My Neighborhood

I live in a floating home, in a moorage, in a city. It’s the one place I have lived the longest since I left New York City, where I was born and raised. I fell in love with it because it met my desires to be in the country and in a city – and here I can do both at the same time. Being on the river has a very country feel to it. I often compare it to camping but with indoor plumbing. And heat. And Internet. And every store I need within quick driving distance.

But I am also in a city and I can be in the downtown area in a short time period.

MY NEIGHBORHOOD

My House

My house is what I call a 2-part home. The main structure and what is known as a tenderhouse.

My Moorage

This is a summer evening looking out at what I call my backyard.

Part of My Garden

Everything I grow has to be in pots. These are my nasturtiums and some of my other plants in the back with the dog sniffing them.

My Dog

No part of my life here can be presented without a picture of Tova. She loves living here, playing tennis, and being able to walk along the levee.

But as with most places in my life, I move on. The pandemic has shown me that I don’t want to live here anymore. Which surprised me. I want a backyard. I want a big garden. I want a different kind of lifestyle and neighborhood. And that will happen.

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02/09/2021

Backyard Photography

10/01/2014

Healthy Eating With Your Own Plants

lettuce In the summer, I try to avoid supermarket produce.

Fresh picked foods are so much better for you.

And it is so easy to grow mesclun fresh lettuce, mesclun, cilantro and other greenery in containers.

My neighbors and I have limited space and no gardens – but we grow almost everything imaginable in our containers.

Last year I added some dwarf fruit trees and my Meyer lemon has a few tiny lemons – YUM

meyer lemon

Lack of space is not excuse for not having fresh vegetables to pick and eat!

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07/12/2012

Listen to the birds!

Often I sit and listen to the sounds around me.

Sometimes it's an F-15 or 2, more often it's one of the many airplanes taking off from PDX, the traffic I hear from I-5 and Marine Drive, or the water critters and pets that live here.

None of this is bothersome to me as I love the sounds of cities.

But every once in a while it's just the birds in this tree. And for whatever reason, the other sounds are not in the background at all!

Listen to my birds with me in the video below.