For me I think pictures taken around the house are a cop out. I want to get out and take pictures of the world! But Cousin John turned me on to Plastic Rocket, an iPhone app mimicking cheap plastic cameras, and I had to try it out. Today’s picture and tomorrow’s picture are my experiments with it, taken around the house (in the back yard, to be specific).
Pretty cool!
Another shot of Portland’s working waterfront.
Eliphalet Clark was apparently one of the very earliest homeopathic physicians in the United States. Here’s one link.
This house, presumably where Dr Clark based his practice here in Portland, is in our neighborhood (Deering). I’ve often wondered about it.
Saw this amazing flower garden on the roof of the house’s porch on the walk home (in the rain) this evening.
We’re having one of our porch posts replaced in the next week or so, depending on the rain, and I’m now kind of thinking about having all four porch pillars rebuilt so as to support something like this.
(If this is your house… nicely done!)
We had the rental car (see previous day’s post) for two days. The second day we drove up the Columbia River Gorge, stopping at all the fantastic touristy vistas and other places, including every waterfall, small and large, along the Historic Columbia River Highway. Anyone driving behind us that day… well, if you were trying to get somewhere… sorry.
This is the rather famous Vista House located on Crown Point overlooking the gorge.
Oldie from our fantastic trip in 2007 to the “other” Portland in Oregon.
We rented a car and took a day trip out route 26 to the coast. (Aaron and the Hicks family will play Michael Stipe and tell me whether I can’t get there from here… I think it was 26…) This was at Cannon Beach. It was a little bit nippy, if I remember right, but it was sunny, great for hanging out on the beach and for flying a kite. I don’t have a picture of it, but there were horses on the beach too.
Need to go back!
Somewhat boring picture (hey! hey! it’s okay for me to say some pictures in the site are boring, and in fact I know which ones are the boring ones!) of Back Cove. Ah, well.
The weather was fantastic. The walk home around Baxter Boulevard was great. And you probably don’t want to see a picture I took of the house and its new bright yellow paint I took sitting in the back yard eating an apple afterwards, do you?
(That new paint looks great when the sun’s low!)
