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.

Tag: adventures

  • Family ghosts found

    A year and a half (how has it been that long?!?) I wrote about an old Graveyard near where I live where my cousins are buried. I wrote a little about it in that post. Before I moved here I had no idea that my uncle lived in Sandy in the sixties. We used to…

  • Bridges

    Bridges

    Afterwards we went for a walk along the river and took photos. It was kind of a cloudy day so everything I took has a depressing quality to it. Preita and I were talking about her 365 self-portrait project. She has been keeping it going for a few years and I’ve enjoyed it’s progression through…

  • I did not take any pictures yesterday

    I just realized. So I have no photographic evidence of the fun I had. that’s just so sad. But I did have lots of fun! I took the train to the Hollywood district and walked a million blocks to the first yarn store on our list, Twisted. I walked in the door and there was…

  • Oysterville

    Oysterville

    As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Raf and I went to one of our favorite places, Oceanside, WA last month. The Long Beach Peninsula in Washington State is a really funky place. I’ve been visiting it in the Summers for almost as long as I can remember. It is a collection of communities…

  • Pelicans in the fog

    Pelicans in the fog

    I took these on our vacation last week. The fog was REALLY thick on the beach one day. I couldn’t see more than 10 feet in front of me (which is scary because they let cars drive on the beach here). There were a bunch of pelicans hanging out and it was an amazing sight…