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2012-02-08T09:15:00.000-08:00

2012-01-26T13:31:00.000-08:00

A Bit of Zen

2012-01-25T10:26:00.000-08:00

The Wave

2008-10-27T15:02:00.000-07:00

At the Mexican Market

2008-10-22T09:50:00.000-07:00

Our Spanish class went out to lunch.

The River

2008-08-23T12:34:00.000-07:00

Boston Fern

2008-08-07T08:59:00.000-07:00

Living Flowers

2008-07-24T10:50:00.000-07:00

The New Guinea empatiens plant is alive so far.

Letter to an old friend

2008-07-21T09:35:00.000-07:00

Dear Jim,
Big news here. The foal was born. A little filly---I guess she will be named Cayenne Caprice---and called Ki. She is the cutest little critter I ever saw and not afraid of people---we can get in the stall and lie down with her---and Ruby doesn't mind us. She is really fun to play with. She has been a big event on the mountain---everybody knows about her and every body is coming to see her. She was born about a week ago---Linn checked Ruby about 11:00 at night and saw she was dripping a pretty steady stream of milk and then set his alarm for 3:00 am. When he went to the corral Ruby was just beginning to deliver so he woke me and we watched---the presentation was normal---first two feet and then a nose. When the baby was not quite all the way out Ruby started a maternal lowing to it and the foal answered with a strange little cry. Ruby chose to deliver in the middle of the corral---not in the flat place at the top we had prepared for her---and so when the foal tried to stand up she would fall over downhill and roll---Linn at that point picked her up (must have weighed about 85#) and carried her to the place we had ready and I led Ruby there. At that point we woke up Dan and Sarah---would have done it sooner except we didn't want to upset Ruby with too much going on around her---this being her first time and ours---but they got to see the foal just getting her legs. The foal kept trying to find the nipple to nurse and at first Ruby wouldn't let her. I called our horse teacher. He said to put hot packs on Ruby's milk bags and try to get the milk to flow---so after that Ruby was ready----but the foal seemed too tired. I expressed a little milk into a roast baster to get it into her mouth so she could taste it. One reason I think she is so friendly with us now is that she had her first contacts with Linn and me. She was born between 3:30 and 4:00 and by 7:00 she was nursing okay. We were worried for a little space of time there. She seems to be growing very fast. We take her into the riding ring for an exercise period and she races around with Ruby.

Sorry you didn't stop over with us on your travels west. How was it for you?

I have had two poems accepted for publication---one in a collection of Colorado poets and one by a small handset press in Oneonta, N.Y.---nice to get a little encouragement---if not money.

Let us hear from you.
Love,
Ida

Written March 28, 1978 to Jim Allen, my first husband, a gay guy. We were married in 1951 when 'gay' wasn't in the vocabulary yet.

BATS

2008-07-21T09:33:00.000-07:00

Now that would be something to worry about.

Another Finish Line Photo

2008-07-09T04:22:00.000-07:00

Linn coming to the finish line

2008-07-08T08:48:00.000-07:00

He is in the white shirt, raising his right arm.

Roses

2008-07-04T06:10:00.000-07:00

Linn and I at a Thai Restaurant in San Francisco

2008-06-28T16:38:00.000-07:00

The first part of June we visited our grand-daughter and ate at a place near where she lives.

Out of the trunk

2008-06-24T08:43:00.000-07:00

This is the publication that first put me in touch with Malay Roychoudhury, a poet of the Hungry Generation in India, almost 40 years ago. Now I see he has a blog. How very interesting! This computer age. This small world.

Asian Art Museum San Francisco

2008-06-22T05:02:00.000-07:00

We spent four days in San Francisco in early June. This is a wonderful museum, moved from the Asian section in the De Young to what used to be the public library in the Civic Center. This photo is in the Tibetan exhibit. The new De Young Museum is a big surprise now.

Training for the Boulder Bolder

2008-05-24T05:31:00.000-07:00

Linn and Sarah run on the high school track for the big Memorial Day event.

Testing beta photoshop with fleckr

2008-05-22T09:00:00.000-07:00

This could be interesting.

Spider

2008-05-16T15:51:00.000-07:00

This is a fine specimen. I don't know the name.

Jane

2008-05-14T04:17:00.000-07:00

From our visit to Bend

Bird trying to get in the window

2008-05-02T04:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday coming through an alley we saw this young bird not understanding about glass. Bonnie took a photo.

Isn't this a great photo?

2008-04-28T15:32:00.000-07:00

Linn, Sarah and Chris in Boulder

2008-04-18T04:23:00.000-07:00

At the World Affairs Conference April 2008

Can you find Ida and Linn in this picture?

