Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Month: August 2012

  • I really loved this quote

    From Powell’s Book Blog: But, writing, it always begins poorly. It can only begin poorly. As I describe in the book, it’s more like trying to reverse engineer something edible from rotten food than assembling a meal out of palatable ingredients. It goes on the page poorly, and then you have to live with the…

  • write about your daily travel from your home to workplace.

    Another post idea randomly generated by Big Huge Thesaurus. I present:  the exciting story of my walk to work this morning… As per my usual routine, I put on my earphones and fired up Spotify so that I could be fortified with tunes on my walk. I usually choose something from my “Starred” playlist to…

  • yellow flowers

  • Paradise Park

    I’ve been wanting to hike to Paradise Park on Mt. Hood for years and today I finally did it! Here is a pano I made with an iPhone app called 360 Panorama. Click the photo for bigger (if you click the photo on the page that comes on when you click the one above you…

  • black and white foliage

    This was taken with my Pentax P30t with Ektar 100. I took it way back in May when I took this one. I thought I would play around with Lightroom a bit so I changed it to black and white. I don’t know how kosher that is when one uses a film known specifically for…