2017 started out coooold, at least for us Portlanders. Not a lot of travel, other than frequent trips between PDX and our forest in Canyonville. And now Joy and Bongani have joined me and Elise in PDX! Below is a gallery of 2017 images; click on any image for more info and a slideshow.
2017 began as 2016 ended...coooold! And new construction next door.
Then we got these great (and terrifying) icicles from the freeze/thaw in January.
We hosted another riparian replanting day on Alder Creek Community Forest in February, with helpers of all sizes.
Our Intro ENVS class Skyping with the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts.
Our forest in Canyonville was lovely this last year. Here it is still quiet at the start of spring.
The bark of Pacific madrone, a mainstay in our mixed coniferous forest.
New ideas presented in April to our ACCF board for a future garden!...stay tuned.
Sister Mary in between houses last spring, soon relocating to Tacoma to assume grandmother duties (and lots more).
John and I continue to teach Kojosho at Lewis & Clark; here are our students from spring.
Lewis & Clark students presenting spring projects at a poster celebration.
The new arrivals in PDX: Joy and Bongani! Here's their stuff, which made it before them.
Joy at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm south of PDX, scheming garden bulbs!
Our 2017 ENVS senior class celebrating their hard work.
Mom loved the wildflowers in our forest, and there were many this spring...this one aptly named Elegant Cat's Ear.
Less elegant but a huge accomplishment on our forest: Bongani helped me dig a ditch all the way up the hill for future fire/irrigation tanks.
Alas, no international trips for me this year! But Elise, Joy, and Bongie toured France...and Joy's job took her overseas all year (follow her on Instagram).
Apple Valley, New Mexico, site of our Kojosho headquarters and annual Memorial Day weekend camp.
I did a workshop on my new EcoTypes project at a conference in Tucson in June.
We were lucky to have two of our ENVS students attend the annual Breakthrough Dialogue; here we are running in Marin Headlands.
The newest star of the extended family is Vivian, here with dad Colin in Seattle.
Joy and Bongani got right into PDX, including the 4th of July silent disco event on the new Tilikum Crossing.
Elise and I are working on a book!...her part is the illustrations.
Buffalo digital scholarship conference: what we do small at LC, others do big time worldwide.
Late July hike to Duffy Lake in OR Cascades, just before the terrible fires broke out; here are Elise and brother Bob.
Elise on Duffy Lake. I did my usual swim-around-the-lake ritual, and relaxed for the first time this summer.
Mary and son Peter (Colin's brother) near Duffy Lake.
We stayed just one night, but witnessed all sorts of light on the lake.
(Early AM camping pictures aided by deflated air mattress...as Bob says, sleeping is not why one goes camping...)
Some new interpretive signs along ACCF trails on our forest in Canyonville, many next to puzzles like this twisted tree trunk.
And speaking of twisted!...look up at those two friendly trees.
We also completed a sign of common ACCF animals/plants. We've seen all of them!
Our cousin Marcia visited in August; the forest fires had started in OR but the awful Columbia Gorge fire hadn't yet, thus this smoky but not incendiary view.
Marcia with her cousins Bob and Mary at our bathhouse in Canyonville.
Here is the fire tank pipe and our handy little Canyonville tractor doing its trusty balancing act.
Where were you on Aug 21? I was grateful to be in PDX training a new ENVS admin, but we did join the eclipse watching party on the LC lawn.
Bongie and our friend Siphiwe (traveling all the way from Swaziland!) with Joy in PDX.
They came to celebrate Elise's 30th birthday, with party orchestrated by party planner/party girl Joy-Joy.
I worked with a talented group of six digital scholarship peer tutors in fall, here helping out a fellow student.
30 short years ago I started a little Kojosho school as a new grad student in Berkeley. Here we are this fall, with our chief instructor Fred Absher, his partner Dona, and my fellow instructor Mike at a celebratory 2-day workout in the Berkeley hills.
Vivian came down with parents Naomi and Colin to cheer me up after minor elbow surgery in October; thanks Vivian!
Our Environmental Affairs Symposium theme this year is Environmental Engagement in Tough Times. Here we are at our keynote conversation co-organized with Oregon Humanities, titled Growth in Portland: Whose Livability?
Another change taking place in the neighborhood is that I will be selling my condo in early 2018, and buying a house for the Proctor tribe in PDX...farewell, NW District!
While we're talking 2018, here is what awaits me in early January: that there image is a torn rotator cuff, finally to be fixed.
John and (most of) our great Kojosho PE class students this fall at Lewis & Clark...a nice break from the classroom.
Colin and Naomi invited everyone to Seattle for Thanksgiving; here are Bongani, Joy, and Elise.
And here is Vivian!...fun to see the greater Proctor clan bloom.
I recorded 42 simple song podcasts in 2016-17, mostly originals. A new site (jimproctor.us) will share my professional and other work in 2018; you can currently find all songs there. Wishing us all inspiration for the new year!