Author: leh

rDay Two-Hundred-Five: Later That Day

Pointing and shooting, mostly from the passenger seat.  Various downtown errands, mostly recycling and donating stuff.

rDay Two-Hundred-Five: A Morgan Lake Adventure

Slightly chilly, but we head for an early Charlie walk at Morgan Lake and continue the process of Canonization, benefiting from Jim’s camera.  On the high plateau where the lake is situated, we see an assemblage of mounted cowboys herding cattle into a number of large semis.  So we hear distant cow-sounds for the duration.  Bumped into our old neighbor, Kent, an environmental scientist with HabLab, out searching to confirm the existence of a reported species of ocean duck on our own lake.  And we swapped intelligence on daughters; Kent’s was also a schoolmate of Ivi’s, including college, and we find that Ivi and Miriam both are strongly drawn to Portland city life.  On the way home, we thread our way through the convoy of trucks, then on down the road, find that one truck has taken a steep uphill curve too sharply and dropped a wheel into the ditch, requiring us to pull through the weeds to continue our descent.

rDay Two-Hundred-Four: Kicking Off The Day

I was so delighted over the temporary acquisition of a real camera (thanks, Jim, for the generous loan of your Canon!), that I nearly forgot that I started the day with my old point & shoot device on a morning walk:

rDay Two-Hundred-Four: Testing, Testing

Being one who lives a subtly charmed life, today I was unexpectedly tendered the loan of a fine Canon DSLR as my Nikon DSLR is pretty much out of service at the moment.  So I started trying to get a handle on it (Canon vs. Nikon is like having to learn the differences from scratch of the Mac OS vs. Windows) as I walked Fourth Street.  Along the way I (1) encountered a PE class of middle schoolers who demanded that I take their pictures, and (2) noted a mysterious modification to the block between the old and new Courthouses — are they planning to turn the street into a County parking lot?:

rDay Two-Hundred-Two

With the main camera out of service, today’s shopping venture gives me an opportunity for some point & shoot local windshield photography while riding shotgun on the road past Walmart.
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Also came across a few more seaside images — Venice, San Pedro and Point Vicente — from 1975, never before seen in positive (i.e., non-negative) form:

rDay Two-Hundred-One

20151012-DSCN0672-Edit-EditAs her final act (performance?) before departing for Seattle (via Portland for a few days and perhaps Corvallis), Ivi proposes that we engage Charlie in an early morning walk. We make a variation on the customary jaunt to Gekeler and past Birnie Park, through the Forest Service/EOU boundary fields, across to Lower Hillcrest and on to main Hillcrest, then return through the EOU campus early enough before the impact of classes and student traffic.

After eating a sumptuous breakfast upon our return, we assemble Ivi’s luggage, (including her shark ukelele) and await the arrival of biologist and former classmate John for the drive to Portland. By mid-morning they are off, and the house takes on a quietude not experienced for some time.