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.

Author: Moni

  • Portland’s Japanese Garden

    Originally posted on Pinhole Obscura: Exposure time: 6 minutes 43 seconds Portland’s Japanese Garden is beautiful. It is the home of The Tree (a gorgeous, often photographed,  Japanese maple tree worthy of its own Flickr group).  Considered by some “the most authentic Japanese garden outside of Japan,” It is worth visiting if you are in…

  • World Suicide prevention day

    I didn’t want today to pass by without acknowledging World Suicide Prevention Day. If you are a regular reader of this blog you might know that I have struggled with depression and, yes, suicide tempts me from time to time. It knocks on the door every now and then to see if I will walk…

  • “Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole…”

    Those Death Cab lyrics have nothing to do with this post at all, but since I am on a DCFC kick and have been listening to their music lately and I love that song and it uses the metaphor of a pinhole… well. Why not? I visited The Grotto again a couple of weekends ago!…

  • Family ghosts found. part 2.

    It seems I am attracted to uncovering the stories of the deceased in my family. The mystery of the Cherryville Cemetery was solved a couple of years ago. This time around it is the story of my Great-Grandfather, Wilfred Boucher. He died in 1915 in a “hunting accident” when he was in his early thirties.…

  • Japanese Maple

    Japanese Maple

    I am on vacation and may or may not post in the next five days. We’ll see if I have time.