UPDATE and someone else I noticed while out and about on Saturday

UPDATE: Still not much energy or appetite but, thankfully, still less pain. I'm making it, y'all. Thanks for your continued prayers, love, and concern.



Once the long freight train started going by, I couldn't stop watching. I love trains! When I noticed this woman stretching, I figured that I could get a good photo, too. Lucked out, now that I've cropped it and added some fill light so that you are better able to see it. I like how it looks like the guy is holding the American flag when, in reality, it is painted on the side of the locomotive. Serendipity!

Creative Problem Solving, #2

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Richard's bicycle came up with a flat tire on its rear wheel as he rode near Sublimity, Oregon, on Sunday afternoon, September 8. I just happened to have pulled off in the gravel nearby to take a photo when I noticed him sitting on the railroad ties used to separate the parking area from the grassy area. I pulled closer and asked if all was well, and he told me yes and smiled. I told him that I have sons so I felt compelled to check, then I asked if I could take his photo and put him on my blog. He smiled again and gave me permission. I told him my blog's name and wished him a good ride the rest of the beautiful afternoon. He agreed that it was a wonderful day in Oregon.  I did not ask if he had walked along for a while with the flat tire or if it had happened just before he arrived at this spot on the highway. I did know that I had carefully passed him not long before. So, here's Richard, creatively solving the problem of having somewhere to sit while he changed his flat tire.

Seen on the corner of SW Madison St. at SW 4th Ave.

Oh, to be young again. To be able to ride a bicycle in those high heels, without wearing a helmet. Not!

Hollywood Farmers Market, July 7, 2012

Just a bit of what I saw at the market, clockwise from the top: Rainier cherries, tomatoes, flowers (and a flower-covered bicycle and its owner, wine, triplets along for the ride, cabbages and onions.