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Walks with the dogs

• Walks with the dogs

  Nature

  05.31.14 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last Monday I took the dogs for a hike in the 3-Creeks Natural Area.  It’s remarkable that this area is so close to the modern drag of 82nd Avenue.  It’s like walking down into a little pocket of the wild. Here is the path before us: Here was the path behind us.  Civilization lurks just […]

• Walks with the dogs

  Out of Africa

  08.25.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have posted about some of the many churches in my neighborhood here.  It is through walking the dogs that I have been by all these various houses of worship, and on one street there are three halal stores and one storefront mosque and on that street I hope my dogs don’t give offense. Anyway, […]

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  Welcome to the Neighborhood

  05.03.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The sign below is posted about a half-block down the street from a couple of these churches.  I guess there are some folks who don’t like the infusion of cars every Sunday (and Wednesday as well, apparently).

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  Raider Nation

  03.28.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I have always enjoyed taking walks, but it is only because of my wish to keep the dogs’ walks somewhat fresh that we have explored practically every street within a thirty to forty-five minute radius from our house.  If it weren’t for the dogs, I certainly would have no need to go walk down the […]

• Walks with the dogs

  Where would Jesus park?

  02.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I wouldn’t walk past this parking lot except when I take the dogs for a walk in this particular area, hence the category.  I don’t think they peed on this while I took the picture:

• Walks with the dogs

  What Up Gangsta

  12.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Dog crap and dead leaves bear one important similarity: their color.  From which follows: legal jeopardy.  To whit: when my dog craps in the piles of leaves you leave on the sidewalk, it makes it difficult to fulfil my obligation to society.  Also: it is dark early these days and my cell phone doesn’t help […]

• Walks with the dogs

  Haiku

  10.27.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “What the fuck’s wrong with people?” Drag dogs down sidewalk They mourn dropped dirty diaper

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  The rain in Portland falls mainly on the dogs

  08.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I was just in a meeting that began with my observation that the rain outside was falling almost perfectly sideways.  Perhaps that effect was exaggerated by us being on the eleventh floor, but whereas in December horizontal rain is not so welcome and would solicit suicidal groans from my co-workers, after the miserable heat of […]

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  Otium sine litteris mors est

  07.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recent books read: We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Warden, by Anthony Trollope Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires, by Selwyn Raab The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II (Modern Library Edition), by Edward Gibbon   Today is muggy and I am logy but I still […]

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Litter

  06.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One of the advantages of walking dogs is the chance to explore the neighborhood.  I’ve probably been on every street in a forty-five minute walk radius of our house.  Still there are a few routes we walk regularly, and even there I am always seeing things I never noticed before.  Yesterday evening I was walking […]

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