28 May 2021

Signs to Wonders

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Well, maybe not stupendous wonders. But they're the background of my life, these place names. I find poetry in the way they scan.


This sign gantry surmounts the east end of the Ross Island Bridge. a quick offramp puts you on the road to Oregon City and eventually Salem, and the straight way puts you on the road to Wy'east. This would have been near the beginning of what we would have called the Mount Hood Freeway, except that Neil Goldschmidt and the freeway revolt happened and we have MAX and whatnot now.

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