2008-04-12T16:29:00.000-07:00

Spring

2008-03-30T15:59:00.000-07:00

Flower petals have been falling along with some snow flakes.

Coffee in the mornings at Theo's

2008-03-28T15:37:00.000-07:00

Here is Linn waiting for our friends to come so we can discuss the affairs of the day

Desert Wildflowers

2008-03-25T06:28:00.000-07:00

Photo from the web. It is that time of year in the California desert.

Timely question

2008-03-16T05:20:00.000-07:00

View from the window

2008-03-12T04:10:00.000-07:00

The River Path

2008-03-10T04:16:00.000-07:00

Lots of people walking along the path on Sunday, the first really warm beautiful day for a long time.

Recovering from flu

2008-03-05T05:54:00.000-08:00

Winter has come to Eugene

2008-01-27T12:06:00.000-08:00

Views of the Abbey and our deck

The Best Season

2008-01-03T07:39:00.000-08:00

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
By Wu Men (Hui-k'ai) (1183 - 1260)
English version by Stephen Mitchell

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

Christmas Morning Walk

2007-12-29T12:05:00.000-08:00

Linn and Kaia

Spaulding Pond in Antartica

2007-12-22T04:20:00.000-08:00

Named after Sarah when she was there and liked to hike in the Kukri Hills. Image is from Google Earth. It looks very cold.

Friends Simon and Maggie

2007-12-05T15:02:00.000-08:00

We had a good walk on Saturday. Simon was on his skateboard.

The 'Stanley Flats'

2007-11-30T14:27:00.000-08:00

The music was great last night. Also, the pizza was good.

Cosmic Pizza

2007-11-29T15:27:00.000-08:00

This is where we have coffee some mornings with our friends and chat about politics, aches and pains, and books. Tonight we are going there to hear Linn's friend play with his musical group, Flat Stanley. Maybe I can get a photo for tomorrow.

Waiting in NYC

2007-10-30T07:08:00.000-07:00

View of lower Manhatan from the Brooklyn Bridge

2007-10-28T16:22:00.000-07:00

Picasso at the Met

2007-10-27T06:01:00.000-07:00

Entitled 'The Scream'

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge

2007-10-26T04:07:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn View from our hotel room

2007-10-25T15:49:00.000-07:00

Our Elderhostel stayed at the Marriott in Brooklyn which was a very nice hotel and very convenient to the subway for our adventures in the city.

Jonathan, Margaret and Nicky

2007-10-11T05:59:00.000-07:00

Pasadena

This mornings sunrise

2007-10-09T17:40:00.000-07:00

Linn and Tim

2007-10-09T09:01:00.000-07:00

At our family get-to-gether in Pasadena

Carl and Jonathon

2007-10-08T04:36:00.000-07:00

The family gathering in Pasadena

A beautiful meal

2007-08-31T09:10:00.000-07:00

I need to get the recipe for the tamari dressing.

Where we live

2007-08-28T07:05:00.000-07:00

Linn's sexy tomato

2007-08-23T17:20:00.000-07:00

He woke me up from my nap to show me this

White Horse

2007-08-18T11:44:00.000-07:00

Each Other----a poem

2007-08-14T13:59:00.000-07:00

Selecting Eugene's new Slug Queen

2007-08-12T10:01:00.000-07:00

Willamette St at Broadway

2007-08-06T09:13:00.000-07:00

Flowers on Pearl St

2007-08-03T13:52:00.000-07:00

It's Tuesday

2007-07-31T07:52:00.000-07:00

Good Morning!

2007-07-30T10:18:00.000-07:00

Oh me, oh my

2007-07-28T15:39:00.000-07:00

Bison Burgers for dinner

2007-07-27T13:43:00.000-07:00

Costco had these frozen, organic, free-range and they are low fat. Not bad. The white stuff is Nancy's lo-fat organic yogurt. The plate was too much to eat and so I saved about half of it for tonight's dinner. Linn is probably going to have a frozen dinner that he picked out. I avoid those but they are sometimes handy and quick.

My husband got a medal

2007-07-25T18:26:00.000-07:00

Linn was the oldest runner at 85 in the Butte to Butte and his medal arrived in today's mail.

Eye Drops after Cataract surgery

2007-07-23T04:27:00.000-07:00

Pretty goose

2007-07-17T16:44:00.000-07:00

Moving the moon

2007-07-15T06:48:00.000-07:00

Good video

2007-07-14T06:31:00.000-07:00

Visitor to our deck

2007-07-13T04:29:00.000-07:00

The river is cool

2007-07-10T04:33:00.000-07:00

on a hot day

Concert yesterday at the Hult

2007-07-09T04:21:00.000-07:00

At the Bach Festival we heard a Mass by Haydn

The Butte to Butte on July 4th

2007-07-04T14:12:00.000-07:00

Before, during and after the race

More of the Spauldings

2007-07-03T13:42:00.000-07:00

Spauldings at the Pancake House

2007-07-02T14:49:00.000-07:00

Chris, Susan, Sachi, and Kenzo were in town and we met for breakfast with Rob and felt so pleased with our Spaulding family.

