We’ve been in our new apartment and home for some 8 weeks now, and things are pretty much settled. We have only a couple of boxes to empty, but they’re filled with books and we’re having space problems because I sold too many of our bookcases on Craigslist in our initial downsizing. So much for serious planning.

I commented early on, as in the first couple of days, that we were amazed with how many people greeted us by name so early in our residency, and how many invites we got to dinner and a sit-down over wine in those early days. I suggested that there must be some form of communications network for people to know who we were in those early days. It remained a mystery until last night as I was dropping off to sleep, that yes, there in fact is a communications network that shares information about newbies to this place – It’s in the form of a binder with a bio of every person who lives in Cascade Manor with a photograph of everyone accompanying that information – we in fact cooperated before we moved in by submitting a head-shot of ourselves specifically for that binder. And, I forgot all about it.

Yesterday I was roaming around campus with my camera for an assignment a group of us photographers gave ourselves of shooting outdoor architecture, and I was seeking examples of that in the architecture of the buildings of Cascade Manor. I encountered a woman who greeted me by name and complimented me on my photography. As an artist herself she said she appreciated the artistic eye I have with my work. At the time I wondered how she knew my name, and how she knew about my photography, but then she mentioned that she’s followed my submissions to the local Cascade Manor post of sharing photography where I’ve been sharing my macro-photography with flowers. Then it made sense. It wasn’t till I was dozing off last night, though, that I figured out how she knew it was me she’d run into…