4162 It's Friday, and another bit of Old Portland goes away. At 816 SE 122nd Avenue there has been a old-school Portland dive bar called...

4161 While the process grinds forward on the redux of Interstate Bridge 2.0, the process is rolling along quite smoothly on the planning to ...

4160 Tom McCall Waterfront Park stretches along the left bank of the Willamette in the center of Portland for over a mile. It not only is Po...

4159 ... and just what is a woonerf? How about a chamfer, for that matter? Everett, Washington is taking a number of approaches to revitaliz...

4158 Today, we go abstract and zoom in so that the building faces presenting themselves to me, from my POV on the Burnside Bridge. Just a pi...

4157 Certain people trying to get a rise out of you will insist that Portland is not only burning, but in ashes now.  It gets them fans. On ...

4155 It's the sign on the White Stag Block. We all know about this one. Began life as the sign for White Stag Sportswear; became Made...

4155 Well, not a Spanish dancer, strictly speaking. And not just one. One of the delights of the Multnomah County Fair a few weeks back was...

4154 This is a view of the first city of Oregon, Oregon City, from the balcony of the city elevator. The date is March, 2014. Oregon City be...

4153 Another picture that grabbed my attention as I strolled through my photo archives. Dateline? Early September, 2020. The Beachie Creek F...

4152 I was taking a stroll through my photo archives ( have I really been taking amateur pictures for that long? ) and I found this photo I...

4151 This is the plane in the previous photo, just lifting off from runway 10L-28R, headed, for the moment, into the west, bound for parts k...

4150 The plane taxiing in front of the PDX control tower/parking garage/terminal is a British Airways jet, which was a pleasant surprise - w...

4149 Recently my spouse and me were driving along Marine Drive alongside PDX, like we do, and we pulled aside to watch a jet taxi and take o...

4148 Last missive, I posted a look out the portal window of the gazebo in the middle of Tsuru Island. This is what it looks like if you step...

4147 Another stop by Tsuru Island. A couple of little cozy bits. Reviewing these pictures brings a sort of peace, and tells me one thing abo...

4146 The Polar King is dead; long live the Polar King. Well, maybe that's a little melodramatic.  There is a magnificent diner at the...

4145 I was about two months ago years old when I found out about Gresham's Japanese Garden. The fact that it exists at all is because of...

4144 Now may I present to you just over a minute of video of the demo of the robotics projects at the Mulntomah County Fair this last weeken...

4143 The most unexpected home craft I found in the exhibits at the Multnomah County Fair were the place settings. Here were traditional old-...

4142 The real charming heart of the Multnomah County Fair was the exhibits, and it was here that the classic County Fair charm was in full e...

4141 We went to the fair on Saturday, which is a very very Memorial Day Weekend thing to do. But it was in Oregon's smallest and most ...

4140 Near the end of Stark Street, after it starts to hug the face of the bluff above the Sandy River, there's a viaduct that one will l...

4139 This is Halsey Street in Fairview, looking west during the golden hour of local sunset.  

4138 Back in 1920 they employed skillful cartographers with definite artistic skills to create illustrative maps with beautiful physical for...

4137 Thanks to a dear friend from my distant past and current future, today I stumbled on something I didn't know I wanted to know but a...

4136 before I delve into this 1920 geography and its aged delights, I wanted to show you all what I found in the inside front cover and also...

4135 Here's us, and by us I mean we in the USA, in the year 1920, and how we trained our schoolchildren to look out upon the burgeoning...

4134 Up on Steelhammer Road, on the east side of Silverton, is the house I grew up in for most of my childhood in Silverton, which is at the...

4133 The highway along the Cascade Piedmont, Hwy 213, sometimes has a surreal aesthetic to it. I mean, the highway winds along side the hill...

4132 On South Water, in Silverton, at the end of the park that centers on the Library, there's a building that looks quite a bit like an...

4131 They have to be. We still don't have subways here in Smug Transit Town, USA. Seen some months ago, westbound on Division at the I-2...

4130 Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for that warm fall afternoon last year, when we larked to Silverton and stumbled into the Sidewak Shin...

4129 There's much murally goodness at 162nd and Stark. Those adventurous enough to venture round back of the 76 Station at the corner ca...

4128 Village Square is a shopping center at the corner of SE 162nd and Stark, where Portland meets Gresham. It was probably built some time ...