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Swollen Creek - The little babbling brook in St. Helens I used to catch crawdads in. It's not babbling at the moment.
Backyard Battle - How would you like this in your backyard? This is the view from Columbia City, about four miles north of St. Helens on Highway 30. This ship wasn't on the way to a battle, though. It was returning its crew from Portland and a little Rose Festival shore leave.
Street
Fountains -
These public drinking fountains are common around the downtown area
in Portland.
Neighborfair
- This was a great festival celebrating strong neighborhood identity
and ethnic communities in Portland. I don't know if it is still being
held.
Paramount
- The Paramount sign on Broadway was replaced by the Portland sign
that is there now.
Three
Bridges -
Portland is a city of bridges, here are three of them.
Zooliner
- Nifty-cool train that takes you from the zoo, through Washington
park, to the Rose Test Garden and the Japanese Garden.
The
Old OMSI - This
was taken when OMSI was at its old site on top of the hill near the
zoo.
Mt.
St. Helens from North Portland
- The eruption of Mt. St. Helens.
I was home for Thanksgiving 1998, and hooked up with Kerry and Tom to ride the MAX light rail through Beaverton and Portland, stopping whenever we felt like something needed to be investigated.
View
from the top - This was
supposed to be the boys showing off the city we love from the top of
the US Bank tower, but didn't quite work out because of the
reflections off of the window from the inside. I salvaged this
composite from the experience, though.
Powell's
Technical Bookstore - Geeks
drawn to tech mecca?
Powell's
city of books - Too bad the
entire freakin' world has discovered Powell's. The entire yuppie
population of the western US was there that day -- It kind of spoils
the quiet "church of books" feel it used to have.
Uncontrollable
hopping - Tom deep in the
throes of one of his chronic hopping fits.
Patrons
of the arts - The boys deeply
appreciate all art forms.
Monkeys
see - Tragically, life does
occasionally imitate art.
24
Hour Church of Elvis - We were
on a mission
Portal
to another dimension - What
happened beyond this point is too terrible to tell (and you would
never believe it).
Pioneer
Courthouse Square - Tom and
Kerry increase entropy where ever they go.
Lloyd
Center - All decked out for
Christmas.
MAX
emerges - This is the zoo
station deep underground.
Nice
ride - This clean, convenient,
safe, cheap transportation thing will never catch on.
After a full day, Tom
and Kerry
were ready to go home.
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