When was it that someone awoke one morning and said, ‘Let’s hook the buckets together. They won’t shred like the plastic covered hoops, they fold up on each other for transport…’ Necessity is the mother of invention
Category Archives: Architecture
Boot Scrapers
These are two examples of several along one tree-lined street in the village. Obviously when the street was unpaved, it was necessary to have a way to scrape off the mud prior to stepping into the entry hall. They are on both sides of the stairs.
Transition
And there is was, on the way away from the Coast, a solitary bridge, leading to nowhere. So I drove in. And then out. The sign states that Portland is 139 miles and San Francisco is 750. I wonder who cared, when. …
Spirit Mountain Casino
This picture is better and more complete than anything I could take, and I did try. This Casino/Hotel sits on First Nation Land in the hamlet of Grande Ronde, Oregon. Have passed through here, on the two lane highway all of my childhood on the way to the Coast. Now there is a …
At A Friend’s House:
The Blues Brothers
Spotted along the side of the road, in a recessed parking lot, in Sheridan Oregon. Go figure. It was right before the traffic sign for the turn off to Roy Rodgers Road.
The Odds?
This evening, meet up with Ann for a glass of wine. We head to 23rd Street. 23rd is a very hip, popular place in Portland. It starts at the bottom of hill called ‘Vista’ and a street ‘Burnside’ and runs, so to speak, all the way to the banks of the Willamette River. And I …
What Can I Say
http://www.oregonlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2014/02/portland_snow_traffic_fails_se.html No one apparently believes the weatherman here, too many calls of ‘wolf’. But today he got his comeuppance. Went out this a.m. to meet my niece Stephanie at my alma mater – a building new to me, with pictures of the past graduates lining the hall. She wanted me to see the picture which …
Give Me a Home…
…not a tiny apartment but a large kitchen, and more living space and I will find ways to fill up time unintentionally rearranging and ‘fixing’. Not a habit I want to return to, but certainly fun for a time. But what a lot of time it takes.