Green, green, I want you green

2007-06-29T04:24:00.000-07:00

Hand and Pen

2007-06-27T11:32:00.000-07:00

Sarah and Linn at the Boulder Bolder

2007-06-25T18:38:00.000-07:00

Outside the law?

2007-06-23T13:25:00.000-07:00

"Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) said he plans to propose next week, as part of a spending bill for executive operations, a measure to place a hold on funds for Cheney's office and official home until he clarifies to which branch of the government he belongs. Emanuel acknowledged that the proposal is just a stunt, but he said that if Cheney is not part of the executive branch, he should not receive its funds. "As we say in Chicago, follow the money," he said."

Prairie Dog Haven

2007-06-23T06:02:00.000-07:00

This former farm in Colorado is where our horses, Max and Jim, were boarded before we found them. Now it is just Prairie Dogs.

Notice Dan on the phone

2007-06-22T10:19:00.000-07:00

At the Boulder Bolder race Dan had a call come from his friend in Israel. Imagine that! This is such a small world. We need to take good care of it.

Trip in the mountains

2007-06-19T15:39:00.000-07:00

Sarah sent some pix

2007-06-15T04:06:00.000-07:00

End of the race. Jane on camera.

Ghost Ranch 1973

2007-06-13T19:55:00.000-07:00

From Sarah's kitchen window

2007-06-13T09:28:00.000-07:00

Duckies

2007-06-12T05:54:00.000-07:00

Life in trees

2007-06-11T04:05:00.000-07:00

Sweetpeas

2007-06-10T08:21:00.000-07:00

Life is just a bowl of-----

2007-06-07T14:53:00.000-07:00

And really delicious

King Estates Winery in Lorane

2007-06-03T15:41:00.000-07:00

We drove to our old neighborhood this morning to have coffee with our friends. It was good to see folks we hadn't seen in a long time. Afterward we went to the winery and tried our their lunch menu. Linn had an interesting dish of poached eggs on pureed spinach and I had grilled salmon over vegetables. Delicious! The view of the Lorane Valley is beautiful from the winery.

Yesterday in front of Theo's

2007-06-01T04:15:00.000-07:00

This flower was so lovely I wanted to take a picture just outside of our coffee place as I was locking up my bike.

Running the Boulder Bolder

2007-05-30T15:01:00.000-07:00

Here is Linn after about a mile or so in the 6.2 mile race behind the guy in the yellow shirt, next to Dan. He did well. He finished. He had a great time though it was not easy but he was exhilerated for having completed the 10K race.

Tom and Jane

2007-05-27T15:38:00.000-07:00

With Tom and Jane we have 8 family members together. A rare event. Tomorrow is the Boulder Bolder 10K. Linn, Tom, Jane, Sarah and Dan are running. Chris will try to get some photos at the Boulderado Hotel corner. Kaia and I will try for some photos, too. We will try to get to the stadium to see some of the racers finishing and meet our group.

Dan's here

2007-05-26T17:35:00.000-07:00

Kaia is here!

2007-05-26T09:30:00.000-07:00

Sarah and Chris at the Sunflower Restaurant

2007-05-25T07:42:00.000-07:00

Our good friends

2007-05-24T15:40:00.000-07:00

Lee Todd was our neighbor on Lookout Mountain in Colorado. Her sons are Vince and Ger. We had lunch together today in at Boulder Dushanbe Tea House and had a lively discussion on religion, politics and the state of the world. Some of Linn's and my fondest memories are of backpacking with Lee and Clem when he was alive.

The Bright Side

2007-05-23T09:09:00.000-07:00

Alas, a flicker few into the window

2007-05-22T09:01:00.000-07:00

The glass reflected the sky and this beautiful creature tried to fly through. Sarah is going to put up a black pattern of a hawk on that window to warn birds.

View from Sarah and Chris's Deck

2007-05-21T07:54:00.001-07:00

In Boulder, Colorado the sun is bright this morning.

View from my window

2007-05-15T15:23:00.000-07:00

Some lovely flowers

2007-05-14T19:13:00.000-07:00

Stephen Colbert for President

2007-05-11T14:42:00.000-07:00

Indian Music

2007-05-02T18:15:00.000-07:00

Mr. President

2007-05-01T12:18:00.000-07:00