Category Archives: Eccentrics
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.
This I Do Not Understand
In the Oregonian, are advertisements for children in search of foster care homes. It reminds me of advertisements for pets. It feels absolutely inappropriate. Can anyone enlighten me on this.
The Streetcars
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 …
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 …
Embraced
This fire plug is entirely embraced by the tree next to which it was placed. There is a small sign saying that the hydrant is not operative. The dark [sorry] picture was an attempt to show how big the tree is.
And What is a Growler?!
It Ain’t the Establishment
Or is it? Popped into a non-starbucks coffee shop, and there is one either on every corner, or in the corner of every vacant lot for drive in. This cast of characters is the norm.
Super-Star Mother
She watched as her adult son and daughter-in-law boarded the train in suburban CT, bound for the City. As he stepped over the gap between the platform and the train, the pants on the hanger from the cleaners slipped off their perch and disappeared into the abyss below. As his eyes registered his horror and …
Hair
Hair on the floor, under the seat of a subway car at 11 pm. Not a lot, a nice curved six inch pony tail ball in a lovely muted red color. We had boarded the ‘A’ train at the beginning of the run at 207th, and didn’t notice is at first. While chatting, at around …