Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • A January road trip to Canada! Fifteen hours of driving. I logged the first part of the trip, 480 miles yesterday from Eugene Oregon to Post Falls, Idaho. If you don’t know Post Falls, it’s not surprising. It’s a little town between Spokane and Coeur d’Alene. It’s my usual stopping point on the way to…

  • I’ve always loved the Little Free Library practice, where people build cute waterproof wood boxes with a couple of shelves filled with books that neighbors can take from and/or add to. In our neighborhood there are many. But one neighbor chose a different option, stocking a cute little box with art, not books. It brightened…

  • Some things that caught my eye on a rainy January walk on a trail that skirts the Coast Fork Willamette River at the Mount Pisgah Arboretum: Catkins on an unknown kind of tree. I know alders have them. Also hazelnuts. It’s hard to recognize trees without their leaves. Then, shrubby snowberry in front of a…