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 …

More The Bus

And the bus drivers:  I have heard Denzel Washington, James Earl Jones, Oprah announcing the next stops.  And I have seen the doubles for Denzel, Whitney, and Roseanne Barr driving the busses.  These persons are courteous, sane, competent and now and then especially humorous.  One recent evening, I was dressed upper-west-side to attend a YCA …

What Do You Think?

She boarded the bus but I did not pay her attention except to notice she was well dressed and that she sat down behind me.  A stop later the bus driver turned around in his chair and said ‘Miss, would you come here please’. He was looking right at me. I pointed to myself, ‘Me’ …