A day rerouted...

This afternoon it was a little overcast but looked like a nice enough day to go for a small hike or play a bit of frisbee golf. Instead when I pulled in to the parking lot, a nice young man informed me that my car was dragging large parts of plastic as I pulled in. Sure enough... the protector on the bottom of the car was half off the frame.

As a result, I only got in half a hike before I felt guilty and headed back down the hill to my car to see how bad it was. After driving home and calling my grandfather, I realized I could crawl under my car and fix it myself. Should have figured it out earlier but at least its taken care of now. Wasn't able to get much done but at least it wasn't worse.

View from the top of the hill looking down at the parking lot.

Its amazing that it could be so gray in the valley and so beautiful above.

View from the valley (its grayness)... it was beautiful but also so dark.

All in all, it was a pleasant day, but I do wish the car thing would have been resolved earlier.

Settling in for winter...

One of my favorite parts of getting ready for winter is fall but it seems fall has been short-lived this year. I didn't have much time for leaf hunting and as such here is one of the few pictures from my most recent trip to Seattle. Alas, it will be one of the only ones from this fall.
Many changes are in store in the near future. Our branch structure is being reorganized at work and so I am in the process of interviewing for either a new position or a new position. I'm a little worn out with all the changes which has been taking its toll on many of us. I thought this would be a good time to post pictures of where I work. These are the ones that did not make it to our website final design.


I'm not sure how this building in particular came to be one of the larger buildings in Eugene but it certainly is. We don't really have a downtown so to speak like normal cities. There is a little row of shops and restaurants on 5th Street and there is a little cluster of shops in buildings near us off Broadway but many things have left downtown.

This is just for fun and nostalgia. This picture is a view from my favorite Seattle restaurant - India Bistro in Ballard. Margot and I recently had lunch while I was looking for pictures of things to carve (I'm working on a new set of pannels for the living room walls and trying to find something interesting to attempt).

At the prompting of several friends, I am looking at selling some of my photography. I've setup a small flier and now need to read up on metadata and digital methods. Its a little overwhelming. So, we'll see but its a fun idea and something I dearly love.

I've also got several projects going right now that need to be completed this winter and I'm trying to find time and space to do them will all the other changes happening. Right now the short list is as follows:

• use spare yard to create new granny squares blanket (I've been loving the yarn I used on a couple of recent projects and now need to get it completed)
• Finish putting together scrapbook from miscellaneous pictures occupying my living room floor
• Decide on photography business and how much work/ effort I want to put into it
• Finish this silly pile of books on my living room table (one down several to go!)

These are the silly little items on my list. There are several bigger "life projects" that need to happen but I'm still battling them out. I suppose those will be interesting topics for reflection later but in the meantime... winter is certainly on its way.