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We're off on a short family-oriented road trip this week; I'll tell you a bit more about destination and motivation later. For now, I still have a few more photos I haven't shown you from my wanderings-with-camera in Portland two weeks ago.

I love the combination of plants in this window box -- might try to pull some of these elements onto our smaller deck. I especially like that sharp green of the small evergreens with the glaucous/blue-green of what I think is Dusty Miller/ senecio, all as backdrop to the purple pansies. . . 

We have nowhere we could imitate this gorgeous stonework, but if we were still living at the beach, I'd be gathering little pebbles and arranging them in mosaic patterns. They remind me of the stunning work we trod on in Barcelona five years ago. . . 

The mosaic above lives in such a pretty neighbourhood -- in Nob Hill, Portland, Oregon. Beautiful, well-maintained heritage houses surrounded by charming gardens that stretched to the sidewalk, a generous gift to passers-by, especially on a sunny day in March. . .

 Signs like this were ubiquitous in Portland. This garden already appealed to me with its well-tended generosity, its sense of creative plenitude, a deceptively contained sprawl of pinks and greens, fragrance (that daphne odora!), texture, colour, variety of heights. . . But the sentiment of that sign, its gentle assertion of steadfast politics based on kindness, I found very welcoming, very reassuring.

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More mosaic work, and a shadow-portrait of yours truly. . .

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I remember the thrill of that sunshine, that sense of full spring, the way it will yield to summer warmth. We're back to cooler temperatures here at home (and Portland switched back to rainy, grey, and cool while we were still there), with grey, rainy days the expectation for most of this week. But check my Instagram feed to see that Pater and I had our first bike ride of the year (together, that is, he's been out a few times already, solo) along the seaside route in gloriously sunny (still nippy, but sunny) weather on Saturday. And at least one of the mason bees decided it was warm enough to break out of his cocoon. . . .

But my cousin, who lives in the interior of BC, posted on Facebook this morning that he woke to see at least 15 centimetres of new snow on the ground, snow still falling heavily enough for him to guess there could be another 15 by mid-morning. April can be very, very moody. . . What's it up to you in your neighbourhood? 

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