Toe the line

While laminating the pages of The Athena Press, the ladies had to be precise and line things up exactly right. This meant not only watching to prevent wrinkles and folds, but also making sure there was enough distance between the pages for a border of plastic, but not too much to be wasteful.

The Athena Press

Monday I visited with volunteers laminating 100-year-old pages of The Athena Press.

Kayla Durfee and Deborah Johns put in several hours' work at the machine. The pair operated much like a machine themselves, sorting, aligning and feeding pages into the laminator, and rolling pages as they come out.

Melting

I took these photos Saturday when everything started melting. I did this from the safety of my dry porch. It wasn't until late afternoon that I was able to safely leave the house without shoe chains or ski poles.

A lot of ice collected on the rose bushes in our front yard.

Frozen

Yes! I am back!

The recent ice storm has inspired me to take photos, and post on my blog again.

The last few months have been busy, and it's hard to make time for the little things.

Speaking of little things, I took this photo on one of my haphazard walks to work last week. One of my neighbors has a cute little sapling, that had one cute little red berry left . The ice perfectly encased it, as if coated in glass. The dim light made it hard to catch, and this is my best effort.

Protest

As I said before, I spent a bit of time with the protestors at the Nixyaawii Governance Center on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

I didn't spend the night, though I commend those who did. When I spoke with them Wednesday morning, my car temperature gauge read 18 degrees. I think it was about 10 degrees warmer the second morning.

Though it was a short occupation, about four days, it was still interesting to see people out and talking about what they are passionate about.

Sunrise

I spent much of last week visiting the protestors at the Umatilla Indian Reservation. I heartily respect the fact they spent some of the coldest nights this year with little shelter other than a sleeping bag or heavy blanket. They said they watched shooting stars and listened to coyotes sing.

Happy Halloween!

I visited the Harris Jr. Academy Fall Festival on Saturday. Here are two photos — Spiderman vs. a storm trooper in a pillow fight and a witch riding a mechanical bull — I took in addition to the one that ran in Sunday's paper.