Autumn in Portland

is why, I’m convinced, people move here.

Of course, every time the season changes I say that, but this time I really mean it.  Autumn is where it’s at.

I took this while driving.  I don't recommend it.

Birch trees = my *favorite*

My favorite little cheapy shoes, unraveling even as we speak.  I tell everyone I know not to buy Target shoes ’cause they’ll fall apart, and what do I do?  Fall in love with some.

Puuuuuuuurple !

I found the sun hiding in this puddle.

Oxbow Park, 2nd Day of Autumn

Day of Labor + Mountains + Bacon =

Inside the tent

Outside the tent

Mah boots

The best part of any trip, event, day, moment, reunion, 

church service, pajama party, art class, or study sesh

UFO-sized arachnid

Enchanting!

Grungy, grimy, furry teeth . . . and still so raaawwwr

 

Oh hey, freakin' AMAZING MOST BEAUTIFUL OREGON DRIVE EVER.

Lalala The End.

July Wrap-Up

It is disappointing when I discover, over and over again, that coffee and peanut butter are not compatible.

Oh yeah, I had a birthday. 

Yay for being closer to 30!
(No, really.)

He bought me a piano for my birthday.
I couldn't believe what I was looking at.
I screamed.
Then cried.
Then went silent and quietly wept for many minutes.
He didn't know how to take such a reaction.
Neither did I.

Now that's all I want to do.  It's all I think about.  I curse this blessedly enchanting weather for the pressure it puts on me to be outside, and not inside playing the piano.  I get to feel moved every day, moved beyond the place I thought my moveability stopped.

He calls that flow.  I like that idea, flow.  It's hard to find it in painting.  It's there and always waiting, but hard to get to.  But piano -- with piano flow is instantaneous.

                >>>>More piano

                       Less everything else

Best lately things:

the appeal of the aged radish

bye-bye hair

discovery:  the Americano 

super invention you think would be more wide-spread: ceramic travel mug (with lid)
"some things needs to feel accidental"
the process of "brain dumping"

Not-so-good lately things: 

Road Rage (on my end, not theirs)

the causes of said Road Rage (on their end, not mine)
       <see previous entry Of "All the Time & Things & Places">
85 degrees and hotter (YUGH)
getting back into a regular workout routine after the injuries (past progress = gone)
feeling a tad embarrassed when my hair dresser laughed at my DIY bangs
missing the sass from the gals at my old job . . .


                     flow

              . to circulate around the body

              . to move or progress freely as if in a stream

              . to proceed or be produced continuously and effortlessly

              . to be present in abundance

              . a continuous stream

              . natural happiness

I daydream of more tattoos.

. . .

The Grand MoMare Adventure

         A (painfully)  

Short Story

<ahem>

She arrived.

We ate heartily

nom

and drank (very dramatic) cups of coffee.

We lazed about and chit-chatted

 boop

and sat on sidewalks drinking tea

and swilling beer.

 We got to peruse many a-menu

 because that's what happens

when you eat a lot and are daunted

by giant flatware.

 RAWWRRR

We had fantastic hair

and gesticulated wildly

and made funny faces in public places

  until we nearly peed from laughter.

And even though we felt exhausted at times

oy

that didn't stop us from admiring the flowers

 I think those are weeds

eating radishes the size of baseballs

womp

and flaunting our fantastic bosoms.

yowza

The End.