Two weeks of photo a day! Time is speeding up again, whipping by so fast I can barely keep track. That’s another thing you don’t find out about aging until you get there: the sheer speed of it. Weeks used to take, well, weeks to go by and now they are gone before you even really notice they are there. And then when you look back they seem to have happened to another person, far away. Time is fleeting, in other words, and I’ve got to . . . take control.

Sunday, April 26, Harvey and I went for a short walk near the Forestry department. Monday, April 27, my feral, unkillable, malevolent but beautiful back porch rose is in bloom for the first time this year. Tuesday, April 28, that’s the garden by the driveway; it really only looks nice in spring, but oh, in spring it is just so amazing. Wednesday April 29 features Mr. Binks in the sun in that same driveway. Thursday, April 30, I left work early to start my mini vacation and went. . . to the dump! Whooo! Livin’ large! I actually am fascinated by the dump and the seagulls and the whole. . thing. It’s incredibly gross but also, whoa. Look at all that horrible trash! On Friday, May 1, I took Harvey for a long morning walk and made a little triptych of the elk and the river. On Saturday, May 2 Harvey and I repeated that walk with Four. This is cheating, a little, because I didn’t take anything with the good camera, so I’m using a Friday photo and calling it Saturday. In a year or two I will no longer care one iota about this. Possibly much sooner. On Sunday, May 3, we drove down the coast to Lincoln City and this is the famous place in hmmm I think it is Nehalem Bay? Or Tillamook Bay? Anyway it is so beautiful and I usually don’t stop but because it was my birthday trip I did, and took a ton of pictures with all the cameras. Maybe I will swap this one out for film some day. Then on Monday, May 4, my birthday, here are technicolored starfish eating mussels and I love them so much. On Tuesday, May 5 I was back and walking the sawmill trail with Harvey. Wednesday, May 6 was Trantlerfest which is an odd little arts festival at the college where I work and the bubble guys were there. Thursday, May 7 I was extremely tired thanks to Trantlerfest (I am also ridiculously tired right now, thanks to Four, who woke up at the crack of dawn – and I think allergies are making me very tired these days) and thus Thursday, May 8 was a small walk by the other side of the airport. Friday, May 9 I went to a meeting at the MERTS campus and walked right into some kind of fire departments training exercise that looked like so much fun. Pretty much all the fire departments in the area were there, competing with hoses to push that ball back and forth on a rope. Which brings us to the weekend and today, which was the Master Gardeners Plant Sale and this is my haul. Now I have to go plant it all. Or I have to go to sleep, which would be better, but I am extremely caffeinated.