Category Archives: Portland

Underwood Holiday Letter –   December 2023 

Posted on December 17, 2023 by june

            Greetings Friends, Another year full of visitors and flowers, a few trips, a rich life. Here are a few tidbits in images as well as words. During a February snow, we got to see the back yard in an … Continue reading →

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Underwood Holiday Letter – December 2022

Posted on December 20, 2022 by june

Greetings Friends, Gardens, gardening, gardeners – that filled up 2022, beautifully. Landscaping experts Kyla and Geraldo helped us plant bulbs (around 500 of them) as well as boxes of annuals and pots of perennials. The old ash tree out front … Continue reading →

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U-Wood’s 2021 Holiday Letter

Posted on December 26, 2021 by june

Covid-19 upended any plans we might have had for out-of-state trips in 2021. We stayed home, mostly, though we visited Oregon friends and places, and a few visitors from afar made brief appearances. And our close neighbors were constant companions. … Continue reading →

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U-Wood Holiday Letter, 2020

Posted on December 18, 2020 by june

Hi Friends, The preposterous decoration above was a present from Ron and Janet Lunde some years ago. We call it the Squeaver, part squirrel and part beaver. Illuminated at night by an internal light string, it is part of our … Continue reading →

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The Pad, or How I Am Spending My Pandemic

Posted on May 27, 2020 by june

The post prior to this one was written on March 6, 2020, from the middle of a cactus forest near Tucson,  Arizona. It was about then that things for us changed. We had been watching the new virus spread rapidly … Continue reading →

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