More specifically concerning: pdx
A view (20)
3 December 2007, around 17.07.
all is roses.
A view (38)
24 July 2013, around 5.38.
sunset, Portland.
wayside
11 April 2014, around 20.43.
cornered
6 August 2014, around 13.56.
momentum
26 August 2014, around 0.04.
Scent through the open window – party-goer’s perfume or an evening bath, mothballed sociability. Dull beats from the club, from the event space fluorescent light, and the shouting or murmurs of the smokers. Another scent. Ready for winter – ready to close the windows.
mise en scène
23 November 2014, around 7.31.
The other day I noticed that the old apartment was empty – the one we had lived in before. It faces west with a view of the city, and has certain conveniences (a trundle bed, a refrigerator that doesn’t block a window) that the current apartment lacks. I emailed the property manager about it, to […]
acedia
6 June 2016, around 12.16.
afternoon commute
30 August 2016, around 14.18.
looking up
17 October 2016, around 12.23.
befogged
3 May 2017, around 5.40.
Ghostly views on the morning walk – weather warm and strange.
unscientific
13 June 2017, around 14.32.
Books save lives.
kamurj
13 February 2018, around 7.43.
Exploring new bridges.
amused
13 February 2020, around 5.42.
An arbitrary detail from ‘Portrait of the Comte De M.’ by Jérôme-Martin Langlois (1831). Just last Tuesday, I ended up at the art museum, although I hadn’t intended to go. It was after going to the dentist, you see, and my jaw was sore from a filling and the right side of my face was […]
A view (55)
28 April 2022, around 8.19.
momentary
7 August 2022, around 17.22.
peripatetic
19 August 2022, around 9.12.
From the morning walk.
hey neighbor
28 August 2022, around 14.38.
The new neighbor lives openly, loudly, her life spilling across the narrow public sphere of the yard between buildings. Branches and brambles provide an equivocal visual screen, but sound passes through unmuffled. Her conversations are eager, enthusiastic, kindly, echoing out the open windows of the barely furnished ground floor apartment next door, which she has […]
in waves
4 November 2022, around 16.03.
Walked out in the downpour to pick up holds from the library – a biography of Walter Benjamin and Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James, neither of which I am likely to read at the moment but which did, however, give me a destination. Mostly I wanted to be out walking in the rain […]
A view (57)
14 February 2023, around 5.53.
fleeting
21 February 2023, around 11.44.
Undoubtedly, the landscape will be endearing to someone in the future, even if it changes again. People live in the world of their own moment. They get used to their environment and cannot waste emotions on grieving over everything that has changed. —Andri Snær Magnason (On Time and Water, trans. Lytton Smith, p. 251)
other work
27 March 2023, around 14.23.
It is the itchy time of year, that small collection of days when one notices the dusty cobwebs gathered in the corner and along the picture rail, when the dirty streaks on the window vex a spot of sun that shines too brightly but does not linger long. The piles of books pulled out for […]