Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Among the last things I expected on a weekend visit to Portland: To have former University of Oregon basketball coach Jody Runge serving me coffee at a bed and breakfast. Honestly, I couldn’t decide whether to ask for her autograph, or insist that she sit down so I could bring her coffee. Here’s what I…
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In 2009, my nephew Ethan helped me plant a Mexican orange. It was small and now it’s tripled in size and as you can see is blooming like crazy, the blossoms gently fragrant. There’s heather (which bloomed in the winter) in front and rock rose (which start to bloom in the next month) to one…
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Winter was hard on the rue, which looks begraddled. The deer have munched away on the rugosa rose, which nevertheless is spreading on suckers and looks a little crazy. The artemesia was a knobbly mess till I cut it back. Sow bugs and slugs munched the rising shoots of the calla lilies. The weeds, of…
