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 …
Category Archives: Living
The Bicyclist!
This is a true Oregonian. All decked out in proper biking clothes. The helmet, gloves, jacket, tight-pants, shoes that can hold the pedals. And his bike was no where in sight, he was just walkin’ down the street. They are everywhere dressed like this, or some variation on this theme. Many years ago …
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 …
Note To Self
Do not mention the rain today. Spoke with a couple of dear friends in the City today and they are cold, and the windchill is making it feel colder, and the streets are full of Superbowl fans, and the weather is bringing snow etc etc etc. So what’s a little wetness and 42 degrees.
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 …
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 …