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.

Category: Photography

This might also be what this blog is mostly about.

  • “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!…

  • 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.

  • Alone in the poetry section of Powells.

    A couple of Monday’s ago I enjoyed a wonderful morning at Powell’s in downtown Portland. If you don’t know what Powell’s is, well, I will tell you. It is Book Lover’s Mecca. This particular site is called Powell’s City Of Books, and for good reason. You could literally get lost in here. I am not…

  • Untitled post 18055

    The smell of film developing chemicals makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

  • Timberline Lodge

    I visit Timberline Lodge often and it is near and dear to my heart. I knew, when I started playing around with pinhole photography, that I wanted it to be the subject of some pinhole photographs. Apparently I visited Timberline lodge when I was younger but I have no memory of it at all. So…