So fellow travelers, endings bring beginnings. Self portrait in Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland OR Having had the chance to return to Portland, I now understand why I bogged down last year trying to write about our first trip. The two trips really were book ends of one larger experience. I could not put words […]
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Left Coast Dreams: Epilogue
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on August 16, 2015
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Left Coast Dreams: Vintage, Vinyl and Bon Voyage
So fellow travelers, when things get rough, tough girls go shopping right? Oh the vintage shops of PDX! They are gloriously packed with treasures waiting to be found I have already informed my husband we will ship very little when we move here. I intend to furnish my retirement cottage from the wares of […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on August 15, 2015
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Left Coast Dreams: Castles in the Sand
So fellow travelers, the tides turn imperceptibly. One moment two kids are playing in the sand somehow moments become years and those two little girls have become young women setting out on their own. Camping at the beach has become the kids’ (aka favorite oldest daughter and son-in-law) best weekend getaway and they were eager […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on August 12, 2015
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Left Coast Dreams: Lost in Thought
So fellow travelers, moment by moment, I am discovering even more than magic in PDX. As tired as we were, we had to laugh when we realized we had walked right past what we were looking for. I am blessed to have a family with a pretty decent sense of humor. Still, I was not […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on August 4, 2015
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Left Coast Dreams : A Changing Landscape
So fellow travelers, today is my solar return, aka birthday, which I am celebrating in one of my favorite places with some of my favorite people. Once a year the Sun returns to the same degree of its 360* journey where it was at your birth, hence the name solar return. I like the term. […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on July 16, 2015
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Getting Ready
So fellow travelers, I don’t know what it is about my family, special events and severe weather. The day before my daughter’s graduation party the weather reports turned serious. High winds, severe thunderstorms and a tornado watch. Tornadoes? Really? We live in Central New York not the Central Plains. No matter. I have been down this […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on June 15, 2015
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Becoming a different Mom
So fellow travelers, in the mysterious way creative minds have of tapping into one another the CGBF* page featured a post by wHicked awesome writer Lisa Dingle. It hit all kinds of nails on the head for me; so many I half expected the garden shed I have long wished for might have appeared in […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 30, 2015
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Moments in time
So fellow travelers, bit of a postscript to the Yaddo post…. When I am out and about shooting with my dslr camera, images capture my attention for various reasons. This shot of the mansion at Yaddo gave me a feeling of seeing into the past, as if catching a glimpse of it’s amazing history and hinting at […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 24, 2015
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Always near
So fellow travelers, we bid farewell to an Old Yankee Man this week. I say “we” because fellow farmie Lisa Dingle has shared him so graciously with us in her wonderful blog. I have been thinking of her and her family a great deal these days as they weather his passing together. This morning […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 16, 2015
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A Leap of Faith
So fellow travelers, a friend of mine is getting married today, taking a self described “leap off a ledge” in faith with a phenomenal partner. I wish them the best of adventures in their years together. Together From square one to the top of the mountain You reached this vista together Pulling each other […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 2, 2015
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