I've been sitting on this photo for a couple weeks until it was just close enough to Halloween to bring it out. Mr. Binks, can't help it, he's just creepy by nature.#caturday #halloweenvibes #phoneography #blackcat #orbweaver #spider

My study of old #folklore gets more and more relevant to current-day affairs. Example: All of these narratives about "Things That Cause #autism " are basically recycled folk tales about #changelings . Right now, we are at the: "The child is WRONG somehow - the mother must have been careless!" […]

#silentsunday #believeinfilm #chaika #halfframeclub #halfframe #staybrokeshootfilm #crappycommiecameraparty

Annals of caregiving in rural america: after spending most of the day in the local ER with brother, am now in the big city ER with brother. Actually daughter who has some medical background is in with brother as the dental surgeons try to stop the inexplicable bleeding. Wimp me is in the jammed […]

Extremely rough night in the caregiving sector - are you familiar with the smell of blood in large quantities? No? Stay that way. - and consequently 3 - 4 hours of sleep. I was supposed to get a broken molar pulled today but got there only to find i had to have nitrous or they would not do it […]

Recycling some sketchbooks from the 80s & 90s. L - R, the fantasy illustration stuff of my teens; a world weary early 20 something self portrait; a forgotten 90s Christmas card i might reuse this year - it's truly awful, yet heartfelt, so why not?

Cooking marathon concludes with 2 sets of savory breakfast muffins, on the right are corn, soyrizo, hatch Chiles, cotija and cheddar, on the left are veggie breakfast sausage, apple, spinach, zucchini and cheddar. Breakfast potluck at work tomorrow, here i come! […] [Original post on mefi.social]

#silentsunday #sunset #phoneography #photography #waterylandscapes #oregoncoast

My brother says Mr. Binks the cat is an outlaw - he is not naturally partial to cats and also, he is not wrong. So now I greet Binks by asking him how his life of crime is going and congratulate him on all the successful criming. Then he does more crimes - he just pulled a whole bunch of stuff […]

#silentsunday #phoneography #photography #waterylandscapes #oregoncoast

If the Pacific rim states can form a coalition for vaccine advisory, why not also form a coalition for universal healthcare?

Happy #caturday from Mr. Binks #cat #mastocatscatsofmastodon ##phoneography #photography

I am just going to point out that I took both of my silent sunday photos this morning. 😀

#silentsunday #oregoncoast #whitepelicans #canonphotography #wildlifephotography #birds #birding #photography

#silentsunday #ELK #rooseveltelk #canonphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #oregoncoast

The move that wasn't continues on, slow motion train wreck of unpacking and convincing myself to declutter. I don't need a small green stone alligator with a broken claw and my 80s college edition of Strunk & White will not be useful for my granddaughter even if colleges still exist in 14 years.

THREE small otters playing in a pond by the river tonight and the phone camera does not cut it at all. This is i think the 5th time I have seen river otters in the 7 years i've lived here and only twice have I had a decent camera, dagnabbit. They were very small […] [Original post on mefi.social]

Not so #silentsunday #canonphotography #photography #oregoncoast #shipping #harbor #californiasealions #marinemammals #sealion

#silentsunday (OK there are sea lions in this photo and they are never silent)

I have a little song I sing this time of year, it goes Ten Thousand Photographs of Pelicans 😀 and yes, here are two of those photographs and one that MIGHT be a stealth whale! I can't tell! I said, Computer, Enhance! and go figure, it didn't help. So I will let […] [Original post on mefi.social]

Coming home from Portland yesterday, a shot through the car window as we started to get closer to home. A long day, horrible medical test, some good medical news - no surgery in my near future, huzzah! - and an exhausting trip to IKEA and Trader Joes. We don't […] [Original post on mefi.social]

A late caturday, let me present an action sequence with Mr. Binks who can get up on that fence after all but may not bother again soon. Those fence boxes aren't anchored, and that fence is 6.5 feet high! 😆 Not pictured, the cucumbers that are growing in the next […] [Original post on mefi.social]

