It is time to leave Portlandia, PDX, on an early morning flight, at the airport at 6:00 a.m. It is time to think about boarding and I return to the gate from whence I was, and at that moment, a text. “Where are you?” For the moment I have forgotten that “Trotter”/Caleb from The Mousetrap …
Category Archives: History
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. …
More Clouds and Scenes
On the drive to the Coast. The mostly two lane road is often a corridor of pines. – in the early morning fog. The sun then breaks through and the winding road continues past orchards or adjacent to river and stream beds …
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 …
The Box
February 14th I wrote about Ann from the U of O and Gamma Phi Beta time [just a while back] gifting me a freesia plant in a box of antiquity that I had given her in the good ole days. So the question is, what to do with the box as I leave Portland. I …
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 …
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 …
Finally!
An Oregonian, this evening explained that a ‘growler is: http://beeradvocate.com/articles/384/ http://beergrowler.com/?gclid=CNrKwdnItLwCFaY1Qgodhy4AjA
Generous
It is absolutely touching and heart warming when friends come to The Mousetrap. Last evening: Ann and Tommie and Kathleen and Gordon. Thank you so very much. I know you had a long, long drive over the mountains to get here and I am so very appreciative of the time and expense to come to …
Terrific!
Imagine, 8 of us having lunch, from a class of 30 from which 4 have already passed on. We are a bunch! We were a compatible class then, and we still enjoy each other’s company sooo many years later. Thank you each one for making the time to get together. The talk? Well, the fems …