November is always a big month with the Thanksgiving feast and holiday dominating all. But it also contains my birthday, election day on alternate years, and the anniversary of the death of my sorely missed husband Eric, who died 6… Read moreEnd of the year – 94th birthday, November 2017
Last week I watched a most astonishing event. I was on my way back from a walk in the old-growth forest above Natural Bridge on the upper Rogue River when a young man hefting a kayak passed me. I stopped… Read moreExtreme Kayaking-October 2017
This will be a short post, because I am so full of an OSF/OLLI experience that I feel impelled to share it, particularly with friends who live in the Rogue Valley. So much has happened in my wonderfully exciting life, it… Read moreOctober-2017; UniSon
What a dazzling, marvelous event. On Saturday, September 26, we did a street painting on the intersection of Faith and Wine. It was a stellar occasion, with lots of neighbors, friends and their relatives of all ages from small children… Read moreStreet painting, August 2017
August was such a dazzling month I have to write another summer post. It began with the annual Britt Classical Festival, in which Jenny has played viola for 17 years. She arrived after a week at Coos Bay where she… Read moreLate summer-2017
I had a serious warning about loss of near memory lately, so want to record some special events in July now, in case I wipe them out. The first was a wonderful week in Brookings with Ann Di Salvo. We… Read moreEarly summer-2017
The Saga of a Rock Wren family. In early April Eric Setterberg found a most unusual Rock Wren nest in Emigrant Lake County Park. He saw a pair taking nesting materials into an open-ended steel pipe that serves as a… Read moreSaga of a Rock Wren Family
It was the most whirlwind, active, and diverse Mother’s day in my personal record of 70, which included some lovely ones, but this one deserves an entire item in itself. Heath and Phoebe arrived Friday evening and we talked until… Read more2017 Mother’s Day
The first big event in January was the Women’s March in Ashland. We are a city of 20,000 inhabitants and the march was 8000 strong. And although it was the only one in the Rogue Valley, I knew so… Read moreJanuary 2017
Summer breeding migrants In the Klamath Basin the winter raptor spectacle is a huge draw for bird lovers, but the summer months are very low on visitors. This is odd, as Malheur NWR in eastern Oregon draws large numbers of… Read moreKlamath birding adventures #1