t give us much of a chance to get close, they flew tree to tree and watched us warily. It’s cooler on the mountain, but there isn’t as many streams on this […]
Today they are picking in our orchard again. There are people milling around and dust is drifting around the oak trees. Huge tractors are pulling bushels and bushels of cherries out of the trees. The wind is moderate and is making the orchard go shushshsh. There are times that the birds sound louder than usual. […]
One of my favorite things is to take Rufus for a walk in the orchard. Our house is surrounded by cherry trees of different ages. During the day, during the winter, there is a whole forest of short skeletons, but at night it is a haunted affair. I love that he can be off his […]
Time, of course and cliché-y, is an illusion. Sometimes it falls by us like windows of a building that we just jumped off with the wind whistling in our ears, and sometimes time treats us as immortals: slow. When certain days repeat, we stop and think of ourselves. New Year is no exception, and in […]
A lot of the roads that lead out of the Dalles start being gravel dirt roads that wind through pine forests and rocky canyons. The road we live off is one of those roads. Some of the roads will wind through the eastern slopes of Mt. Hood. One such one laner gravel road will get […]
Yesterday was my 5-year anniversary of being diagnosed with cancer. No one wrote on my Facebook wall, called, or sent me any presents. In my life, this anniversary has as much to do with who I am as my birthday, my sobriety date, and my wedding anniversary. It’s a bittersweet date. I was one kind […]