Realizing that I have not mentioned the streetcars in Portland, I attempted to photograph a couple today, while driving. By this blank page, you may surmise I was not successful. What I wanted you to see is how “Vienna”, old-world-movie these ‘people movers’ make the city streets look. The streetcars, hooked together, glide on their …
Category Archives: City views
And This Means…
This is on the street. Not all streets, just some. In front of my car. These iconic signs are supposed to be translatable to anyone. Does this mean, park your bicycle in the attic of your house? Only if your rear tires blow? Only if it is a ‘boys’ bike?
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 …
An Expert
Am becoming one about the weather. Schools were still closed here today, and nothing much in the way of snow, disappeared over night, so decided that around 1 pm would start the digging out process. I actually like shoveling snow. Hate vacuuming, but snow shoveling is satisfying because you can see what you have accomplished. …
Fading Fast
Not the snow, but my belief that this will be gone enough in 24 hours from the time of these photos last night, for this city to function on Monday. I am holding my breath.
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 …
Portland!
The downtown place: Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and all those tree-named streets and alphabetically named streets [on the ‘other side’ of Burnside]. During the weekdays, it is a city. There are pedestrians, who wait for ‘walk’ and stop at ‘talk to the hand’. There is a ‘rapid transit- trolley’ system and a bus system, one way …
Comparison
In the City, I spend time and money visiting various types of eating places. In this city it is time and money spent at gas stations. Have a favorite one, in Lake Oswego, after making quite a sampling.
Give Credit.
Where credit is due. It has been 5 days with sunshine in the day! It is wonderful. This is a different place when you can see the landscape illuminated! Delights my soul. And not only is Mount Hood just right there, but a bit farther off is the expired volcano, Mount Saint Helens, which blew …
Minding Your Own Business
and then it appears!