New to me phone and holy shit, the camera on the S23 is light years better than the S20. This is a 10x zoom. It's arguably better than my admittedly terrible Tamron 18 - 400. Also, #fog ! #sealions ! #phoneography #photography #oregoncoast

Unlikely that this will affect anyone here, but this morning in the midst of strapping Four into her car seat, shooing the cat out of the car (he loves the car) & running back inside for sunscreen, water bottles & socks, I left my phone on top of the car with predictable results about 2 blocks […]

Y'all. I painted my floor. Before, during and after. And I left the linoleum of doom in the closet as a testament / portal for the time bandits to get through. #homerenovation #artsandcrafts #paint

Thistle and bee. #bloomscrolling #phoneography #photography

#silentsunday #phoneography #photography #ELK #oregoncoast #waterylandscapes

Not everything vintage is worth saving. Behold the glory that was under the beige carpet on the main bedroom of my 1950 bungalow. Along with a nice coating of mold- oh my cursed home - is this. I begin to suspect they covered it up in the 60s when someone dropped […] [Original post on mefi.social]

Y'all, barn owl! 😁 Harvey and I were not expecting to startle two barn owls when we wandered into one of the ruins at Fort Stevens on our walk. This is a terrible phone picture but oh! It was so exciting! I hardly ever see owls and I do love them so. Harvey says […] [Original post on mefi.social]

Four years today! Grandmothering is not a journey I really ever thought I would be undertaking, much less the hands on live in kind. But it turns out to be worth it.

Granddaughter turns 4 tomorrow and there was going to be a huge birthday bonfire party at the beach. . .everything bought for cookout, etc . . and she's been running a fever since last night. So no party and we have a lot of party food to get through! Poor baby!!

We didn't have fireworks last night after waiting for an hour - and it was cold outside. Which is some kind of metaphor because of course it is, it's 2025. But! Have a couple of appropriately 2025 photos from yesterday anyway. #photography #canonphotography […] [Original post on mefi.social]

In yet another heavy handed metaphor provided by 2025, the local fireworks here were delayed for technical issues for so long that the families with kids - like us - gave up and went home. I hear the show finally started after 11 and I guess the people on the cruise ship enjoyed it. I had […]

Happy 4th of July from the far western edge of a collapsing empire that was founded on genocide, racism and relentless exploitation all cloaked in fine sounding noble ideas. The sad thing is those ideas actually were noble and a good idea, for all they have been […] [Original post on mefi.social]

#silentsunday #phoneography #photography #waterylandscapes #lowtide

Happy chill caturday from Mr. Binks attempting to lure you in for a pet so he can playfully eviscerate your hand. #caturday

Portal. #phoneography #photography #portal

Oh gods I got some Manila clams for dinner and I put them in salt water and they’re . . . chirping as they expel sand. I know intellectually that I can’t return them to the mud flats to live out a happy clam life - they don’t actually work that way, once they’re out they’re out and they would […]

I hate Facebook but - I just checked in with my local buy nothing group and promptly scored two wonderful studio stools that are perfect for my kitchen. Why does something so cool have to be part of something so awful? When I run the galaxy it will be nationalized. And very firmly regulated.

#silentsunday #believeinfilm #photography #lomofisheye #fisheye #toycamera #waterylandscapes #astoriaoregon

First roll back from the Chaika II and I am in LOVE. So happy with this camera, so happy with the downtown Portland Shutterbug and just, extremely happy. YAY FILM! #crappycommiecameraparty #believeinfilm #staybrokeshootfilm #vintagecamera #35mmfilm #half-frame #chaika

Yesterday's rather technicolor dog walk and Saturday evening's sunset. No seriously it looks like this here. 😁 #photography #phoneography #landscapes #oregoncoast

Granddaughter at the protest today with the sign she made. 😁 so proud!

#silentsunday #fog #waterscape

Granddaughter at the protest today with the sign she made. 😁 so proud!

#silentsunday #photography #canonphotography #geese #waterylandscapes

#bloomscrolling #phoneography #photography #flowers

#silentsunday #phoneography #photography #reflections #waterylandscapes #oregoncoast

I made a small thing. 😁

Still lives.#photography #phoneography #coast #beach