Oh, October:)

Swirly leaves and crisp mornings and dramatic clouds, evenings that call for tea, apples on the counter — as always, fall conspires to steal my heart. And gosh, what a crazy beautiful fall this year. It’s impossible not to take the long way everywhere. Work at the zoo via Riverview …

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Bicycle Tour Magic

  Let me set the stage: I’m stuck on the west side of the Hawthorne Bridge while the Portland Spirit — our resident cruise ship — slo-o-o-o-o-owly glides under the raised middle. The closed road gates insistently beep-beep-beep-beep-beep until the sound becomes, I’m pretty sure, a permanent fixture of my …

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